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Dr Angel Adams, Ph.D. and Clinical Psychologist for over 28 years,
reveals practical steps for parents to help their children and
teenagers beat depression.
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How To Help Your Child Beat Depression
by Dr Angel Adams

Do you know how to recognise if your child is depressed?

Do you want to know what practical steps you should take in order to
help your child or teenager steer off or overcome depression?

Dear Parent or Concerned One,

I know how hard it is for parents who discover their children are
suffering from depression.

What can you do when you find out your child is depressed?

Who do you go to for advice and understanding when you don't know what
to do?

How do you know what to say to your child when they tell you they are
feeling depressed or even suicidal?

When do you know for certain that your child is depressed if they just
won't talk to anyone about it?

If you went to your doctor for help, how would you know what to ask for
and to get someone to take you seriously?

My name is Dr Angel Adams and I have been a Clinical Psychologist
working with children for over 28 years.

In my practice in Kingston, Surrey, England I see many parents/carers
who have suffered for a long time because they found it difficult to
obtain the right kind of advice and support when they really needed it.

I am sure you have felt the same kinds of frustrations...
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... but you are not to blame!

With 28 years of practical psychology experience, even I couldn't find
anywhere that provided all the essential information in one simple,
easy-to-read, single location!

So that's why I decided to write this book for concerned parents and
carers just like yourself.

Written by both a clinical psychologist and a mother whose own teenager
suffered from depression, this book discusses in an open and readable
style the problems parents face in coping with a depressed child or
teenager.

It gives practical advice on recognising depression in
children/teenagers and offers essential tips on how you can cope with
the challenges.

It suggests several helpful ways you can treat your child's depression
and offers positive ways of working with the school to keep attendance
regular and structured by reviewing the timetable and reducing the load
of the school week and homework schedule.

It also gives strategies for parents to help manage their own life
effectively when living with a depressed child.

Here are just some of the many benefits you will receive from reading
this book:
* Learn how to recognise what are the true signs of depression in a
child or adolescent that is different from adults...
* Get advice on how to access a diagnosis and treatment.
* Get advice on dealing with your child's schooling during this
difficult time.
* Use the checklists to help you through the emotionally charged
interactions with doctors and teachers.
* Learn how to talk to your child about depression.
* Get practical tips on how to support your child through their
treatment--diet, exercise, changing their thinking, mindful
meditation, etc.
* Learn how to deal with any guilt you may carry and how to support
yourself emotionally and physically through this difficult time.
* Learn how to help your child change the voices of depression
(uninvited thoughts) in their head into voices that are more
loving, constructive, and happy!
* Get tips on how to help your child cope with dark moods and painful
emotions.
* Learn specific metaphors that you can use as an ally to help beat
your childās depression.
* Learn how to help your child change their behaviours and actions
first instead of trying to unravel them from their feelings
connected to the depression.
* Get tips on how to substitute praise and complements by using words
of encouragement and reflection to build self-esteem and more
confidence in your child.
* Learn how to help your child tolerate uncomfortable feelings and
become resilient in overcoming obstacles.
* Learn mindfulness strategies to help you and your child observing
negative thoughts in a non-judgmental way instead of attaching to
them.
* Get tips on how to use humour, smiling, and laughter to reduce
stress, make you and your child feel happier and closer to you.
* Learn how to be empathic to your childās emotions while
simultaneously keeping a loving perspective that is separated to
enable you to keep your energy unburdened, grounded and focused.

This book is the perfect resource to use while your child and family is
waiting for an appointment to see a specialist or as a non-medical
adjunct to treatment by a qualified helping professional.

Also, a portion of the sales from this ebook will go to the Depression
Alliance.

Yours,

Dr Angel Adams' signature

Dr Angel Adams, PhD.

Buy now
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INSIDE THIS E-BOOK:

This book is written in an engaging, non-academic style so you don't
need a psychology degree to understand it. It is concise enough to be
read in one sitting--so you can start implement the actions steps right
away--but is also jam-packed with lots of useful information to help
you and your child overcome and beat depression.

Chapter outline:

Chapter 1: What Does Depression Look Like From a Professional's View?

