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Types of Therapy

Types of Therapy

Types of Therapy

Types of Therapy

Benefits of Personalized Accommodations
Parents

Understanding 504 Plans: Benefits of Personalized Accommodations

A 504 plan serves as a comprehensive blueprint, outlining how schools provide support to students with disabilities, removing obstacles that hinder learning. Here we’ll delve more deeply into what is a 504 plan, the significance of these plans, their purpose in ensuring equal access for students, and the strategies employed to eliminate barriers to education. What is a 504 Plan A 504 plan is a customized accommodation plan designed to

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Individual Education Program
Parents

Understanding Individual Education Programs (IEPs) and Who They Benefit

School can be challenging for children with developmental delays, impairments, and disabilities. If your child faces learning difficulties, you may have come across the term IEP, which stands for Individualized Education Program. To help you understand this program in-depth, we will address common questions such as what is an IEP, who qualifies, and why it’s important. An IEP is a personalized approach specifically tailored to address your child’s challenges and

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Family & Home Life

Teen Psychiatry: Addressing Teen Mental Health Issues

What Is Teen Psychiatry? Teenage psychiatry refers specifically to the medical and therapeutic treatment of mental health conditions for teenagers. Most teen psychiatrists are actually child psychiatrists that specialize in working with teens because of their unique needs. This area of study focuses on dealing with unique teen-related issues like dating, fitting in, self-confidence, sex and sexuality, etc. It also helps provide insight to the ways that teens handle and

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Parents

Why Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Works

Most borderline personality disorder (BPD) treatment programs focus on treating adults. People with this complex condition face significant stigma, even among mental health treatment providers. Borderline personality disorder is difficult to navigate because there is no clear path to treatment, nor is there a straightforward cure for the condition. These factors caused clinicians to avoid diagnosing adolescents with borderline personality disorder for years. Additionally, many viewed the symptoms characteristic of

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teen boy in family therapy with parents
Family & Home Life

The Roles We Play: Family Therapy and Teen Substance Use Disorder

If your teen receives a diagnosis for a substance use disorder, the diagnosing clinician will most likely recommend treatment at one of the following levels of care: Residential Treatment Center (RTC) Teens with severe substance use disorder who are not stable at home and cannot participate in school life may need the full support of an adolescent residential treatment center. Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) Teens with moderate or severe substance

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Preventative Psychiatry for Teen Mental Health

Teen mental health is a primary concern in our society right now. The pandemic significantly disrupted the end of the 2019-2020 school year and the entire 2020-2021 school year. So far, the 2021-2022 school year – fingers crossed – appears to be a return to our regularly scheduled programming. Or, at very least, most high school students across the country right now are at school, in-person. If the current combination

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

How Stress Affects the Adolescent Brain

For centuries, our practice of medicine and understanding of disease was limited by one simple factor: we couldn’t look inside the human body. When pioneers began peering inside the human body, that always happened after a person was deceased – and that practice itself was considered heresy by the dominant powers of the time. Fast forward several hundred years, and our available technology is nothing short of magic, compared to

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teen boy wearing mask in classroom
Family & Home Life

Residential Treatment for Teens: When is it the Right Choice?

If you’re the parent of a teenager in 2022, the past two years have most likely been challenging for everyone in your family. You and your teen faced new circumstances. Some were no big deal, while others may have caused significant stress. In some cases, the stress and disruption led to the development of mental health issues. As a parent you wonder if your teen needs professional support – and

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Family & Home Life

ADHD Treatment in Teens: The Role of Diet

If you’re the parent of a child or teen with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you most likely know a great deal about ADHD treatment in teens. You’ve also most likely had your share of people in your life who suggest alternative treatments for ADHD, or offer explanations about why your teen has ADHD that have nothing to do with evidence, research, or the data collected, and published by mental health experts

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Mental Health Treatment for Teens: Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioral Disorders

Over the past two and a half years, everyone from politicians to public health officials to teachers to family, friends, and peers gave parents of teens an endless stream of free, unsolicited advice. Parents heard from all sides – including dozens of articles on our Parent Tips and Advice page – that the pandemic and related public safety measures would cause an increase in teen depression, teen anxiety, and teen

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