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I Totally Missed the Fact My Teen Was Struggling – And I Feel So Guilty

One thing that happens with teenagers is that sometimes we miss the forest for the trees. It happens with parents, teachers, coaches, and everyone who works with teenagers. But it hits parents the hardest. You might think your teen is doing fine. They have ups and downs, sure. Their behavior changes – typical. Their clothes change – typical. Their focus shifts from the things they loved doing in elementary school

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March 16, 2021
Parents

Behavioral Health Treatment Centers Help Teens Overcome Anxiety

Data from leading public health officials and agencies in the U.S. shows the prevalence of mental health disorders among adolescents increased steadily over the past twenty years. Behavioral disorders such as ADHD increased by 5 percent from 2003-2007, by 7 percent from 2007-2011, and by 22 percent from 2011 to 2016. Diagnosis of depressive disorders among adolescents increased by 30 percent from 2005-2014. Despite these steady increases in behavioral and

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March 15, 2021
Parents

What is the Best Treatment for Teenage Depression?

Depression is a serious mental health condition. However, the word depression has become a catch-all, informal word that people use all the time to mean something other than the class of mental health disorders known by mental health professionals by their clinical designation, depressive disorders. When you talk with friends, acquaintances, and family members, you might hear sentences like this: I am so depressed. It’s enough to make you depressed.

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March 12, 2021
Family & Home Life

How the Arts Support Teen Brain Development

Most people agree that art and music are enjoyable, but a growing field of study – neuroaesthetics – shows they can also change the way the brain works. Through brain imaging tools, we know that the arts make people feel good, teach essential thinking skills, and help wire the brain for success. Exercise for the Brain When teens create art, they’re doing more than doodling. They’re building connections that impact

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March 11, 2021
Parents

How Behavioral Health Treatment Centers Help Teens Overcome Depression

Behavioral health treatment centers give teens with depression the tools they need to live a life defined by them – not by their diagnosis. Parents of teenagers know adolescence is a time of rapid and radical growth and change. Change happens on almost all levels: physical, psychological, and emotional. The external changes are easy to see. Puberty brings physical and sexual maturity, among other things. Boys begin to look like

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March 10, 2021
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Parents

Teens After Treatment: What to Tell Friends

When you start treatment for a mental health, alcohol, or substance use disorder, you might wonder how much – or even if – you should tell your friends about what you’re going through. If you’re in outpatient or intensive outpatient treatment (IOP), the question may never come up, because many of those programs occur after school hours, and your friends and random people at school might not even notice. But

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March 10, 2021
Parents

Treatment for a Child with Psychosis: When to Consider Hospitalization or Residential Treatment

If you’re the parent of a child with psychosis – meaning a child or adolescent who displays one or more of a set of symptoms related to a possible psychotic, mood, or behavioral disorder – then the first thing you learn when you seek child psychosis treatment is that psychosis itself is neither a diagnosis nor a condition. Psychosis is a symptom. In most cases, it’s a symptom associated with

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March 8, 2021
Parents

Trauma, Stress, and the Isolation of COVID Can Trigger and Worsen OCD in Children and Teens

Less Sun, More OCD: Get Your Kids Outside for Natural Light Therapy The coronavirus pandemic turned our lives upside down. It’s been a year now. Although the vaccines are here, we’re not quite out of the woods yet. But we are very close. The cumulative stress of the pandemic affects us all. However, it has had a disproportionate impact on people with pre-existing mental health disorders. Mental health experts warned

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March 5, 2021
Parents

March is Youth Art Month: Eight Things You Didn’t Know About Art Therapy

At Evolve Treatment Centers, we provide art therapy at every one of our teen residential treatment centers and outpatient programs. In honor of Youth Art Month this March, here are eight things you may not have known about art therapy. 1. It reduces cortisol levels. Research shows that a solid 45 minutes of engaging in art decreases cortisol, even when participants have no prior artistic experience. The effects are even

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March 3, 2021
Parents

Choosing the Right Behavioral Health Program for Your Teen: Psychiatric Hospital, Inpatient, Residential, or Outpatient Treatment

Right now, in the U.S., a confluence of conflicting trends in adolescent behavioral health gives us a mix of optimism and concern. On the one hand, the latest data from the Substance Abuse and Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) indicates that with each passing year, more and more teens who need help for behavioral health issues get the specialized treatment they need. On the other hand, the events of 2020 elevated

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March 2, 2021