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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

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 the human body. When pioneers began peering inside the human body, that always happened after a person was deceased – and that practice itself was considered heresy by the dominant powers of the time. Fast forward several hundred years, and our available technology is nothing short of magic, compared to

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September 18, 2022
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Family & Home Life

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 media platforms about the dangers of social media to teen mental health. The employee testified that Facebook – more specifically Instagram – intentionally withheld internal data about the harm social media use causes teens. This confirmed fears that circulated for years about the dangers of social media to teen mental

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September 5, 2022
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Parents

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. – that’s 52.9 million people – had a mental illness in the last year. Some have manageable conditions and can function in daily life. Others experience severe symptoms which limit their ability to navigate and manage life effectively. Despite the large number of people living with mental health disorders, researchers

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September 3, 2022
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Parents

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 August, some returned mid-month, but by the Monday after Labor Day, virtually all high school students in the U.S. will be back in class, ready to start the 2022-2023 school year. Some are bummed and want summer to last forever. Others are excited and can’t wait to get back to

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September 2, 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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Family & Home Life

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 well-documented, with the most recent alarm sounded from the top public health official in the country: the Surgeon General. A report published in late 2021 called “Protecting Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory” presents a set of facts about teen suicide in simple, broad terms that are easy

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August 29, 2022
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Family & Home Life

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 in your family. You and your teen faced new circumstances. Some were no big deal, while others may have caused significant stress. In some cases, the stress and disruption led to the development of mental health issues. As a parent you wonder if your teen needs professional support – and

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August 25, 2022
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Family & Home Life

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 mental health has become a common topic across all these platforms. Most of us notice them more, now, because of the well-documented negative effect of the coronavirus pandemic on teen mental health in the U.S. and around the world. However, articles about the precarious state of teen mental health in

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August 23, 2022
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Family & Home Life

Sextortion, Teenage Boys, and Suicide

Online Predators Target Adolescent Males When we think of online predators – more accurately, when we think of the victims of online predators – we most often think of young women. We think of teenage girls. We imagine older men grooming vulnerable young women, luring them into compromising situations that can end in about a thousand bad ways, up to an including the worst possible outcomes – which we won’t

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August 22, 2022
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Parents

Cyberbullying and Suicidality Among U.S. Pre-Teens

We recently published an article on the relationship between bullying, cyberbullying, and suicidality among teenagers in the U.S. and Canada. In that article, we reported on the prevalence rates of bullying in the U.S. and Canada and defined the primary types of bullying teens experience. Here’s a quick summary of the information we shared in that article. We’ll start with the data on teens in the U.S.: 20% of high

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August 12, 2022