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What To Look For In A Multisystemic Treatment Program
Multisystemic treatment, or MST, is a comprehensive treatment model for adolescents with behavioral and emotional issues.

Fighting Fire With Water: Being Truthful To Your Dishonest Teen
A truthful approach to parenting can foster trust, connection, and respect.

Teen Depression
Depression is one of the most common mood disorders experienced by teens, and can lead to academic disruption, social isolation or school avoidance, and even suicide if not addressed.

Attachment Disorder
With the right interventions and family support, a young person with attachment issues can experience significant healing.

Teen Cutting
Many compulsive cutters desperately want help addressing this addiction but don't know where to turn.

DBT and Borderline Personality Disorder
DBT is a therapy designed to address the challenges traditional therapies have faced in addressing borderline personality disorder.

Surviving the Holidays
For those who have experienced a loss-whether through divorce, a custody arrangement, death, etc.-the absence of someone normally central to the holidays can trigger feelings of profound grief.

Why Single-Gender Therapeutic Boarding Schools Work
Just as it is critical to find a therapeutic boarding school that specializes in your daughter's specific treatment issues, it can be important as well to select a program that will meet her needs as a young woman.

Suicide Prevention for Teens
Many variables can predispose a troubled teen to consider suicide. Learn how to recognize the suicide risk signs before it is too late.

Does Your Teen Have Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness characterized by extreme fluctuations in mood. Because this illness manifests differently in adults and adolescents, the adolescent version of the disease is easily misdiagnosed and misunderstood.

Treatment Options for Teen ADHD
ADHD is one of the most studied learning disabilities and there are several effective treatment options available.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Diabetes
Patients with borderline personality disorder and diabetes must be handled carefully because their moods affect how well they take care of themselves, and their moods change frequently and dramatically.

10 Questions to Help You Select the Best Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program for Your Daughter
The following questions can help you make the best match between your daughter and the drug treatment or alcohol treatment program you select for her.

Emptying the Nest
A popular metaphor for describing the transition from adolescence to adulthood is that of the eagle pushing her young forcibly and abruptly out of the nest. This image hardly offers us a model for parenting or educating adolescents.

Helping Young Women with Borderline Personality Disorder Navigate the Supernova Romance
By helping coach young women to set appropriate relational boundaries and to move through instead of around pain, we can help them break their self-destructive coping pattern.

Tips for De-escalating Instead of Re-escalating a Crisis Situation
By implementing these seven tips, we can engage other's emotional explosions in ways that calm and heal, turning into surprising opportunities for growth.

The Tragedy of Unreported Rapes and Unacknowledged Rape Victims
Irene Kotter shows us the tragic impact of unacknowledged rapes, and arms us with critical knowledge to help young victims end their silence and heal from sexual assault.

Create A Lasting Connection With Your Children
Learn about the role rituals and traditions can play in strengthening family bonds and parent-child relationships.

Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens
Personality is a strange concept. It doesn't exist in the physical world and is therefore difficult to define. And yet, we have a pattern of behaviors, a pattern of thoughts, and a pattern of feelings.

Anxiety and Adolescence
There are many challenges for parents and adolescents during puberty. However, it is also an exciting time when new skills can be learned, a foundation for adult relationships can be laid, and progress can occur in family relationships.

Self Harm
Self-harm is unhealthy coping strategy that some individuals use when dealing with emotional pain. Its causes range from past trauma and pain, having difficulty with expressing oneself, and lacking healthy coping strategies.