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This blog is written by the clinicians at Jonah Green and Associates, a mental health practice based in Kensington, MD that provides quality services for children, teens, families, and adults. It is intended as a resource for families who are seeking to expand their knowledge about mental health and mental health services, and also as a resource for families who are seeking quality mental health services, especially in the mid-Atlantic region.

Regulating Your Dysregulated Child with Co-Regulation

Learning to de-escalate our emotions alongside our children’s escalating feelings is the most essential parenting skill we can learn.  Dysregulation calls for connection, and when kids dysregulate, we naturally correct them, thereby disconnecting.  We may cultivate short-term compliance but also disrupt our relationship with them and lose the opportunity to foster self-regulation skills.  When fear

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WHAT ON EARTH IS SPACE (TREATMENT)?

Developed by Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Center, SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is an evidence-based, parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. Parents meet with a SPACE-trained clinician to learn how to help their children by changing their behavior.  How Come the Program is

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Five Tips to Help Your Teen to Stop Procrastinating

We have all been there.  Putting off a significant project or work task or homework assignment that we don’t want to do.  Foolishly ignoring an upcoming deadline as if that will somehow make it disappear, when in fact, time still marches ahead.  And then, the overwhelming dread and panic as our deadline loom larger and

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Transitioning Children Back to School

After almost a year of virtual learning, children are starting their return to in-person school. There are many ways children may respond to this transition, and it can help connect with them to understand how they are feeling leading up to their first day back and as they continue to move into this new stage

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