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Anxiety in Teenage Girl
Parents

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 behavior are alarming. Over the past twenty years – and since 2012 specifically – rates of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts among adolescents increased dramatically. Many parents know rates of mental health disorders for teens increased during the pandemic. The stress, isolation, and fear of illness led to increases

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March 20, 2022
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Internet & Social Media

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 aspect of teen mental health dominating the headlines: the increase in teen suicide risk and suicide deaths. It’s not a new story. Between 2007 and 2018, teen suicide rates increased almost sixty percent. In 2014, suicide became the second leading cause of death for people age 10-24. Alongside these increases

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March 18, 2022
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Parents

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 influential paper that identified nine components common to the most respected and highly regarded adolescent treatment programs in the country. Since then, researchers have re-examined these components and made small additions and changes. But for the most part, the components recognized as essential to top-quality treatment of adolescents for mental

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March 10, 2022
teen in therapy
Parents

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. in early 2020, very few people knew what to expect. Among experts and laypeople alike, almost no one had any confidence in making long-term projections about what would happen. Here’s a list of the primary questions everyone wanted answers to: How long would it last? How many people would die?

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March 8, 2022
teen on mobile phone social media
Family & Home Life

Can Social Media Escalate Adolescent Self-Harm to Suicidality?

News Headlines Highlight the Risks: We Examine the Evidence Over the past ten years, parents have worried that screen time and social media use are harmful to their children’s development. For parents who grew up without smartphones and the internet, it’s an easy position to take. The way kids, tweens, and teens spend their spare time now is quite different than the way a child of the 70s or 80s

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March 4, 2022

Identifying Suicide Risk in Adolescents: The Role of the Primary Care Physician

Can the Family Doctor Help Identify Suicide Risk and Prevent Teen Suicide? Teen mental health is on the mind of every parent in the country right now. And if it’s not, it’s our position that it should be. We say that not only as professionals working in adolescent mental health, but also as concerned parents, uncles, aunts, and members of our various communities, all of which include teens we know

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March 3, 2022
Parenting

Outcomes for Adolescents in Long-Term Residential Mental Health Facilities

Does Long-Term Residential Treatment Help Teens? When your teenager has problems in school, at home, and with friends, you know it’s your job to help them work through those problems. When you do that, you know you have to get to the root of the problem. You have to find out what’s causing it. That’s how you help: you identify the source of the issue and work to resolve it.

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March 2, 2024
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Therapy and Medication Better than Medication Alone in Treating Bipolar Disorder

Family Participation Improves Outcomes Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mental health condition characterized by alternating cycles of mania/hypomania and depression/depressive mood that have a significant impact on typical daily function and impair overall emotional and psychological wellbeing. Bipolar disorder can be debilitating. It can prevent adolescents from participating in family life, school life, social life, and the extracurricular activities popular among adolescents. The most common evidence-based treatment for bipolar disorder

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February 27, 2022
teen with therapist on couch
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Finding the Top Adolescent Residential Treatment Centers

A Checklist for Parents Seeking Residential Treatment for Teens When your child crossed the threshold from pre-teen to full-fledged teenager, you probably braced yourself for the changes you knew were coming. You expected a range of physical, emotional, social, and psychological growth known as differentiation. The experts told you your teen would develop their own personal identity and their own sexual identity. They told you to expect changes in appearance,

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February 15, 2022
teen meditating in chair
Family & Home Life

How Teens Learn to Beat Stress During Treatment

Daily Stress Management Reduces Risk of Symptom Relapse We all get stressed. Everyone. That includes adults, teenagers, and children: it’s part of being human. Most of the time, stress is a negative experience for the person experiencing it. But we should all understand that not all stress is bad. Sometimes, it helps – but not always. Experts identify two types of stress. First, there’s acute stress. Acute stress can be

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February 14, 2022