Help! My Teen is Depressed
A minibook that encourages parents as they care for their despondent child. 
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If your teen is struggling with depression, you may feel overwhelmed, uncertain, and unsure how to help.
Parenting a teenager can be difficult under the best of circumstances. When depression enters the picture, it can feel especially disorienting—leaving you unsure how to respond, what to say, or how to help your child move forward.

In Help! My Teen is Depressed, I offer biblical wisdom and practical guidance to help you care for your teen with compassion, clarity, and hope rooted in Christ.
What This Minibook Offers
This resource is designed to help you:
Better understand the experience of teen depression.
Respond with wisdom instead of fear or control.
Engage your teen with compassion and patience.
Navigate common challenges with biblical clarity.
Remember where true help and lasting hope are found.
What Others Are Saying
This important resource offers practical biblical wisdom with heartfelt compassion for parents who are walking through severe depression with their teens. The summary of counsel in the conclusion is well worth the price of the book.
Dr. Jim Newheiser
Author of Parenting is More Than a Formula, IBCD Executive Director, Director of Christian Counseling RTS Charlotte
Rather than offering simplistic or cliche answers to a complex issues, Christine Chappell offers biblical and practical wisdom with the compassion and understanding of one who has walked this hard road and found the grace of God to be sufficient. 
Sarah Walton
Author, Hope When It Hurts and Together Through the Storms
Whether you have a teen facing depression or you are struggling with depression yourself, Christine provides hope and help rooted in Scripture, the local church, and is chock-full of gospel encouragement.
Dave Jenkins
Executive Director, Servants of Grace, Executive Editor, Theology for Life Magazine
Christine compassionately shares her own family's struggles while still addressing the hard questions. I will most certainly be using this resource as a companion in my counseling.
Tim Keeter
Author Help! My Child is Being Bullied, ACBC Counselor
As a Pastor who struggles with depression myself, I found this booklet to contain many helpful steps to take, but most of all I felt encouraged that God cares for people who struggle with depression. This is the sort of hope and love that we need to give to our teens as we enter into their emotional distress.
Joel Fitzpatrick
Husband, Father, Pastor, Author of Between us Guys: Life Changing Conversations for Dads and Sons and Co-Author of Mom, Dad… What’s Sex?: Giving Your Kids a Gospel-Centered View of Sex and Our Culture
Christine provides invaluable hope and a helpful roadmap for parents and teens who feel lost and helpless when navigating the rugged terrain of teenage depression.
Shannon McCoy
Author and ACBC Counselor
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If you're walking through a hard season with your teen, you're not alone in what you're carrying. This minibook is here to help you respond with wisdom, patience, and gospel-centered care.
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Meet Christine
Christine Chappell

Christine is a certified biblical counselor and host of the Hope + Help Podcast for the Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship. She is the author of several books and minibooks, including Lament: Crying Out in Faith, Midnight Mercies: Walking with God through Depression in Motherhood, and Postpartum Depression: Hope for a Hard Season. She currently serves as a council member for the Biblical Counseling Coalition and is a regular speaker at women’s events and conferences. Christine lives in South Carolina with her husband and three children, and is a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Easley.
More Help for the Journey
If you're walking through a difficult season with your teen, there is help for you and your family. You can find additional biblical resources on depression, suffering, and caregiving throughout this site.
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