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Get to Know Your Teen: What is Discord?

Chat platforms have been an online staple since the advent of the World Wide Web. America Online Instant Messenger (AIM),…
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Family & Home Life
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Why Won’t My Teen Come to Me for Advice?

Tips on Building Trust With Your Teen A funny thing happens during pre-adolescence. This isn’t true for all kids, but…
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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…
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How Teens Use Social Media and Digital Technology in 2022

When a former Facebook employee testified before Congress in 2021, their testimony led to an avalanche of news stories across…
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Brain Fingerprinting Might Predict Mental Health Problems

Millions of people in the United States live with mental health disorders. About 21 percent of adults in the U.S.…
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Five Things to Think About When Your Teen Returns to School

Around the country, summer for our high schoolers is coming to an end. Many teens returned to classes early in…
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Education
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Unique Ways to Support Your Teen’s Interests

There’s one thing we know about mental health that applies to people of any age, from children to teenagers to…
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The Effect of Hate Crime Laws on Teen Suicide

Teen suicide is a serious problem in the U.S. and worldwide. The increase in teen suicide in the U.S. is…
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Residential Treatment for Teens: When is it the Right Choice?

If you’re the parent of a teenager in 2022, the past two years have most likely been challenging for everyone…
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The Effect of Team Sports on Teen Mental Health

If you follow the news online, in print, or on television, you know that over the past two years, teen…
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Family & Home Life
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Sextortion, Teenage Boys, and Suicide

Online Predators Target Adolescent Males When we think of online predators – more accurately, when we think of the victims…
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Teens
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Tips for Teens: How to Improve Communication with Your Parents

Most of the articles we write are directed toward parents with teens in treatment for a mental health, behavioral, or…
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