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When parents disagree on managing their child's mental health treatment

My husband and I have completely different ideas about how much to accommodate our teenager's anxiety and depression — I think we need more structure and he thinks we need more flexibility — and we're basically undermining each other every day while our kid gets worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who love the same child are working at cross-purposes because they haven't aligned on what healing actually looks like.

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“Where Are You with Parenting a child with mental health challenges?”

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