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Family & Home Life

Post-Pandemic Teen Mental Health: How Are Teens Adjusting as Things Get Back to Normal?

Is Your Teen Loving It? Hating It? Or Giving You the Teen Meh? A year and a half ago, everything in the U.S. changed. Adults know all about what happened to them. For some, gig work dried up. Others lost jobs completely due to the mitigation measures adopted by state and local governments. Still others went on furlough, while millions of others began working from home. Videoconferencing, shared online documents,

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October 8, 2021
Parents

Don’t Ignore the Subtle Signs of Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior

Take Passive and Active Suicidal Ideation Seriously When you have a teenager, one thing you have to learn to handle is the drama. If you can remember back to your teen years, you may remember that everything in your life seemed like a big deal. The new romantic interest. The breakup in your friend group. The classmate who got busted drinking and driving. The big test coming up on Friday.

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October 6, 2021
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Latest Evidence on How the Pandemic Impacted Teens with OCD

At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, mental health experts sounded an alarm. They warned that the pandemic would have a significant negative impact on the mental health of everyone in the country. Adolescent mental health experts warned that it wasn’t only the pandemic itself that would have negative consequences. They worried about the impact of mitigation measures on teenagers, specifically teens diagnosed with: Anxiety disorders Depressive

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October 4, 2021
Family & Home Life

Why Do Teens Get High?

Adolescence: Novelty Seeking, Identity Formation, Social Networks  Parents know teens experiment with drinking and drugs during adolescence. The most common drugs teens try during high school are alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco – in that order – although marijuana and tobacco are almost tied, percentage-wise, for the second most commonly used drug among teens during their high school years. Not all teens experiment with intoxicants, of course. But by the end

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October 1, 2021
Parents

Teen Treatment for Mental Health: A Guide to Terminology

Helping Your Teen: How to Understand the Language of Teen Mental Health Treatment [seriesbox]Terminology Guide: Teen Rehab Centers Terminology Guide: Teen Inpatient Treatment Terminology Guide: Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Centers Inpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression DBT Residential Treatment For Teens Behavioral Treatment Centers for Youth[/seriesbox]Over the past twenty years, trends in data on teen mental health show that prevalence rates increased for teens age 12-17 for all the most common

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September 29, 2021
Parents

Does My Teen Need Outpatient or Inpatient Treatment for Depression?

The Difference Between Teen Inpatient Treatment and Teen Outpatient Treatment Depression in teens comes in many forms. Some teens have mild depression. Their symptoms are uncomfortable, disruptive, and the emotions they experience are difficult to process without help. These teens most often participate in outpatient treatment, which means they go to a psychiatrist, counselor, or therapist’s office once a week – sometimes more, sometimes less – and work with them

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September 28, 2021
Parents

Behavioral Treatment Centers for Youth

What is a Teen Behavioral Health Treatment Center? [seriesbox]Teen Treatment for Mental Health: A Guide to Terminology Terminology Guide: Teen Rehab Centers Terminology Guide: Teen Inpatient Treatment Terminology Guide: Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Centers Inpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression DBT Residential Treatment For Teens [/seriesbox]Behavioral health, as a general term, means how the things you do affect your physical, psychological, and emotional wellbeing. The term applies to medical conditions most

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September 27, 2021
Addiction

Risky Behavior: Dangers of Teens Using Household Products Such as Inhalants

Inhalants Can Kill Within Minutes – With Just One Use If you’re the parent of a teenager, you know there’s a very real chance your child might experiment with alcohol or drug use during their teenage years. Right or wrong, experimenting with intoxicants has become akin to a rite of passage in the U.S. It’s alternatively glorified and vilified in the media, in pop music, on televisions shows, and in

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September 24, 2021
Parents

DBT Residential Treatment For Teens

How Residential DBT Treatment Helps Adolescents [seriesbox] Teen DBT Programs Part One: What Is DBT? Teen DBT Programs Part Two: How DBT Helps Teens DBT the Gold Standard for Treating Adolescent Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation How do Adolescent DBT Programs Help Depressed and Anxious Teens? Family DBT at Evolve: How We Do It[/seriesbox]In the 1980s, Dr. Marsha Linehan worked with adolescents with various mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, bipolar

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September 22, 2021
Parents

Inpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression

When Do Teens Need Inpatient Treatment for Depression? [seriesbox]Teen Treatment for Mental Health: A Guide to Terminology Terminology Guide: Teen Rehab Centers Terminology Guide: Teen Inpatient Treatment Terminology Guide: Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Centers DBT Residential Treatment For Teens Behavioral Treatment Centers for Youth[/seriesbox] There are two types of inpatient treatment for adolescent depression: residential treatment and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Both types of inpatient treatment support teens with severe depression

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September 21, 2021