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The Approximate Parent: Does My Teen Have Good Mental Health? (Chapter 9)
This is a portion of the larger work, The Approximate Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager. This edition contains the book’s introduction, the entirety of Chapter 9, endnotes for the chapter, index, permissions, and the “about the author” sections.In close to two decades working with youth, I’ve never been “Do you think my teen is mentally healthy?” Mental health cannot be solely addressed when things go wrong. Chapter 9 (“Does My Teen Have Good Mental Health?”) attempts to provide a framework for thinking about what makes your teen mentally healthy and how to support that good health. This chapter gives you the groundwork for working on your competency as a health scientist—a concept introduced in Chapter 1 of The Approximate Parent. It’s difficult to know how to approximate your goals if you don’t know what the goals are, beyond “surviving adolescence,” “having them be happy,” or “getting theminto college.” These are not bad goals; they are just not specific enough to give you a practical “theory for action” to support your teen’s good mental health. The information in this chapter will help you understand just what "good mental health" looks like for teenagers.
101 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 15, 2012
About the author
Michael Y. Simon
12 books3 followersMichael Y. Simon, LMFT is the author of
The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Oakland, California. Michael is a sought-after local and national speaker on the subjects of teens and families and has worked with thousands of children, youth and families since 1990. He served for many years as a high school counselor, ran or developed programs that directly served children from birth to 18 and taught psychology, philosophy and religious studies at several American universities.
Michael is also the founder of Practical Help for Parents —a support organization for parents, educators and mental health professionals who work daily in support of adolescents. Most importantly, he’s the proud parent of a sweet, kind, 26 year-old man who, as a teenager, couldn’t be bribed to write a paragraph, and as an adult, would like nothing more than to write for a living. How’s that for neural plasticity?
The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Oakland, California. Michael is a sought-after local and national speaker on the subjects of teens and families and has worked with thousands of children, youth and families since 1990. He served for many years as a high school counselor, ran or developed programs that directly served children from birth to 18 and taught psychology, philosophy and religious studies at several American universities.
Michael is also the founder of Practical Help for Parents —a support organization for parents, educators and mental health professionals who work daily in support of adolescents. Most importantly, he’s the proud parent of a sweet, kind, 26 year-old man who, as a teenager, couldn’t be bribed to write a paragraph, and as an adult, would like nothing more than to write for a living. How’s that for neural plasticity?
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