Encourage healthy coping behaviours in your teen with these expert tips.
Learn how setting up a reward system can help your teenager accomplish new JIA management goals.
This page describes how to balance helping your teenager while being respectful of their abilities and independence.
This page contains information to help parents cope with their increasingly independent teen.
Exercising regularly, eating well and sleeping well are all important parts of proper JIA management. Learn how to encourage your teen to be healthy.
Learn about the different ways cancer will impact you and your teenager, and how other parents have coped when their child is diagnosed.
Learning more about your teenager’s cancer and about how to help your teen cope and thrive despite it, is one way to help reduce your stress and worries. Having some knowledge may help you feel like you have more control.
Find information to help promote independence in your teenager while continuing to help them manage their cancer treatment.
This page gives an overview of how to help your teen with arthritis take control of their arthritis. It leads to pages on how to help your teen learn to manage own health care.
Learn about ongoing cancer research and your teenager's role in research and clinical trials.
This page describes how to help your teen take control of the health care. Help them handle stress and make sure to have effective communication skills.
Talking with your teenager can be difficult and even stressful at times. However, having effective communication skills can help ease that stress.
Learn strategies to cope with the stress and worry of having a child or teenager with JIA.
Learn how you can help your teenager to feel more independent and in control while they go through cancer treatment.
This page describes the impact arthritis can have on the family. When your teen has arthritis, it can affect your family activities, but there are ways to manage this impact.
Encourage healthy habits in your teen during cancer treatment and after with these expert tips.
Recommendations for navigating your way through the health-care system as a teenager and gaining independence in managing your own health care.
Learn about how your teenager's body image and self-esteem can be affected by cancer and treatment and the resources available to help them cope with any issues.
Your teenager's friends can be an invaluable source of support for them during their cancer treatment. Find out how to encourage your child to stay in touch with their peers while in treatment.
Learn how to start a conversation with your teenager about sexuality, and how having cancer and going through treatment can impact their sexuality.
This page will tell you what to expect as you go through the parent pages of the Taking Charge: Managing JIA Online Program.
Discover strategies and tips to help your teen become more independent and take control of their own health care.
This page describes the financial impact your teen's JIA can have on the family.
