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Helping Your Unmotivated Teen: Interview with Melanie McNally, PsyD
Season 2024 · Episode 123

Helping Your Unmotivated Teen: Interview with Melanie McNally, PsyD

Your Anxious Child

October 25, 202437m 21s

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Show Notes

Melanie McNally, PsyD has just published Helping Your Unmotivated Teen: A Parent's Guide to Unlock your Child's Potential. She was seeing a lot of parents complain about how their teens appeared lazy and what she found was it was really a problem in motivation. Dr McNally talked with me about how to think about motivation and what goes into it, She talks about how motivation involves three skillsets: drive, grit and goals and then how to address difficulties with skillset

Dr McNally is a licensed clinical psychologist who is also the author of The Emotionally Intelligent Teen. You can learn about Dr McNally at her website https://www.destinationyou.net/