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Teens: Five Good Reasons to Volunteer (That Have Nothing to do With Your College Application)

Question: If you help someone just because you get something out of it, does it still count as helping? One…
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Parents
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Parents: Mental Health Care for Youth on the Rise

Mental Health Care for Youth in the USA Over the past twenty years, there’s been a positive trend in general…
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School's Out
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L.A. Teens: Plan Your Summer Before Your Parents Do

The official calendar for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) says the last day of the 2017-18 public school…
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Jobs & Careers
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Summer Jobs: Legal Details Teens Need to Know

You’ve read our article The Pros and Cons of Teenage Jobs and made your decision: you’re getting a job this…
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Parents
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Dialing in the Diagnosis: What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?

Getting the correct diagnosis for your teen is an essential first step if they struggle with emotional, mood, behavioral, and/or…
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Education
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The National Report Card 2017: How Are We Doing?

We got our report card last month. It didn’t come home in an intimidating, official white envelope carefully placed in…
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Teens
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Teens: Are You a Perfectionist? Is That a Good Thing? Take the Test

To Perfect or Not Perfect In our society, we place a high value on personal achievement. That’s one of the…
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Parents
Understanding Adolescent Development

Understanding Adolescent Development: Key Characteristics and Growth Phases

The Time of Change Anyone involved in the life of a child knows that there’s only one constant: change. Children…
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Parents

Deciphering the Code: 21st Century Teen Slang

What are They Even Saying? We’ll start this post by reminding all the parents out there of the first rule…
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Parents
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Treatment Spotlight: Family DBT at Evolve

As you may know from reading our article Treatment Spotlight: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at Evolve, DBT is all about…
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School & Friends
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Teens: Cool to be Smart, or Smart to be Cool?

This article is about peer pressure. Not your typical peer pressure, though. We know there are kids in your school…
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Parenting
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Positive Parenting

Words Matter Children look to their parents or primary caregivers for almost everything. From providing the basic necessities like food…
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