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Camarillo: Drugs, Drinking, and Your Teenager

Since January, the Ventura County Sherriff’s Department has made dozens of drug-related arrests and confiscated marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, and controlled…
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Teens
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FML: I’m So Depressed

How many times have you said this to yourself or one of your best friends? Probably about a thousand. Or…
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Addiction
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What If My Parents Are Addicts?

We know teenagers hate cliches. You hate tired platitudes. And supposedly-wise adages make you want to scream. But we’re going…
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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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Parents
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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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