Writing and Healing Go Hand in Hand
Whether you’re a male or female teen, writing can be your best friend. When it feels like the entire world is at your back, when it seems like everyone you […]
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Why Medication Alone Doesn’t Work
When you have a headache, it’s easy to take a pill that makes the pain go away. Yet, if you have a mental illness, such as depression or anxiety, it’s
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Types of Teen Attention Deficit Disorder: Inward, Outward, and Structured
According to Lynn Weiss, Ph.D, author of A.D.D. and Creativity: Tapping Your Inner Muse, there are three ways that an adolescent might experience their ADD symptoms. Her book focuses on
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The Gifted Teen: Unexpected Mental Health Challenges
There’s something peculiar about the way we think about intelligence. Typically, students take several standardized tests that together yield a score, which is what most people know as the Intelligence
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Types of Teen Behavioral Addiction
Typically, when someone speaks of addiction, most people think of drugs or alcohol addictions. In fact, that’s exactly how the mental health field has been categorizing addiction for the last
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Teen Schizophrenia: Positive, Negative, and Cognitive Symptoms
Schizophrenia is an illness that not only baffles the layperson, but even clinicians and researchers are still investigating the causes of this mental illness. The curiosity of most people has
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Girls Drug Treatment: Focusing on Women’s Issues in Rehab
The field of drug counseling and healing addiction has significantly improved over the years. This includes the exploration of psychological and emotional issues that are specific to women and female
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Adolescent Dissociative Disorder Treatment
If your teen has been diagnosed with a adolescent dissociative disorder, which is probable if he or she has experienced trauma, then you may want to know that there are
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Loving Teens with Low Self-Worth
There are some core beliefs that begin the cycle of low self-worth. Typically, these debilitating beliefs stem from experiences in early childhood, such as trauma or simply living among dysfunctional
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Adolescent Depression vs. Adult Depression
It was originally thought that the symptoms of children and adolescent depression are different than those experienced by adults. Clinicians and researchers believed this until about the 1970’s. And who
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