Parent Guides & Resources
Understanding and Addressing Violence and Aggression in Teens: A Parent’s Guide
The teenage years can be tumultuous, filled with high emotions, growth, and change. Often, parents of teens have trouble distinguishing normal teenager behavior from red...
Returning to the Classroom: How to Prepare Teens for a Successful Transition
Our teens are struggling. Evidence shows rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, substance use, and self-harming behavior have increased, with teens and young adults reporting...
Gender Dysphoria in Teens
Most of us never gave much thought to our gender identity growing up. As we navigated our way through childhood and adolescence, we felt comfortable...
Helping Your Adolescent with ADHD
It’s normal for teens to be impulsive, forgetful, and distracted at times. Their energy levels can fluctuate as well, depending on how much sleep they’re...
Suicide Ideation in Adolescence
One of the most heartbreaking losses for any parent is the death of a child. When the cause of death is suicide, the gut-wrenching pain...
Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Teens
Angry outbursts, acting annoyed by the seemingly smallest things, defying the rules you’ve set, being spiteful, swearing, irritability, and making hurtful remarks when they’re upset. ...
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD) in Teens & Children
What is DMDD? A relatively new psychiatric disorder known as disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, or DMDD for short, may be the proper diagnosis if you’re...
A Parent’s Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Adolescents
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is gaining more and more exposure as parents and therapists are recognizing its remarkable value in helping teens with emotional dysregulation,...
Transgender Teens
Adolescence is a time of radical transformation. Teens develop physically, emotionally, intellectually, and socially. They form their own identities, distinct from their parents. They engage...
Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents
What are Mood Disorders? Broadly speaking, a mood disorder is a mental health condition characterized by a significant, prolonged emotional disturbance that affects an individual’s...
Co-Occurring Disorders
What are Co-Occurring Disorders? When a person – child, adolescent, or adult – is diagnosed with a mental health disorder and an alcohol/substance use disorder...
Adolescent Psychosis
Psychosis is the clinical term used when an individual loses touch with reality. In adolescents, psychosis can be caused by many different factors, ranging from...