MGH Clay Center: Ways to Help Your Lonely Teen
Welcome to the MGH Clay Center’s course, Ways to Help Your Lonely Teen. This course will explore conflicts in our lives and how to resolve them in three modules:
- Module 1: The Caregiver Role – Learning from the Arts and Media
- Module 2: Engaging Your Child – Applying to Real Life Scenarios
- Module 3: The Influence of Community – What to Look For, When to Worry, What to do
This course aims to answer this question by providing evidence-based and practical guidance to help parents and caregivers act in ways that can make a substantial difference in the lives of young people and their relationships. Importantly, it will also address ways that you as a parent or caregiver can help to foster social connections for your child, to decrease their risk for loneliness, increase their happiness and wellbeing, and prevent more serious mental health outcomes down the road.
Pricing: $49.99
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- The 3 main causes of loneliness
- The health consequences of prolonged loneliness
- Ways to invest in a secure attachment between teen and parent/caregiver
- The importance of other supportive adults in your student’s life
- Ways to encourage social connection with peers
- Inclusive strategies for assessing and regulating your student’s online media use
- Protective factors that decrease risk for social disconnection
- How to identify behaviors that increase risk for social disconnection
- Know what signs to look for, and when to worry that your student’s loneliness is becoming a more serious mental health concern
