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My Grandchild Needs Mental Health Treatment: What Can I Do?

Grandparents have a unique role in a child’s life. Often serving as quasi-parents, grandmothers and grandfathers have the opportunity to…
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Internet & Social Media
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Why Do Teens Like ASKfm?

ASKfm is a question-and-answer site largely populated by teens. Almost half of its users are between thirteen and eighteen years…
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Parents
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Why LGBTQ Identity Labels Are Important

The list of labels people use to describe their sexual orientation and their gender looks dramatically different than it used…
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Parents
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The Impact of Divorce on Adolescents

After the death of a parent, divorce is the second most traumatic event in a child’s life. And yet, for…
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Family & Home Life
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What Parents Can Do About Teen Nightmares

Many parents know that nightmares, and night terrors, are common in young children. What they don’t realize is that they’re…
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Parents
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The Suicide Contagion Effect in Teens

In Palo Alto, California, the teen suicide rate is about five times the nation’s average. In this affluent Bay Area…
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Parents
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International Overdose Awareness Day 2020

What is Overdose? Most of us have an idea of what overdose means: it’s what happens when you take too…
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Parents
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How Dogs Improve Your Mental Health

There’s a reason why people say dogs are a (hu)man’s best friend. If you own one of these furry creatures,…
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Family & Home Life
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Research Report: Wisconsin Student Athletes, COVID-19, and Depression

We recently published an article about the relationship between teen mental health, coronavirus, and high school sports. That piece was…
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Education
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With Schools in Limbo, How Can Parents Plan for the School Year?

On July 13th, officials in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco announced public schools will resume classes on August…
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Parents
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How Many 7th Graders in Lafayette, California Think Daily Marijuana Use is Okay?

Too many. During the 2017-2018 school year, the California Healthy Kids Survey asked students in Lafayette, California about their substance…
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Family & Home Life
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Is Middle Child Syndrome Real?

Alfred Adler, an early psychoanalyst, and contemporary of Sigmund Freud, was the first to theorize that birth order affects personality.…
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