Our Blog: Guides & Resources for Families and Teens

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Emotion-Focused Parenting Interventions Improve Outcomes After Adolescents Mental Health Treatment Programs

How To Connect to Your Teen After Treatment When your teen receives a diagnosis for a mental health, behavioral, or…
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Meditation Yoga & Mindfulness
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Tips for Teens In Treatment: Do This and Feel Better in Five Minutes

How to Wake up A Tired or Stressed Body If you’re in treatment for a mental health issue or and…
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Does Wraparound Care Coordination Improve Outcomes in Adolescents with Behavioral Health Problems?

Study Measures Effectiveness of Community Support for Teens With Serious Emotional Disorders We can answer the question posed in the…
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders
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Risk of Suicide in BPD Teens with Prior Suicide Attempts

What Increases Risk of Subsequent Suicide Attempts in Teens with BPD? Over the past two years, we’ve published several articles…
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Social Media, Minors, and Sexual Assault

Does Social Media Use Increase Risk for Adolescent Girls? Over the past twenty years, the internet has changed life for…
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Is Your Teen Resilient? Can You Train Resilience?

Building Resilience in Adolescents During the Extended Pandemic The past two years have tested us all in ways in which…
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders
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Risk of Suicide in Teens with Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatment for Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder Can Reduce Symptom Severity Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most challenging…
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Clinical Validity, Strengths, and Limitations of Tools Used with Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria

Most Tools in Use Are Outdated: New Metrics Needed Over the past twenty years, members of the LGBTQ+ community have…
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The Use of Smart Phone Apps in Managing Self-Harm in Teens

Can Apps Prevent Self-Harm After Inpatient or Residential Treatment? The trends in data on teen self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicidal…
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Increase in Suicide Deaths among Adolescents: Did Boxed Warnings on Depression Medication Lead to Missed Diagnoses of Serious Depression and Suicide Risk?

Researchers: FDA Warnings Associated With Decreases in Treatment Teen mental health is everywhere in the news right now. There’s one…
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LGBTQ-Affirming Care in Teen Inpatient Mental Health Treatment

Why Gender and Cultural Competence is Critical in Mental Health Support In 2004, experts in adolescent mental health published an…
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Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Teens Post-Pandemic

Did Pediatric Mental Hospitals Admit More Teens During COVID Than Before COVID? When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S.…
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