Parenting Teens in Stressful Times

Two Latter-day Saint mothers—one an adolescent-health researcher, the other a licensed clinical social worker—team up to help parents raise resilient teens in an anxious, high-pressure world. Blending gospel principles with current research on emotions, positive psychology, and parenting, they cover understanding hard emotions, cultivating optimism and gratitude, positive discipline, promoting youth spirituality, and caring for one's own soul. Warm, practical, and refreshingly honest about their own parenting mistakes, it reassures overwhelmed parents that never giving up is itself success.

• Written by an adolescent-health researcher AND a licensed therapist—faith plus real clinical science
• Refreshingly honest: two moms admit their own parenting mistakes on the page
• Addresses the teen mental-health crisis head-on with Elder Holland's message that there's no shame in mental illness
• Reframes success: as long as you never give up, you are not failing as a parent

“there should be no more shame in acknowledging [mental illnesses or emotional disorders] than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.”

Perfect for a Latter-day Saint parent worried about an anxious, stressed, or struggling teenager who wants faith-centered but research-backed tools.