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When parents and teens disagree about mental health treatment

My teenage daughter and I keep having the same fight about her mental health treatment - she says therapy isn't helping and wants to quit, I think she's not giving it enough time, and we're both getting more entrenched in our positions instead of actually figuring out what might help her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who care deeply about the same outcome are creating resistance through their very efforts to help.

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