TPP 290: Katie Hurley on Supporting Stressed Out Kids and Adolescents
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm always saying to teenagers, you need to be in the driver's seat of your own brain. And the way you do that is you learn how it works. And every brain is different. And so you have to learn how yours works because mine isn't the same. You know, I can give you guidance, but I'm not you. So you have to learn how your brain works. You know, when do your moods dip? What kind of triggers affect you? So just really awareness because so many kids go through this and they suffer in silence.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. We are coming close to the end of this season on the podcast, but I still have some great interviews coming like this one today. My guest is Katie Hurley, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, parenting educator, public speaker and writer. She's also the founder of Girls Can Empowerment Groups for girls between ages five and 11. Katie covers mental health, child and adolescent development, and parenting for publications like The Washington Post, PBS Parents, Psychology Today, and Everyday Health. Katie is also the author of several books, many of which are on my bookshelf, including the award-winning No More Mean Girls, The Depression Workbook for Teens, The Happy Kid Handbook, A Year of Positive Thinking for Teens, and her newest book, which we are going to talk about more in this interview, The Stress Buster Workbook for Kids.
This is such a timely conversation as we as a society are learning more and more about how children and adolescents' mental health has been impacted during the past few years. Katie and I talk about how the current world situation is affecting teens and tweens, why so many kids are struggling with anxiety and depression, what's really going on with kids' social lives right now, ways parents can support their child's emotional well-being, and the importance of parents getting support for themselves if they're parenting a depressed child. Katie is so knowledgeable on these topics. I know that you're going to get a lot out of this conversation. Thanks so much. And now here is my conversation with Katie.
Hey, Katie, welcome to the podcast. Hey, thanks for having me. I love our conversation. And there's a lot that we can talk about today. But I wanted to, just as a way to get into it, just hear from you kind of what's happening in your world right now. I know you on a personal level. So I know that you're day to day really in the trenches right now.
What is the current state of kids' and teens' mental health according to the Surgeon General?
But could you spend a little time just telling our listeners kind of where your focus is in your work world these days?
Yeah, so in my practice, I work with a lot of tween and teens. And though I don't just work with girls, I happen to have a lot of female-identifying tweens and teens that I work with right now and a lot of LGBTQIA kids. So we're focusing a lot on just the re-entry, which I know it sounds weird to say that in January, except that because we've had this start, stop, start, stop all, well, for two years and going, everything constantly feels like re-entry. So they get things figured out, whether it's friendship stuff, academic stuff, relating to their parents' stuff, and then a new thing happens and they have to start over again. And it feels like they're starting from scratch. So there's been a lot of stuff coming up about friendships and
in particular, I was just mentioning earlier how in my parent groups on Facebook, a lot of parents are just really feeling helpless on the sidelines watching kids, teens in particular, struggle to find their friends. A lot of teens connected on social media and online and through gaming, and it was all really positive while they were not in school, and then they returned to school, and it's like all the rules are different. and it's really hard to manage and navigate. So kind of been doing a lot of that. And we know that, you know, the surgeon general put out a warning just a few weeks ago about the increased rates of anxiety and depression.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:37
2
What is the current state of kids' and teens' mental health according to the Surgeon General?
2:37–6:01
3
How does Katie Hurley describe the “re‑entry” challenges teens face after pandemic school closures?
6:01–9:14
4
Why do many adolescents experience anxiety and depression even after the pandemic?
9:14–12:35
5
What social‑connection struggles are teens encountering in school and online?
12:35–14:56
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How can parents help kids build and maintain friendships during these turbulent times?
14:56–17:16
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What practical coping tools are included in the Stress Buster Workbook for Kids?
17:16–20:17
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What does Katie predict for the emotional wellbeing of youth ten years from now?
20:17–37:45
Speakers
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