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

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