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Evolve Danville Outpatient Holds Grand Opening Ceremony With Danville Chamber of Commerce

Evolve Treatment Centers: Bringing Essential Support to Teens On Monday, April 19, 2021, Evolve Danville Outpatient hosted its Grand Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony in conjunction with the Danville Area Chamber of Commerce. The event was held at 588 San Ramon Valley Boulevard, Suite 110, the location of Evolve’s new mental health and addiction treatment center for teens. Community Leaders Welcome Evolve Judy B. Lloyd, CEO of the Danville Area Chamber

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April 23, 2021

What Is Emotional Dysregulation in Teens?

Emotional Dysregulation, Mental Health Disorders, and the Role of Treatment If you’re the parent of a teenager, you probably have direct, experiential knowledge of the ups and downs of their emotional life. And since you were once a teenager and lived through adolescence yourself, you can think back to what your emotional life was like when you were a teen. Was it smooth? Was it rocky? Did you understand all

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April 23, 2021

More Time on Social Media Increases the Risk of Cyberbullying in Teens

The average teenager spends seven hours online every day for entertainment. While spending more time online is a reality of modern life, it changes the way adolescents interact with one another, often in negative ways. For example, too much time on social media can increase your child’s risk of being bullied online and becoming a cyberbully, according to a study from the University of Georgia. Teens were most likely to

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April 22, 2021

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month

This month is Child Abuse Prevention Month (CAPM). CAPM is organized and promoted by the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (AYCF), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Mayo Clinic defines child abuse as “any intentional harm or mistreatment to a child under 18”. This can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, medical abuse, or neglect. According to ChildHelp, a national nonprofit,

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April 21, 2021

April is Counseling Awareness Month

This month is Counseling Awareness Month (CAM). Created and promoted by the American Counseling Association (ACA) and sponsored by groups like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Mental Health America (MHA), April is a time to recognize the mental health counselors who work so hard every day to improve lives and help people heal. The theme for 2021 CAM is #BurnBrightNotOut. The ACA chose this theme to remind

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April 20, 2021

Behavioral Health Treatment Centers Help Teens Overcome Addiction and Substance Use

Do Teens Need Behavioral Health Treatment for Drug Abuse? The teen years are filled with challenges. Teenagers go through radical physical, emotional, and social changes in just a few short years. Parents of teens know the difference between their 12-year-old and their 16-year-old is enormous. Before adolescence and the onset of puberty, most children live in kid-land: superhero pajamas, snuggles with mom and dad, and a life focused mainly on

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April 19, 2021

Intergenerational Trauma: How Parents’ Childhoods Can Impact Their Kids

Parents pass down all kinds of traits to their children, from hair and eye color to freckles. Research shows they might also pass down the trauma of their own childhood. Early life experiences, such as neglect and abuse, can impact the structure and function of the brain. The effects of these experiences can appear in the trauma survivor’s offspring. A 2021 study found that moms who experienced emotional neglect as

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April 16, 2021

Does Self-Harm Put Your Adolescent at Risk for Suicidal Behavior?

The short answer to this question is that if your teen engages in self-harming behavior, which mental health professionals call non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), they are, statistically speaking, at greater risk for suicidal behavior than teenagers who do not engage in self-harming behavior. The big picture, however, with regards to the relationship between NSSI and suicidal behavior – meaning suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SA) – is not simple. A

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April 15, 2021

Teens with Body Dysmorphic Disorder May Benefit from Inpatient Treatment

No one is perfect. Not even close. However, our culture celebrates perfection. Although everyone knows no one is perfect, no one will ever be perfect, and knows the pursuit of perfection is bound to end up in frustration, millions of us still chase perfection as if it were an attainable goal. What we’re talking about here is the pursuit of perfect physical appearance. The perfect face. Perfect hair. The perfect

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April 14, 2021

What Level of Inpatient Treatment is Right for My Teen Who Is Cutting?

Inpatient and Residential Treatment Helps Teens Who Engage in Cutting When you learn that your teenager is cutting, it probably comes as a shock. You may be at a total loss. The behavior most people call cutting – which mental health professionals call non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) – is not easy to understand, at first. However, reliable statistics show that millions of teens each year engage in self-harming behaviors like cutting.

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April 13, 2021