* Symptoms of Child Depression
* Why Do Children and Adolescents Feel Depressed?
* What Does Depression Look Like From a Parent's Point of View?
* Withdrawal and Isolation
* Anger and Tiredness
* Anxiety
* School Issues

Chapter 2: Practical Steps Visiting your General Practitioner in the first
Instance

* Questions that you may be asked
* What should you expect from the appointment?
* What you should know about treatment?

Chapter 3: Communication with the School

* Checklist
* Action Plan
* School Friends

Chapter 4: Practical Steps Before, During and After Professional Help

* Music as a Depression Buster
* Journaling
* How to Make a Vision Board
* The Role of Pets
* A Healthy Diet
* Physical activity
* Cooking together
* Enjoyable and Meaningful Activities
* Volunteer work
* Setting Aside Time
* Contact with friends
* Sleep & Bedtime Routine

Chapter 5: Using Thinking Skills

Chapter 6: Looking After You and Nurturing Yourself as a Parent.

* Meditation
* Keep a loving perspective
* Find an Outlet
* Put Yourself First In the Best Interest of your Child
* Reduce Stress: Increase Happiness
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FREE EXAMPLE STRATEGY

Here is a free example strategy taken from my e-book that you can start
using immediately:

How to Make a Vision Board of Hope and Potential

When children or teens are depressed they often have a lack of hope for
the future.

Teenage suicide and suicidal ideation is a profound expression of
hopelessness. It is often experienced as an overwhelming feeling that
what they do is never good enough and inside, they are never good
enough.

A vision board helps depressed children or adolescents to start
imagining their dreams and goals for the future. The very process of
making the vision board together will open a door for your child or
adolescent to talk about their experiences and to start to address the
negative thoughts that are in their head. Some teens may prefer to do
it completely on their own, but you will have plenty of grist for the
mill to talk about when you see their finished board.

The vision board can be a bulletin board or simply a white Styrofoam
board. The process is to make collages of photos, magazine clippings,
written affirmations, lines from poetry, and quotes which all represent
their "outcomes". They can also include special cards, letters, and
certificates, written by others that say positive things.

In the centre of the vision board should be a photo or picture of your
child or teen. It needs to show through their facial and body language
that they are feeling happy. We suggest the most recent photo if
possible. This reminds then where they were and they can be and feel
happy again. Revolving around this centre-piece are visual images of
goals that the child wants to achieve that will contribute to feeling
happy again. For example, feeling happy at school, having a closer
inner circle of friends, feeling joy and creativity, a special project
they want to be involved in, or their dream job or career in the
future.

It can also include other goals such as working somewhere, learning to
play an instrument, getting back to playing tennis again or another
sport, submitting their poems to magazines or designs to companies,
showing their artwork at exhibitions. It therefore is a mixture of
inner and outer manifestations that the child wants to create and new
beliefs that they want to install in their brain.

Help them to set their sights high; dream a little, but also be
realistic. They will need to show the visual manifestations of what
they want in each of these four areas:
1. School
2. Sports/activities
3. Family life
4. Social life.

Examples include making new friends, improving their sport, getting
something they really want, or finding a boyfriend or girlfriend.

They think about what they want to achieve in the next five years from
now. For a younger person it might be 1) obtaining GCSEs or 2) going on
a special trip or adventure.

For adolescents, it might be: 1) what kind of person they want to be as
an adult, such as a loyal and honest friend or a hard worker, and 2)
what kind of job they would like to have.

Encourage them to imagine what sort of qualities they want to have in
the next five, and then ten years. Since the dominating thoughts of a
child with depression have been disempowering, hurtful, painful and
negative, it is important to write very strong affirmations which will
eventually eclipse the irrational destructive and toxic beliefs and
gradually transform themselves into physical reality, helping the
childās mood to become more on an even keel again.

The positive statements on the vision board should reflect the opposite
of the negative thought patterns that they have. For instance, if your
child has low self-esteem and suffers from a lack of confidence, then
the statement could be something like "I am becoming more confident" or
"my confidence is growing each day". Another example is "I am" or "I am
becoming" more... joyful, self-assured, positive in my thinking. These
are important statements to help your child think of and write down.

