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World Trauma Day: Understanding and Healing Teen Trauma

At Evolve Treatment, we know that trauma isn’t just something that happens to other people—it’s something that can touch any of us, particularly teens who are still figuring out how to navigate the world. World Trauma Day is on October 17th each year, and it marks a time to raise awareness about the impact of trauma on people’s lives, especially young people. Let’s talk about what trauma is, how it

August 29, 2024

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Preventative Psychiatry for Teen Mental Health

Teen mental health is a primary concern in our society right now. The pandemic significantly disrupted the end of the 2019-2020 school year and the entire 2020-2021 school year. So far, the 2021-2022 school year – fingers crossed – appears to be a return to our regularly scheduled programming. Or, at very least, most high school students across the country right now are at school, in-person. If the current combination

September 26, 2022

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

How Stress Affects the Adolescent Brain

For centuries, our practice of medicine and understanding of disease was limited by one simple factor: we couldn’t look inside the human body. When pioneers began peering inside the human body, that always happened after a person was deceased – and that practice itself was considered heresy by the dominant powers of the time. Fast forward several hundred years, and our available technology is nothing short of magic, compared to

September 18, 2022

Family & Home Life

Intimate Partner Abuse and Teen Dating Violence Risk Factors and Interventions

Expanding Our Understanding of Dating Abuse and Violence In an article called “INTIMATE PARTNER SEXUAL ABUSE: Who Are the Victims, What Are the Risks? Adults, Teens, and Children” published in the judicial periodical The Judge’s Journal last year, author Lynn Hecht Shafran addresses a serious problem in our society: sexual violence between people who are married, in a relationship, or otherwise intimate – including teenagers. This a separate issue than

June 1, 2022

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Parents

Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in Teen Girls after Sexual Assault: Diagnosis and Treatment

Sexual Assault Can Affect Victims for Decades: What Type of Treatment Can Help? Sexual assault is a crime that affects millions of people in the U.S. The emotional and psychological consequences of sexual assault can cause severe, lifelong impairment. We’ll discuss these consequences and the details of the impairments below, but it’s important, first, for all members of the general public to understand that sexual assault can affect typical physical,

April 28, 2022

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Our Changing Understanding of the Course and Outcomes for Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder

What are the latests findings related to adolescent borderline personality and what can a parent do to help their teen? New Insight on Trajectories for Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder Adolescent borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most challenging mental health disorders we know about. For decades, clinicians avoided diagnosing teens with BPD for fear of misinterpreting typical adolescent turmoil as atypical behavior. They feared pathologizing typical behavior, which

April 25, 2022

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Finding the Top Adolescent Residential Treatment Centers

A Checklist for Parents Seeking Residential Treatment for Teens When your child crossed the threshold from pre-teen to full-fledged teenager, you probably braced yourself for the changes you knew were coming. You expected a range of physical, emotional, social, and psychological growth known as differentiation. The experts told you your teen would develop their own personal identity and their own sexual identity. They told you to expect changes in appearance,

February 15, 2022

Parents

Does Talking About Trauma Trigger Relapse?

Talking about traumatic events is often considered dangerous territory when treating addiction. Some people believe that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) – the gold standard in treating trauma – brings painful memories to the surface. They assert that CBT can be dangerous for people with dual diagnosis – i.e. those both a subtance use disorder (SUD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – might not have the tools to cope with these

January 1, 2022

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

When Does an Adolescent Need a Psychiatric Hospital vs. A Lower Level of Care?

How Can Parents Tell What Level of Care Their Teen Needs? Mental health disorders, like any other type of illness humans experience, come in all types. This is true across the lifespan: children, adolescents, adults, and seniors can all develop mental health disorders. Although the disorders share similar characteristics when they appear in the different phases of life, mental health professionals use slightly different criteria for diagnosing a disorder in

July 30, 2021

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Tipping Point: When Stress Pushes a Teen Toward an Anxiety Disorder

How to Recognize Anxiety and Reduce Stress in Anxious Teens Everyone knows about stress. Adults, teenagers, and children experience stress. Most of us understand that stress is an unavoidable part of life. Most of us also understand stress is not always negative. Stress can play a positive role in our lives. Stress leads to adaptation, which, in turn, can lead to growth and change. That’s true on a physical, psychological,

July 2, 2021

Trauma

World Trauma Day: Understanding and Healing Teen Trauma

Preventative Psychiatry for Teen Mental Health

How Stress Affects the Adolescent Brain

Intimate Partner Abuse and Teen Dating Violence Risk Factors and Interventions

Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in Teen Girls after Sexual Assault: Diagnosis and Treatment

Our Changing Understanding of the Course and Outcomes for Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder

Finding the Top Adolescent Residential Treatment Centers

Does Talking About Trauma Trigger Relapse?

When Does an Adolescent Need a Psychiatric Hospital vs. A Lower Level of Care?

The Tipping Point: When Stress Pushes a Teen Toward an Anxiety Disorder

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