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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
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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
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Parents

How Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive (MBCBT) Therapy Help Teens With Addiction?

Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery Teens diagnosed with alcohol use disorder (AUD) or substance use disorder (SUD) often need professional treatment and support to achieve sobriety and maintain long-term abstinence. If a full psychiatric evaluation administered by a mental health professional indicates the presence of AUD or SUD, the assessing therapist may recommend treatment at one of the following levels of care: Outpatient Treatment Outpatient treatment typically involves office visits of

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February 10, 2022
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Family & Home Life

Delaying Gender-Affirming Treatments in Teens During Covid: What to Consider

Gender-Affirming Treatment for Transgender Teens When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S. in March 2020, we all quickly became aware of a variety of new phrases. We couldn’t avoid them. Print, TV, mobile, and online media repeated them daily, over and over, in all our public discourse regarding COVID-19. We learned about: Shelter-in-place orders Social distancing Hand hygiene on a new level Masks Vulnerable populations Essential and non-essential services

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February 9, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

San Diego Teens and Mental Health

Does the San Diego Area Have Enough Mental Health Programs for Teens? Last summer, Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego shared a startling statistic with reporters from local radio station kpbs. At the midpoint of 2021, they’d seen a 25 percent increase in emergency room visits for acute mental health emergencies. As mental health professionals, this caught our attention: we’re both alarmed and concerned. However, if we’re being completely honest,

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February 8, 2022
Parents

Profiles of Adolescents at Higher Risk for Suicide Risk

What Combination of Factors Makes Teen Suicide More Likely? In December 2021, the Surgeon General of the United States released an advisory that every parent of teenagers should be aware of. He warned that teenagers in the U.S. are in what can only be described as a mental health crisis. Here’s a short list of notable excerpts from the advisory: Mental health challenges in children, adolescents, and young adults are

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February 7, 2022
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

When Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Requires Residential Treatment

Severe OCD: Obsessions and Compulsions Take Up Significant Time Every Day Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Volume Five (DSM-V) as a neurological disorder that’s part of a larger group of mental health disorders known as anxiety disorders. Common anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), separation anxiety, social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, among others. Anxiety disorders

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January 26, 2022
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Mindfulness

Complementary Therapies for Dual Diagnosis and Addiction Treatment

Over the past fifty years, treatment for alcohol and substance addiction – now called alcohol use disorder (AUD) or substance use disorder (SUD) – has evolved in several significant ways. The first and most important shift in addiction treatment involved a paradigm shift. Most members of the medical profession and general public now have a new view of the disordered use of substances. The dominant concept of addiction – before

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January 24, 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
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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Long-Term Effects of Untreated Anxiety in Teens From Low Self-Esteem to Substance Abuse

Untreated Anxiety and Chronic Stress: Negative Emotional, Psychological, and Physical Consequences The challenges of parenting are endless. [seriesbox]Little Ways to Help an Anxious Teen The Association between Anxiety and Suicidal Behavior in Teens Association Between Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents What Is Resilience and How Can It Help with Teen Anxiety and OCD?[/seriesbox]If you have kids, you know this already. If you have a teen or teenagers, you really

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January 19, 2022