It is very powerful to sit with your child and in a quiet place with
beautiful peaceful music, and say ālets just try this exercise, nothing
to lose. Imagine yourself already feeling as though your dreams have
become a reality, your prayers are answered, or you have already
reached your goals. This lifts one to a much more elevated mood.

Explain to your child that an affirmation can become even more powerful
when it is turned into a song or chant. This is called an incantation
because it is said with a focused purposefulness accompanied by body
movement. Sometimes people proclaim this loudly when drumming, dancing
or whatever movement they prefer.

Children and adolescents also can find and use quotes of their
favourite person in history, current day celebrities or great role
models in their life. Usually these great people have been resilient
through trials, tribulations and adversity. They can choose their role
models who are celebrities or famous people from both past and present
who also suffered from depression (e.g. Mandela, Gandhi, Winston
Churchill, Einstein, Mother Theresa, Mozart, Abraham Lincoln, and
Melanie C of the Spice Girls, Princess Diana, etc.).

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About Dr Angel Adams, Ph.D.

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Dr Angel Adams has worked as a clinician for over 28 years. Originally
licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in the US, she is also a BPS
Chartered Clinical Psychologist.

Dr Adams received her PhD from the California School of Professional
Psychology (CSPP), a school within Alliant International University.
Her background includes extensive training in various models of
clinical psychology including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural
therapy, systemic family therapy.

Dr Adams currently works in the Sutton CAMHS outpatient psychiatry team
and has a part-time private practice. Her work involves assessment and
diagnosis, psychometric testing, and implementation of therapeutic
interventions for children, adolescents and adults with a broad range
of diagnoses.

For the past nine years she has co-run a weekly ADHD Assessment Clinic
at CAMHS along side a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and
a Community Paediatrician.

Over the years her work has been particularly focused on running
specialised groups for children, adolescents and adults. She
facilitated groups utilizing a cognitive problem-solving skills
training. Additionally, she runs evidence-based parent management
training. She has conducted research on group intervention for children
with ADHD which she has presented at the International CHADD
conference.

She appeared on prime time TV, in which BBC2's Horizon science
programmes featured "Living with ADHD".

Since 1994, she has been a guest speaker at many conferences and
seminars across the UK, Europe and USA. She has also chaired various
conferences on ADHD.

She has been a consulting psychologist for Living TV in the UK for
specific programmes such as Extreme Makeover and Jade's PA.

Testimonials

"This book is excellent! When my daughter was ill it helped me a
great deal as I was feeling alone and isolated. I needed the
reassurance of such a clear and quickly readable book. This advice
may be on the internet in other forms but as an anxious parent I
needed to go to one place I trusted and read one thing. I felt deep
guilt about my daughter's illness though intellectually I knew it
was an illness and this book helped me deal with my irrational
guilt. I liked the hints and tips and the checklist and the straight
forward practical advice. The check list gave me the confidence I
needed at a time when others were suggesting it was just me being
over anxious. I loved the plan for going to the GP. I was always so
worried I might make things worse then would yo-yo between doing
nothing and trying to cure it, which was so frustrating. The book
was comforting when it pointed out that it doesn't feel good to be
the parent of a depressed child and this is normal. The links to
other sites for information and products are great and essential for
someone who is bit technically challenged like me."

- "PW", Parent of depressed child, Brighton, Sussex.

"This book is a must read for parents and young people who want to
know more about how to tackle depression holistically. It offers a
very accessible and readable text written by both a highly
experienced clinician as well as a parent whose child suffered from
depression. It will be an invaluable resource for families in the
battle against depression."

- Dr Marie Hanson, Chartered Clinical Child Psychologist, Sutton,
Surrey.

"Dr. Adams offers helpful coping strategies for children and parents
alike; she provides guidance on what to do when things do not go
according to plan; and there are pages that give practical advice on
recognizing depression in both young children and teenagers. An
important tenet of this book is the reassurance that, especially to
parents, that dealing with depression is challenging but that such
problems are not insurmountable. Dr Adams allows the reader to gain
benefit from her wealth of experience. She has written an excellent
book. Its easy-to-read style allows the rapid assimilation of
information in an understandable form. The book is a very useful
adjunct to the management of depressed children and teenagers and I
heartily recommend it"

- Dr Michael Barrie, MB BS MRCGP DCH DOccMED DRCOG,
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey.
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