Teens and Tweens Podcasts
Interviews with experts in adolescent mental health and addictions hosted by an adolescent and family therapist.

Parenting and Mental Health Issues

• Raising Resilient Children and Youth
• Aggressive behaviour in children and youth: When is it something to be concerned about?
• Tips for Parents On Building Healthy Relationships with their Teenagers
• When a parent dies by suicide: What kids want to know
• When a parent drinks too much: What kids want to know
• When a parent has bipolar disorder: What kids want to know
• When a parent has psychosis: What kids want to know
• When a parent is depressed: What kids want to know

Parenting, Drugs and Addictions

•  An Early Start
          Drug education begins at home - Introduction
          Help your children understand the safe use of medicine
          Let's talk about smoking
          Let's talk about alcohol
          Help your children feel good about themselves
          Set clear limits and let your children make choices
          Show your love
          It's okay to ask for help
• Ten tips for talking to your kids about substance use
• My kid on drugs: What can I do?
• Take Action! Alcohol, other drug problems & your family
          Preventing alcohol and other drug problems in your family
          Dealing with alcohol and other drug problems with your family
          How to get help and information links

Mothers and babies

Exposure to Psychotropic Medications and Other Substances during Pregnancy and Lactation: A Handbook for Health Care Providers Developed through a partnership between Motherisk and CAMH
A great deal of misinformation exists about women’s use of substances during pregnancy and lactation. A health care provider’s challenge is to know the true risks and benefits, both to the mother and to her fetus or baby, of taking versus stopping the use of a medication or other substance. Yet the average provider is not well equipped to give the best advice to women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and exposed to psychotropics.