Teens with sickle cell disease may need encouragement to become more independent with taking their medications as instructed, filling their prescriptions and making clinic appointments. Learn what you can do to encourage your teen to manage their condition independently.
Information to help your child or teen become more independent and take control of their own health care.
Discover strategies and tips to help your teen become more independent and take control of their own health care.
Your child's paediatric hospital may have resources and processes to help your child prepare to enter the adult health-care system. Learn more about these.
Find out how you can support the 3Ps of pain management with effective parenting strategies for your teen with chronic pain.
Teenagers with phenylketonuria (PKU) face the unique challenge of balancing their health with their growing independence. Read about how you can support your teen with PKU.
Find suggestions to help your teen manage their sickle cell pain using positive coping behaviours.
Learn about encouraging self-care in children with congenital heart disease.
Find out how to encourage your tween or teen to make healthy food and drink choices when eating out.
Find information to help support your teen (12 to 18 years of age) with intestinal failure transition through developmental ages and stages.
Having scoliosis surgery can be a very emotionally difficult experience for a teenager. Learn about common stressors as well as how to cope with them.
Exercising regularly, eating well and sleeping well are all important parts of proper JIA management. Learn how to encourage your teen to be healthy.
Read about the transition that must be made from paediatric to adult care.
Find out how a chronic condition affects your child's mental health and how to help them adjust to a recent diagnosis.
Find information to help promote independence in your teenager while continuing to help them manage their cancer treatment.
Learn about chronic pain in teenagers and the effect that it may have. Pain management, responsibilities, drinking and drug use are discussed.
Find out how you can use effective parenting to support the 3Ps of pain management for your teen with acute pain.
While it may not be possible to completely eliminate negative communication with your teen, you can create balance by increasing positive communication. Discover five tips for more positive communication with your teen.
As your child enters the pre-teen years, they have more opportunities to express their independence. Find out how to support their mental health, prepare for puberty and handle influences from the media.
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 what late effects are and why your teen should continue to self-monitor and attend follow-up appointments, even after treatment is completed.
Encourage healthy coping behaviours in your teen with these expert tips.
Review the information you learned in Modules 1 to 5 of the iCanCope with Sickle Cell Pain program.
Find out how you can help your child cope with the challenges of a neurological condition and any related mental health issues.
Discover how to monitor your teen's substance use effectively and what to do if your teen has a substance use disorder.
