Total Teen Health and Wellness: A Doctor's Guide for Parents
Total Teen Health and Wellness is a biweekly podcast for parents of teenagers to learn more about medical and mental health issues in their children. Dr. Shanna Garza, an Adolescent Medicine physician and expert, provides essential education and helpful guidance to parents to help them better understand how to empower and encourage their teen children to live healthy and balanced lives. Parenting the whole teen requires moms and dads to know about the physical health and mental well-being of their children. Dr. Garza is here to guide!
Podcasting since 2021 • 26 episodes
Total Teen Health and Wellness: A Doctor's Guide for Parents
Latest Episodes
25. Why I Refer My Patients for Therapy: An Adolescent Medicine Physician Perspective
Therapy is an important part of mental health care for teenagers. Patients improve more when they are connected to a therapist who helps them build healthy coping skills, work on relationship issues and improve their self esteem. There ar...
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Episode 25
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14:32
24. Anti-Diet: How Parents Can Teach Their Chidren Balance with Food and Exercise
Parents are the ultimate teachers for their kids and can be role models by showing balance with food, body and exercise. Following up Episode #23 on Why Diets are Not Good for Teens, this episode reviews how parents can help their teen and youn...
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Episode 24
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11:08
23. New Year, New You? Why Diets Are Not a Good Idea For Teens!
The diet industry targets teenagers during this time of new years' resolutions through social media and marketing. Dieting is never a good idea for teenagers who are still growing and developing. Dieting, which is essentially restrictive eating...
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Episode 23
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18:07
22. Worried About the Risk of Prescription Drug Use in Your Teen? Parents, Listen to Learn More!
Parents hear scary stories in the news every week about drug overdoses in teens related to prescription pill misuse. 10% of teenagers report misusing a prescription drug in the last six months. Now, the risk is even greater given how many pills...
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Episode 22
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14:30
21. Is It Ever Safe for My Teen to Use Marijuana? Parents, Know the Risks!
Teenagers and young adults have easy access to marijuana, and many are using cannabis frequently and heavily. Chronic use of marijuana has higher risks to young people due to the developing teen brain. Dr. Shanna Garza reviews medical and menta...
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Episode 21
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20:34