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DBT Skills For Teens: This One DBT Skill Can Lift Most Teens’ Negative Moods

Opposite Action is a very popular Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill among teens. In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), teens learn a variety of practical skills they can use to change unhealthy and ineffective behaviors. These skills are divided into four core modules: Emotion Regulation, Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. One well-known skill in the Emotion Regulation set is called Opposite Action. This skill is helpful for teens struggling with depression,

February 4, 2020

For Teens With Borderline Personality Disorder, This One Symptom Is Very Common

One of the main symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is splitting. Splitting is the unconscious division of people, situations or events as “all good” or “all bad.” For example, a teen with BPD can decide a friend is either “the most loyal person in the world” or “evil.” An event is either “amazing” or “terrible.” A situation either “worked out perfectly” or turned “disastrously”. Splitting occurs as a defensive

February 3, 2020

Eat Your Vegetables: Diet and Health in Childhood and Adolescence

An alarming trend has emerged over the past three decades in the United States: children and adolescents are falling victim to a wide array of health problems. According to studies released by the CDC, the Kaiser Foundation, and countless peer-reviewed academic journal publications, data indicate that obesity, asthma, and type 2 diabetes are all on the rise. Not only do these medical conditions degrade a child’s overall quality of life

January 31, 2020

January is National Hobby Month: Top Ten Benefits of Hobbies for Teens

Sometimes, hobbies are just fun, and nothing else. And that’s what makes them so great. They occupy a space in life that’s not work, school, or family. Everyone needs that: a part of life where there’s no pressure and very few expectations. Hobbies can be that. But hobbies can be also be much more. They can teach a teenager valuable lessons that last for years, and improve their overall quality

January 30, 2020

January 2020: National Stalking Awareness Month

Stalking is a serious crime that can cause severe emotional damage to the person being stalked. Stalking can also be a precursor to sexual and non-sexual violence, rape, and murder. Did that sentence get your attention? Good. That’s why we wrote it: stalking needs your attention. It needs all our attention. It needs national attention. Here are two figures from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey to give

January 29, 2020

What Does It Mean That My Teen Has Prodromal Symptoms of Psychosis?

If your teen has been acting strangely over the past few days and weeks, you might have taken them to a mental health professional, who stated that your child could be in the prodromal stages of psychosis. What does it mean if your teen is prodromal? This means that your teen is showing the introductory signs of psychosis that indicate he or she could end up developing full-blown psychosis in

January 28, 2020

Someone Is Stalking My Teen Online. What Do I Do?

Here at Evolve Treatment Centers, our utmost priority is the safety and security of adolescents and teens everywhere. That’s why we’re committed to spreading awareness on the dangers of the dark web, unfiltered social media access, and the unfortunate reality of child sex trafficking/grooming. Grooming and stalking go hand-in-hand. Many child predators will start talking to their victims online, and then start stalking and harassing them if and when the

January 27, 2020

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

January 23, 2020

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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

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

January 20, 2020