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Treatment Trends & News

Treatment Trends & News

Treatment Trends & News

When Does a Teen Need Rehab for Depression?

Teen Depression Treatment: My Bay Area Options We can answer the question posed in the title of this article immediately: A teen needs rehab for depression when the symptoms of their depression persist for more than two weeks and prevent them from participating successfully in the day-to-day activities of school life, family life, social life, or work. Let’s unpack that statement. We’ll start with this critical disclaimer: Only a mental

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

The Tipping Point: When Stress Pushes a Teen Toward an Anxiety Disorder

How to Recognize Anxiety and Reduce Stress in Anxious Teens Everyone knows about stress. Adults, teenagers, and children experience stress. Most of us understand that stress is an unavoidable part of life. Most of us also understand stress is not always negative. Stress can play a positive role in our lives. Stress leads to adaptation, which, in turn, can lead to growth and change. That’s true on a physical, psychological,

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How do Residential Treatment Centers Help Teens with OCD?

Intensive Treatment Helps Teens With Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neurological disorder that can range from mild to severe. Mild OCD is uncomfortable and may be disruptive, but typically responds well to professional treatment and support. Severe OCD, on the other hand, was once classified by the World Health Organization as “one of the most disabling illnesses by lost income and decreased quality of life.” Severe

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Are Psychiatric Treatment Centers the Best Option for Your Troubled Teen?

How Do You Know if Your Troubled Teen Needs Psychiatric Treatment? The teenage years can be challenging for teens and parents alike. Adolescence is a time of radical transformation in virtually every area of a teenager’s life. Without going into extensive detail in each of these categories, we’ll review the major changes that occur for everyone during the teen years. Adolescence: Five Big Changes 1. Physical The presence of new

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Teens Live in Times of Unexpected Uncertainty and That Can Make Them More Paranoid

Teen Mental Health: The Connection Between Uncertainty and Paranoia It’s common to hear phrases in everyday speech that are similar, or identical to, the words you find in clinical mental health diagnoses. People say things like this all the time: I’m depressed. You’re paranoid. The anxiety is getting to me. You’re delusional. When people say these things, they’re often easy to understand in context. Someone who’s sad may say “I’m

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Self-Cutting Treatment for Teens: Outpatient, Inpatient, or Hospitalization

Evidence-Based Treatment for Teens Who Self-Harm Self-cutting – known among mental health experts by its clinical name, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) – can be difficult to understand for someone who’s never engaged in or known anyone who’s engaged in the behavior. The first person most people ask themselves is “Why?” That’s the most common question parents ask when they learn their teen engages in this type of behavior. We’ll address that

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A Brief History of Treatment for Eating Disorders

If you have an eating disorder or witnessed the effect an eating disorder has on a friend or loved one, you know how difficult it can be to manage. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, and others can cause lasting damage to the body. These disorders can also have a devastating effect on mental health. Eating disorders are often both treatment-resistant and deadly. Estimated mortality rates hover in

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Anger, Impulsivity, Sleep, and Teens: The Serotonin Connection

Serotonin Affects Impulsivity, Uncontrollable Anger, and Sleep in Teens Everyone gets angry. Everyone has impulses. And everyone knows that without adequate sleep, they’re more likely to be irritable, snappy, and reactive. When we’re snappy and reactive, the systems in our brain that regulate impulses and moderate anger aren’t functioning properly. In that way, when we’re sleep deprived, we’re like surly teenagers. This is a side note, but that’s one way

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The Changing Landscape of Teen Mental Health Treatment

Teen Mental Health Treatment: Meet Them Where They Are, Treat the Whole Person Mental health treatment has come a long, long way. Just a hundred years ago, we hid people with mental health problems away in places with names like insane asylums or sanitoriums. We treated them with techniques that now appear barbaric. Ice baths, restraints, and isolation were common. They were better, however than what came before that. During

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Self-Injury Treatment Programs for Non-Suicidal Teens

Treatment for Teens Who Engage in Self-Injury But Aren’t Suicidal When parents discover their teen engages in the maladaptive pattern of behavior mental health professionals call non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), the first question most ask themselves is why. That’s after the initial shock fades, of course. Learning their teenage child intentionally harms themselves can be confusing and difficult to understand. The next thing they worry about is whether their teen is

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