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Helping Your Teen with Social Anxiety Face the World

Anxiety is a regular part of daily life. From children to adolescents to adults, we all experience relative degrees of…
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Is My Teen Depressed or Just Moody?

If you’re the parent of a teenager, chances are you’re riding a rollercoaster of emotion along with your child. It…
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The Recovery High School Movement

Teenagers who enter residential, partial hospitalization, or residential treatment for alcohol or substance abuse disorders face a big challenge when…
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Contemporary Family Therapy

When it comes to treating substance abuse and mental health in teens, it’s important to ensure the family is included…
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Sobriety
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New Town, New School, New You: Same Recovery

You went through treatment and you’re on the road to recovery. Maybe you spent part of the summer in a…
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Parents
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Expeditionary Learning: A Journey to Knowledge

“To start a school is to proclaim what it means to be human.” This phrase, written in 1996 by Harvard…
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Body Image and the Adolescent Male

Body Image and the Media It’s widely recognized in the U.S. and around the world that young women are susceptible…
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Sobriety
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Back to School after Rehab

As summer winds down, teenagers around the country head back to school. Some start in the beginning of August, while…
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Talking About Suicide: Cry for Attention or Cause for Intervention?

Teenagers say all kinds of things that make parents scratch their heads. Sometimes their words are typical hormone-driven melodrama. “I…
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Getting Help
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How Therapists Can Help Parents Accept the Need for Teen Residential Treatment

Therapists who treat teenagers struggling with mental health problems, addiction, and/or substance abuse disorders tend to encounter resistance from their…
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Family & Home Life
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Empathy or Achievement – What We’re Teaching Our Kids

The Empathy Gap Over the past decade or so, schools in the U.S. have been playing a game of catch-up.…
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Parenting
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Is it a Behavioral Issue or a Cry for Help?

Adolescence is a difficult time. Teens go through many physical and mental changes that can complicate their thoughts and emotions.…
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