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Treatment Trends & News

Treatment Trends & News

Treatment Trends & News
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

When Does an Adolescent Need a Psychiatric Hospital vs. A Lower Level of Care?

How Can Parents Tell What Level of Care Their Teen Needs? Mental health disorders, like any other type of illness humans experience, come in all types. This is true across the lifespan: children, adolescents, adults, and seniors can all develop mental health disorders. Although the disorders share similar characteristics when they appear in the different phases of life, mental health professionals use slightly different criteria for diagnosing a disorder in

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July 30, 2021
Mindfulness

How Does Mindfulness Work?

Scientists Search for An Answer A recent study performed at the University of Buffalo in New York offers new evidence about mindfulness that runs contrary to the popular view of what mindfulness does and how mindfulness works. The study, which included over a thousand participants, measured physiological responses to short-term stressors in people who reported having various levels of dispositional mindfulness. If you’re not familiar with that phrase, it refers

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July 29, 2021
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

California Offers the Best Residential Treatment Centers for Teens

Teen Treatment Centers in The Golden State If your teen has a serious mental health condition, they may need residential treatment. Teens with emotional, behavioral, or alcohol/substance use disorders (AUD/SUD) typically begin treatment with less immersive levels of care, such as outpatient treatment, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), or partial hospitalization programs (PHP). However, if your teen participated in a program at one of these levels of care but didn’t make

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July 27, 2021
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Is a Psychiatric Hospital the Right Choice for Teens With Depression?

How Much Support Does My Child Need? When your teenager receives a diagnosis for a mood disorder like depression – known by mental health disorder as major depressive disorder – the first thing you want to know is what you should do. Do you listen to the people who say mental health disorders are all made up and people with depression simply need to get over it and think positive

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July 25, 2021

When to Seek Help for a Depressed Teenager

Does My Adolescent Need Treatment for Depression? The teenage years present problems for parents on virtually every level imaginable. With the arrival of puberty – when physical and sexual characteristics mature – children enter a period of psychological, emotional, and behavioral change. This period between childhood and adulthood is known as adolescence. Adolescence is, by definition, a transitional time. It’s when we transform from the kids we were, dependent on

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July 23, 2021

Rehab for Teenage Depression: How It Works and Why It Helps

When your teenager receives a diagnosis for depression, their psychiatrist or therapist typically recommends a course of treatment. Some teens with depression may respond to once-a-week with their therapist. For those teens, the process is simple: you schedule appointments, take your teen to therapy, and monitor progress by keeping an eye on your teen and talking to their therapist. If their therapist recommends a more immersive level of care, then

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July 19, 2021

Bay Area Residential Treatment Centers for Teens: Homes Away from Home

Residential Treatment Centers for Teens in Northern California Might Surprise You When people think of residential treatment for mental health issues or drug and alcohol problems, two contrasting images typically spring to mind. Media, television, and film reinforce these images to the point that they’ve become well-established cultural tropes. Most of us don’t think twice about them, because we don’t need to. But the reality is that where residential treatment

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July 14, 2021

Why Do Teens Get Anxiety?

Anxiety and the Parent-Teen Bond Everyone worries about things. The common way to say it is “I’m stressing.” Some of us stress over the small stuff – ignoring the adage don’t sweat the small stuff every day – while some of us stress over the big stuff. Small stress or worries include things like focusing on a clean and tidy house, finding the perfect accessory for an outfit, wondering whether

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July 12, 2021

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Family Dynamic

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people physically, emotionally, and financially. New research shows it also has had a detrimental impact on the family unit. A study from Penn State shows a heavy impact on family well-being during the first few months of the pandemic. Researchers used data from 129 families they began gathering years ago, allowing them to compare well-being before and after the pandemic. The researchers found: Levels of

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July 10, 2021

OCD Treatment for Youth: Current Standards in Psychiatric Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy + Medication are Standard Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Youth Here’s something anyone reading this article – teens, parents, therapists, interested members of the public – should understand about OCD: Treatment for OCD works and can improve quality of life and overall wellbeing for anyone with OCD. With that said, we’ll offer a standard, clinical definition of OCD in children and adolescents. The International OCD Foundation defines

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July 8, 2021