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How to Choose a Teen Rehab Center

Essential Elements of Teen Rehab In 2003, a group of experts on teen addiction treatment launched a project with an ambitious goal: “to conduct the first systematic evaluation of the quality of highly regarded adolescent substance abuse treatment programs in the United States.” They published their findings in a report that outlined nine core elements for treatment of teens struggling with addiction. The research team included scientists, therapists, counselors, and

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January 15, 2019

Five Steps to Take if You’re Being Stalked

The first thing to know is that stalking is a crime in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and on all Federal land. Here’s the legal definition of stalking: “A pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.” If someone is calling, texting, showing up, posting or commenting on your social media feed so much that it’s scaring you, then there’s

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January 14, 2019

Top Five Tips for Parents of Bipolar Teens

Census data says there are roughly 21 million adolescents age 14-19 in the U.S. Mental health statistics say about 3% of adolescents age 13-18 have some form of bipolar disorder. Our informal math says these numbers mean over half a million teens in our country struggle with bipolar disorder. It’s important for parents of bipolar teens to work alongside both their teen and their teen’s therapist to help them lay

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January 11, 2019

National Stalking Awareness Month: Know the Facts About Stalking

Stalk: (verb) To pursue or approach stealthily. The first time most of us heard the word stalk, we learned that definition. Probably while watching a nature documentary when we were kids. The camera focused on a harmless animal, like a mouse, going about its business – eating cheese, twitching its whiskers, playing with its little mouse friends. Then the camera panned back to reveal a cat lurking in the shadows,

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January 10, 2019

Top Six Reasons Teens Lie to Their Parents

Let’s be real: your teenager has probably lied or will lie to you about something at some point during their teen years. If they haven’t and never will, then you’re lucky – research shows roughly 96% of teens lie to their parents at least once in any given year. Unless you’re in that fortunate 4%, read on. We have knowledge to offer on the subject. The first step in working

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January 9, 2019

Home Schooling: What, Why, and How?

What Is Homeschooling? One question that every parent has to answer sooner or later is this: how am I going to best prepare my child for a successful life? Every parent has a slightly different answer to this question, but almost unanimously, parents and experts alike agree that a solid education is the best foundation for a fulfilling adulthood. This leads to another question: what kind of school is best

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January 7, 2019

The Early College High School Initiative

A New Trend in Education: Early College High Schools Early College High School. At first read, this combination of words seems like a contradiction in terms. Traditionally speaking, college and high school are two separate segments of education. There has always been a small percentage of advanced students who begin college far earlier than most students. It’s not unheard of for prodigies to begin college classes by age fourteen. For

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January 5, 2019
What to Do When Your Teenager Runs Away
Parents

What to Do When Your Teenager Runs Away From Home 

Running away from home is a problem behavior, and it could indicate a larger issue with your teen. If your teen runs away, especially more than once, it increases their risk of developing a host of long-term physical and psychological problems. It also increases the risk of exposure to dangerous behavior from other runaway teens and predatory adults. It’s a problem that should be remedied—fast. But before we get into

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January 3, 2019

Helping Kids Deal With Stress

Kids and Stress Stress, stress, stress. For most adults, stress is an unavoidable part of modern life. Stress can come from work, relationships, financial problems, and even from friends. When we’re in school, we learn that stress is what causes ecosystems and organisms to change. When we’re adults, we learn that stress is one of the consequences of growing up. We learn that stress changes us. In fact, many of

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December 27, 2018
Parents

Are New Year’s Resolutions Even Worth Making?

At this time every year, about forty percent of Americans make New Year’s Resolutions. That’s roughly one hundred thirty million people. On one level, this is encouraging. It shows that in general, we’re optimistic about the future. We want to change something in our lives for the better and have plans to put that change into action. But on another level, when you dig into the statistics on how many

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December 26, 2018