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#010 Sally Wang on Counselling for the Mental Health of Youth

Career Change Advice with Dr. Jon Tam
Career Change Advice with Dr. Jon Tam
Episode • Dec 24, 2019 • 53m

In this podcast, I interview licensed professional counselor Chuhua Sally Wang who specializes in working with youth. We discuss a range of topics from motivation, bullying, anxiety, stress, depression, parenting, and how to help young people develop resilience. We analyze the problems at the societal, community, familial, and individual levels and discuss what parents and youth can do about the problem. 

Check out Sally's practice at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/chuhua-sally-wang-allentown-pa/712945

Video version available on YouTube channel “Dr. Jon Tam”

00:10 - Introducing Chu Hua Sally Wang 

2:30 - Problems that Sally work on with youth - motivation, bullying, anxiety, stress, and depression 

5:00 - Discussing the seriousness and the causes of the problems young people face nowadays and how to solve them 

10:00 - How to juggle working with parents and youths

 12:10 - Diagnosing the problem beyond the family 

13:45 - How to address bullying for youths 

18:25 - How do you differentiate between malicious bullying and the lack of resilience 

21:45 - How to strengthen resiliency for children and youths 

31:30 - Why parents need to adapt to different stages of child development 

32:30 - Motivational question techniques parents can use 

36:10 - Recommendations to young people who don't know what they want to do in the future 

39:45 - How to deal with imposter syndrome 

43:50 - Problems Asian students struggle with and how to talk with their parents 

52:40 - How to learn more about Sally's practice

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