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Family & Home Life

Why Is My Teenager so Angry All the Time?

Your teen, it seems, is constantly angry about something or the other. They snap back at you at every possible opportunity. They’re grouchy when things don’t go their way. Even the littlest things make them grumpy and irritated. You keep wondering: Why is my teen always so angry? Is this normal? Some Teen Anger Is Normal First, let’s reassure you. During adolescence, a measure of increased moodiness is normal. Hormones

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March 24, 2024

Pros and Cons of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction

Your teen is addicted to heroin or other opioids. You’ve been getting lots of advice. Mental health professionals have told you about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), 12-Step programs (e.g. Nar-Anon), and adolescent drug rehab centers. You’ve also heard about detoxification (often referred to as detox), and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT). For teens addicted to heroin or other opioids, traditional detox—cutting off all the substances from their system

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January 23, 2020
Parents

Can Music Help Treat Depression?

A report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 shows that depression is one of the most common chronic diseases on earth. The numbers are staggering: around 322 million people live with some form of clinical depression. That’s close to five percent of the entire population of the planet. This is a serious, population-level issue: people with clinical depression can experience significant emotional, physical, and social difficulties or

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January 22, 2020

Sleep and Teens With ADHD

Parents of teens with ADHD hear everything under the sun about their kid’s diagnosis. Family, friends, teachers, and mental health professionals dole out all kinds of advice, free of charge, all day every day. They’re not the only ones. Everyone seems to have an opinion. If you’re the parent of a teen with ADHD, the barista at your local coffeeshop has probably weighed in on what you should be doing

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January 20, 2020

Helping Teens With Grief and Loss

Parents have an instinct to shield their children from the hardships of life. It’s natural: protecting children is what parents do. But parents know they can’t – and shouldn’t – sequester their children in a protective bubble until they’re eighteen. That doesn’t help anyone. Kids need to learn hard lessons, understand how to cope with adversity, and develop the emotional resiliency necessary to stay balanced through the ups and downs

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January 17, 2020

Topics in Recovery: Obstacles to Treatment

If you’ve followed the news at all over the past three years, you know about the ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. Many of the articles in the media and many of the speeches made by politicians and addiction experts regularly include the phrases obstacles to treatment or barriers to treatment in reference to organizing and implementing a public response to the crisis. You may understand what these phrases mean

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January 15, 2020

Recovery Tips: How to Find an Exercise Routine You Can Stick To

When we wrote our New Year’s resolutions articles this year, we intentionally avoided talking about tangible, goal-oriented resolutions like saving money, losing weight, or picking up a new hobby, such as playing a musical instrument. That may seem counter-intuitive, because almost all New Year’s resolutions involve setting and achieving goals similar to those. Most people would agree those types of goals are the whole point of resolutions: think of something

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January 14, 2020

How Qigong Helps with Mental Health Issues Like Anxiety and Depression

Evolve is a proponent of experiential therapies, which promote mental health and prevent relapse. Experiential therapies (like equine-assisted therapy, surf therapy, music, art and more) provide fun, healthy outlets for teens, expose them to new ways of expressing themselves, and help them discover what a “life worth living” looks like for them. A new experiential therapy we now offer at Evolve Treatment Centers is Qigong, a mind-body practice involving slow,

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January 13, 2020

Does My Teen Have a Psychosomatic Disorder?

Your child has been complaining of a stomachache. Or a headache. Or ear pain, chest pain, nausea: take your pick. Problem is, the doctor can’t find anything wrong. He’s checked out your adolescent, and everything looks all clear—physically, that is. Which leaves you puzzled. It doesn’t make sense that your teen is exaggerating their symptoms. And the pain doesn’t seem to pass, no matter how much you wish it would.

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January 8, 2020
Health & Exercise

The Role of Exercise in Teen Depression Treatment

Teen depression is a complex disease that doesn’t always respond to traditional therapeutic approaches. Many mental health treatment providers use a trial-and-error approach to establish what works and what doesn’t for each client. Initially, the therapies treatment centers use include antidepressant medications and talk therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Complementary approaches like exercise also can be important tools to help manage depression in adolescents. Exercise can offer relief

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January 7, 2020