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Effectiveness of Outpatient Treatment for Suicidal Adolescents

Are Outpatient Treatment Programs for Suicidal Teens Safe and Effective? Suicide has become a serious problem among adolescents and young adults in the United States. Suicide is one of a cluster of behaviors that have increased over the past twenty years. When mental health professionals talk about suicide as a teen health crisis, they include things directly associated with a completed suicide such as suicide attempts, self-harming behaviors, and suicidal

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June 10, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Gaps in Options for Outpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression

Expanded Access Needed in Rural Areas and for Low-Income Families In the post-pandemic 21st century, most parents of teenagers know the state of mental health among adolescents in the U.S. is at a crossroads. Some experts say our teens are in crisis or call our current situation a bona-fide emergency. Crisis, emergency, or longstanding problem now getting public recognition for the first time, the Surgeon General of the United States

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June 9, 2022
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Parents

Telehealth for Teens: “Showing Up is Half the Battle”

Virtual Care Works – But You Have to Be There When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. in early 2020, things changed for almost all high school students across the country. We all watched as cities in California went first. They issued shelter-in-place orders and their schools switched to virtual learning over a matter of days. Students, teachers, and school administrators nationwide watched and wondered: “Are we next?” The

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June 7, 2022
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Parents

Why Do Teens Drop Out of Outpatient Treatment?

Factors That Affect Early Exit from Adolescent Mental Health Treatment In the 21st century, we know a lot about mental health disorders. We know far more now than we did, for instance, in the 1980s. Research that began in the 70s, continued though the 80s and 90s, and reached clinicians and patients in the early 2000s teaches us that mental health disorders are chronic medical conditions that respond well to

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May 30, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Physical Exercise in the Treatment of Adolescents with Depression

Can Exercise Really Reduce Symptoms of Depression in Teens? The short answer: yes. Over the past twenty years, our awareness of the benefits of exercise has increased dramatically. Of course, before the recent revolution in self-care, mindfulness, and the scores of peer-reviewed scientific studies documenting the benefits of exercise, we knew that exercise was good for you. But we never knew exactly how good it was, on how many levels

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May 27, 2022

Teen Rumination: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Depression

Teen Rumination Can Lead to and Exacerbate Depression Depression is a mental health disorder the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (5th Edition) defines as a mood disorder, which is a class of disorder used to describe all the various subtypes of depression and bipolar disorders. Among depressive disorders, the DSM-V identifies nine subtypes of depressive disorder. DSM-V: Types of Depression Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). This is the

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May 25, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Outpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression

How Effective Is ACT In Outpatient Treatment for Teens With Depression? Adolescents diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) often resist treatment. They may resist because of the stigma attached to being diagnosed with a mental health disorder, or the misunderstandings around teen depression treatment. They may fear their diagnosis and not want to believe they have a real mental health disorder. In some cases, they attempt to ignore their symptoms

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May 24, 2022
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Parents

Effective Outpatient Treatment in Preventing Adolescent Suicide and Self-Harm

What Type of Outpatient Treatment Works Best? In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released an astonishing report. That year, suicide became the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-24. Then, in 2017, they revised that finding to define adolescent suicide as the second leading cause of death for ages 15-19. For those teens, suicide is second only to death by accidents in general. However, though more

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May 20, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Importance of Outpatient Treatment for Adolescents After Discharge from Psychiatric Hospitals

Let’s talk about outpatient treatment for adolescents as a standard for follow-up care after discharge from psychiatric hospitalization. Why Do Teens Need to “Step Down” Through Levels of Care? We’ll preface this article by saying that outpatient treatment is one of the core foundational elements of psychiatric treatment worldwide. In most cases, it’s both the entry point to and exit from treatment for mental health, behavioral, or alcohol/substance use disorders.

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May 19, 2022
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Family Risk Factors in Adolescent Recurrent Depression

Maternal Mental Health and History of Psychiatric Problems When a teen receives a diagnosis for major depressive disorder (MDD), one thing they learn is that recovery from depression is a process. Once they receive a referral for and begin treatment, such as outpatient therapy, virtual outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient treatment (IOP), partial hospitalization treatment (PHP), or a residential program (RTC), their progress depends on a variety of factors specific to

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May 18, 2022

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