How to Decide if Your Child Needs an Inpatient Mental Health Treatment Program Every teen with a mental health, behavioral, or alcohol/substance use disorder is unique. The same is true of any disorder for which they receive a clinical diagnosis. Each disorder develops in different ways for different reasons. A mental health disorder – a category that includes behavioral disorders and addiction – follows its own trajectory and is influenced

Residential Treatment Helps Teens With Depression There are a wide range of treatment options for teenagers with depression. If you’re the parent of a teen who recently received a diagnosis for a depressive disorder, finding the best support available is a priority for you and your family. We assume you’ve already taken the first step by arranging for a full biopsychosocial evaluation for your teen, administered by a licensed mental

Depression Treatment for Teens Can Save Lives Parents of teens have to play detective all the time. Most of us understand why. At a certain point – which is different for each individual – teens change the way they communicate with their parents. It doesn’t happen with every teen, and the communication rarely stops completely. When they need clean clothes, food, help with homework, the car keys, or permission to

Therapies for Adolescent PTSD and Early Trauma We recently published an article here called “Behavioral Health Treatment Centers Help Teens Overcome Trauma.” That article offered an overview of what trauma is and how trauma can lead to long-term, adverse physical, psychological, social, and emotional consequences. We then presented the fundamentals of a framework for processing, healing, and moving beyond trauma that’s called trauma-informed care. This article will focus on one

In 2017, the Child Mind Institute released a special report on the increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression among teenagers in the U.S. Two years later, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released their annual Monitoring the Future Survey (2019 MTF), which included data on the increase in rates of binge drinking among adolescents. Both reports created concern – and in some cases, raised alarm – for parents,

Depression is a serious mental health condition. However, the word depression has become a catch-all, informal word that people use all the time to mean something other than the class of mental health disorders known by mental health professionals by their clinical designation, depressive disorders. When you talk with friends, acquaintances, and family members, you might hear sentences like this: I am so depressed. It’s enough to make you depressed.