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Terminology Guide: Teen Rehab Centers

What’s the Difference Between a Mental Health Treatment Center and a Teen Rehab Center? [seriesbox] Teen Treatment for Mental Health: A Guide to Terminology 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] When your teenager has a mental health disorder, a behavioral disorder, or an addiction disorder – i.e., an alcohol

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September is National Suicide Prevention Month

Each year during the month of September, mental health professionals, community advocates, and organizations like the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) work to raise awareness about the growing prevalence of suicide in the U.S. and around the world. Their collective efforts are known as National Suicide Prevention Month. There are two primary goals of National Suicide Prevention Month: Awareness Organizers use messaging across

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Parents

Terminology Guide: Teen Inpatient Treatment

What’s the Difference Between Inpatient Treatment and Outpatient Treatment? [seriesbox]Teen Treatment for Mental Health: A Guide to Terminology Terminology Guide: Teen Rehab Centers Terminology Guide: Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Centers Inpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression DBT Residential Treatment For Teens Behavioral Treatment Centers for Youth[/seriesbox] If your child or teen has a severe mental health, behavioral, or alcohol/substance use disorder, they may receive a referral for inpatient treatment. The easiest

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Parents

Terminology Guide: Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Centers

What is an Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Center? [seriesbox]Teen Treatment for Mental Health: A Guide to Terminology Terminology Guide: Teen Rehab Centers Terminology Guide: Teen Inpatient Treatment Inpatient Treatment for Adolescent Depression DBT Residential Treatment For Teens Behavioral Treatment Centers for Youth[/seriesbox] Adolescent mental health treatment centers – also known as mental health facilities for teens – are designed with one thought in mind: offering teens the help and support

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Depression in Teen Boys
Parents

A Letter to Parents with a Depressed Teenage Girl

Dear Moms and Dads, We’re here for you. We understand. We know you may feel a great weight on your shoulders that you might believe you alone must bear. But we want you to understand something: you are not alone. We’re here to support you and help you through this experience. Yes, your daughter’s mental health is the most important thing in your world right now. We get that. This

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Parents

Finding Mental Health Treatment for Your Teen: Things to Know Before You Start

When your teen receives a diagnosis for a mental health, behavioral, or addiction disorder, the first thing you want to know is how to help them. If your teen has a good therapist or psychiatrist, they’ll recommend a course of treatment. Decades of evidence prove that mental health, behavioral, and addiction disorders rarely resolve on their own: without treatment, they can escalate, with negative consequences ranging from problems with school

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Parents

Help Your Teen Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder Before It Arrives

Humans are connected to the rhythm of the seasons. Our behavior changes significantly over the course of the year. It depends on where we live, of course. Assuming we live in an area that has four seasons, more or less, we adjust what we do based on the general weather conditions, i.e. the seasons. Spring is about renewal. We get outside and enjoy the chill mornings and warm afternoons. We

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Family & Home Life

Parental Controls: Teens Still See Pornography Despite Parents’ Best Intentions

Mental Health Distress in Teens Obsessed with Pornography Parenting a teenager in the internet age is challenging. Thirty years ago, it was possible to control a teenager’s access to media with relative ease. Smartphones did not exist. Most families had televisions, but most programming was PG, with the exception of cable TV, where blocking explicit content was simple and straightforward. Twenty years ago, when computers became more common than uncommon

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Risks of Social Media to Adolescent Mental Health

If you’re the parent of a teenager in the year 2021, there’s a good chance you worry about the impact of social media on their mental health. You have good reason to worry. Media headlines over the past several years have presented a consistent message: social media is bad for our teens. Data from reputable sources – not just clickbait news-like sites – appears to support this message, too. Here

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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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