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Parent Guide to Teen Substance Use Disorder Treatment

It’s not always easy knowing how to help a teenager with a substance use disorder. The overload of complicated information becomes even worse when you’re trying to help a loved one suffering. This guide carries everything you could want to know about treating substance use disorders and how you can find someone the resources they need. If you have any additional questions, please contact us at (877) 349-6720. Levels of

February 17, 2025

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Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders in Teens: 5 Myths and Warning Signs For Parents

If you ask most parents to describe what they think a teen with an eating disorder looks like, their answers tend to be remarkably similar: A very thin girl, looking down tearfully as she weighs herself on the scale for the fifth time that day. Of course, some teens with eating disorders are very thin girls who weigh themselves compulsively, and they need and deserve compassionate support. However, you might

February 11, 2025

Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens: 5 Things Parents Should Know About BPD

As a clinical team that specializes in adolescent mental health, we’ve met countless families who are navigating the unique challenges of parenting a teen with BPD. When we first begin working together, parents often express feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and in some cases, feeling hopeless. This is usually because they’ve tried to get answers and help for their teen in the past, but nothing seemed to be enough. But the truth

February 4, 2025

Mental Health

5 Mental Wellness Goals For Teens, According to Therapists

January is mental wellness month, and also a time when many of us consider resetting our goals for the year, sometimes in the form of New Year’s resolutions. While this can be an exciting process, others may be feeling pressured to overhaul their life — whether that’s chasing a fad diet, overexercising in pursuit of a “glow-up,” or cutting out things like coffee, sugar, or social media. The impulse to

January 24, 2025

Parents

Teens and Mood Swings: What is Emotional Dysregulation and How Can Parents Help?

Every parent or guardian was, at some point, a teenager themselves. And depending on your life experience, it can be easy to assume, when a teen under your care is struggling, that the phase or mood will pass — chalking it up to hormones, a developing brain, or simply a rite of passage. But after one too many slammed doors, raised voices, and hurtful words you never imagined saying or

January 16, 2025

Depression

Beyond Sadness: Understanding the Complex Symptoms of Teen Depression

Speak to any parent who has a teen with depression, and most will tell you that somewhere along the way, there was a nagging feeling that they couldn’t shake: “Is this really normal?” At first, the anger, moodiness, and withdrawal seemed like the typical growing pains of adolescence. But as time went on, that initial dip became a steeper decline: their teen seemed to lose their spark, instead becoming tired,

January 8, 2025

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ADHD

Helping Teens Heal: Outpatient Drug Rehab for Co-Occurring Disorders

Some decisions as a parent can feel more obvious. Maybe it’s choosing the car with the best rated safety features, or the apple that’s labeled “organic,” or the school district with an impressive track record of ivy-bound graduates. But when it comes to addiction and substance use, it can be challenging to determine what “best” really means with so many different interventions, facilities, and therapies available. This is doubly true

December 9, 2024

Types of Therapy

Equine Therapy: An Arena for Adolescent Mental Health Treatment

What is Equine Therapy? Equine therapy, also known as equine-assisted therapy, is a type of therapeutic intervention that involves guided interactions between clients and horses. Equine therapy is used to promote emotional growth and personal development. Why Horses? Equine Assisted Psychotherapist, Libby Coufal, says, “as prey animals, horses are essentially giant bio-feedback machines. At all times, they are assessing our external presentation and body language and comparing it to our physiological

November 15, 2024

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

How Treatment Centers for Teenage Depression Accelerate Mood Stabilization

Treatment for Teen Bipolar Disorder Parents of teens diagnosed with depression often wonder what steps clinicians in an adolescent treatment center will take, at the beginning of treatment, to balance the extreme moods and other up-and-down emotional symptoms their teen experiences. For parents of teens diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD), this is often their main concern. Since BD is characterized by cyclic movement between manic states and depressive states, finding

October 30, 2024

Getting Help

How to Tell if a Teen Needs Residential Treatment

If you worry your teen is getting off track this fall, you’re not alone. Parents across the country understand that the stress and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic can have a wide range of negative consequences for their teens. Shelter-in-place orders, social distancing guidelines, and virtual school all mean things teens previously took for granted no longer happen the way they did. If they’re happening at all. Depending on

September 15, 2024