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Types of Therapy

Types of Therapy

Types of Therapy

What is Radical Acceptance and How Can it Help Me?

Core DBT Skills: Radical Acceptance If you’ve heard of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), then you’ve probably heard of radical acceptance. Maybe your child mentioned it, or maybe their therapist told you about it. Maybe you’ve seen the phrase as you researched DBT online. This article will give you an expanded understanding of radical acceptance, and how can it help your family. What is Radical Acceptance? Radical acceptance is the idea

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May 13, 2021

Does My Teen Have Paranoia?

What Clinical Paranoia Looks Like in Teens Your teenage son mutters about people following him. He says everyone is against him. Your teenage daughter is suspicious about friends and family. She insists people spy on her. Are they clinically paranoid? Do they have schizophrenia? Is it severe anxiety? Or is it nothing to worry about? To answer these questions, let’s talk about what these terms actually mean. Paranoia The American

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May 12, 2021
Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Behavioral Health Treatment Centers for Child Psychosis

Psychosis in Children and Teens When people hear the word psychosis, they rarely think about children. However, psychosis in children – sometimes called child psychosis – is more common than most people think. Which brings us to a second point: when people hear or say the word psychosis, they rarely know exactly what the word means. That’s no fault of their own. There’s a lack of general knowledge about mental

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May 7, 2021
Parents

Therapy for Teenage Depression: Understanding CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) Help Teens Live Life on Their Terms If you’re the parent of a teen diagnosed with a depressive disorder, you know that depression can have a major impact on their day-to-day life. The symptoms of depression can be so severe they may cause a teen to lose the drive, desire, and ability to initiate or follow through with

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April 27, 2021

Teen Alcohol Abuse Treatment

What Do I Do When My Teen Abuses Alcohol? Most parents expect their teenage child or children to experiment with alcohol during high school. They’re not sure when, or exactly how, but they know it’s likely to happen at some point during their teenage years. That doesn’t mean they’re happy about it or want it to happen. And it doesn’t mean they encourage it. But most parents are right: data

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April 26, 2021

What Is Emotional Dysregulation in Teens?

Emotional Dysregulation, Mental Health Disorders, and the Role of Treatment If you’re the parent of a teenager, you probably have direct, experiential knowledge of the ups and downs of their emotional life. And since you were once a teenager and lived through adolescence yourself, you can think back to what your emotional life was like when you were a teen. Was it smooth? Was it rocky? Did you understand all

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April 23, 2021

Behavioral Health Treatment Centers Help Teens Overcome Addiction and Substance Use

Do Teens Need Behavioral Health Treatment for Drug Abuse? The teen years are filled with challenges. Teenagers go through radical physical, emotional, and social changes in just a few short years. Parents of teens know the difference between their 12-year-old and their 16-year-old is enormous. Before adolescence and the onset of puberty, most children live in kid-land: superhero pajamas, snuggles with mom and dad, and a life focused mainly on

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April 19, 2021

Does Self-Harm Put Your Adolescent at Risk for Suicidal Behavior?

The short answer to this question is that if your teen engages in self-harming behavior, which mental health professionals call non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), they are, statistically speaking, at greater risk for suicidal behavior than teenagers who do not engage in self-harming behavior. The big picture, however, with regards to the relationship between NSSI and suicidal behavior – meaning suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SA) – is not simple. A

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April 15, 2021

Teens with Body Dysmorphic Disorder May Benefit from Inpatient Treatment

No one is perfect. Not even close. However, our culture celebrates perfection. Although everyone knows no one is perfect, no one will ever be perfect, and knows the pursuit of perfection is bound to end up in frustration, millions of us still chase perfection as if it were an attainable goal. What we’re talking about here is the pursuit of perfect physical appearance. The perfect face. Perfect hair. The perfect

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April 14, 2021

What Level of Inpatient Treatment is Right for My Teen Who Is Cutting?

Inpatient and Residential Treatment Helps Teens Who Engage in Cutting When you learn that your teenager is cutting, it probably comes as a shock. You may be at a total loss. The behavior most people call cutting – which mental health professionals call non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) – is not easy to understand, at first. However, reliable statistics show that millions of teens each year engage in self-harming behaviors like cutting.

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April 13, 2021