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Maintaining Academic Progress While in Treatment: Solutions Offered by Teen Mental Health Facilities

A primary focus for nearly every parent of a teen is education. How are they doing in school? What is their GPA? Will they be able to get into the college of their choice? What will they study once in college? Higher education is still the goal of many parents and their teens. While trends show a slight decrease in students immediately heading off to a four-year school after graduation,

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June 23, 2025
Education

5 Things to Say (And What Not to Say) When Your Child Comes Out

When a child comes out as LGBTQ+, many parents don’t realize that this isn’t just a revelation — it’s an opportunity for closeness and connection. When your child was a baby, their needs were pretty simple: food, sleep, and clean diapers. As the years pass, knowing what your child needs or wants from you becomes harder to decipher. Growing up can be difficult, but parents have the power to make

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June 5, 2025
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens: Signs, Diagnosis, and How to Support Your Child

The following is a brief summary from our workshop on Borderline Personality Disorder. For a more in-depth conversation about BPD in teens, check out the video above.  May is BPD Awareness Month May is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Awareness Month. In the spirit of this, we’d like to revisit the amazing workshop conducted last year by our Chief Clinical Officer and licensed marriage and family therapist, Alyson Orcena. Our goal

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May 8, 2025
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Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders in Teens: 5 Myths and Warning Signs For Parents

If you ask most parents to describe what they think a teen with an eating disorder looks like, their answers tend to be remarkably similar: A very thin girl, looking down tearfully as she weighs herself on the scale for the fifth time that day. Of course, some teens with eating disorders are very thin girls who weigh themselves compulsively, and they need and deserve compassionate support. However, you might

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February 11, 2025
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Preventative Psychiatry for Teen Mental Health

Teen mental health is a primary concern in our society right now. The pandemic significantly disrupted the end of the 2019-2020 school year and the entire 2020-2021 school year. So far, the 2021-2022 school year – fingers crossed – appears to be a return to our regularly scheduled programming. Or, at very least, most high school students across the country right now are at school, in-person. If the current combination

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September 26, 2022
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Education

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 full-grown adults: people who are actively engaged in life report high levels of life satisfaction and overall wellbeing. That’s not only true for their mental health, but also true for their physical health. For the purposes of this article, though, we’ll focus on mental health. What do we mean by

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September 2, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Treatment of Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders Improves Social Outcomes During Early Adulthood

Early Treatment Helps Later Employment and Social Engagement When a teenager receives a diagnosis for a mental health, behavioral, or addiction disorder, there are several compelling reasons for their parents to seek professional treatment and support to help them address the disorder. First, our 21st century understanding of mental health disorders teaches us that they’re more like physical disorders than we thought during the latter half of the 20th century.

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April 8, 2022
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Education

Research Report: Study Defines Stages of Engagement in ADHD Treatment 

Helping Families Navigate the ADHD Treatment Process ADHD is one of the most common behavioral disorders among children and teens in the U.S. Data from the Centers for Disease Control published in 2016 and 2019 show the prevalence of ADHD among children age 3-17 increased between 2003 and 2011, then decreased between 2011 and 2019: ADHD Diagnoses in Children: 2003-2019 2003: 4.4 million 2007: 5.4 million 2011: 6.4 million 2016:

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January 20, 2022
Education

Parents of LGBTQ + Teens: A Guide to Terminology and Basic Concepts You Should Know

Learn the Language to Help Stay Connected to Your Child [seriesbox]LGBTQ+ and Transgender Teens: Using a Teen’s Chosen Name Reduces Depression and Suicide Risk I Wish I Were Dead: Why Transgender Teens Present as Suicide Risks and What Parents Can Do Is Gender-Specific Treatment for Teens Necessary or Does It Exclude LBGTQI+ Teens?[/seriesbox]Parenting any teen is a challenge. Hold that thought: parenting itself is a challenge. From birth through infancy,

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October 28, 2021
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Education

Would Keeping Cell Phones Out of Schools Help Teens’ Mental Health?

Experts Disagree on the Effect of Cell Phones on Adolescent Mental Health We recently published an article called Why Are Teens Lonelier and More Depressed? that discussed the state of mental health in our adolescent population as of 2021. Evidence from a wide variety of sources shows a marked deterioration in the overall mental health of our teen over the past twenty years. Key data points include the following: Suicide

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September 1, 2021