Caregiving for Teens on the Autism Spectrum: Managing the Challenges

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Being a parent of a teen is hard enough, but when you throw disabilities into the mix, the role can seem downright overwhelming. In the third episode of a series on caregiving, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss ways you can overcome these challenges and model the proper behavior to put your teen in an environment in which they can thrive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman.
0:12.0	And I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast, we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.
0:19.6	The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aymond Clinics, where we have been
0:24.7	transforming lives for 30 years, using tools like brain spec imaging to personalize treatment
0:31.4	to your brain. For more information, visit Aimanclinics.com.
0:35.7	The Brain Warriors Way podcast is also brought to you by BrainMD, where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.
0:45.1	To learn more, go to BrainMD.com.
0:48.8	Welcome back. We're in Caregiver Week, and we're teaching you how to manage your mind and your thoughts.
0:58.4	One quick review from SKS, SKS 311 from the United States, alcohol, the holiday spirits, you're better off without.
1:13.5	An eye-opener. Very interesting podcast.
1:18.1	So we've been talking about caregivers, and I want to move into teenagers because they're often
1:24.9	not grateful for all the effort to. Sometimes they're the ones that people feel the most triggered by.
1:31.3	Notice I said triggered by, not they don't, it's not that they trigger you.
1:35.6	It's that you feel you get triggered by because you're sort of allowing that to happen.
1:39.2	Well, and one of the things people don't know is when you have children, at each age your child is at,
1:50.7	unconsciously, you're going and reliving what happened when you were that age. So powerful for me. So, so Chloe's 15,
2:05.7	almost 16. And that was actually a really hard time for you. It was. And so I started to have,
2:11.8	she's a really good kid, but I started to notice I was having some anxiety over her growing up.
2:18.7	And so, yeah, it can be triggering.
2:21.5	And I started to notice that I started to hold on a little bit.
2:24.8	And I think it's because that was a hard age for me.
2:28.0	This was powerful for me to learn because it was a hard age for me.
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