Body Image Issues: How to Help Struggling Teen Girls Written by Shannon Bowden, Assistant Clinical Director at New Haven RTCTeen girls today are faced with immense… Read More
Street Names for Alcohol: What Parents Need to Know Written by Kristen VanOrman Buck Director of Outreach and Clinical Partnerships It's important that parents know the… Read More
Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment Parents or the primary caregiver of teens with reactive attachment disorder have typically suffered for years along… Read More
Crisis De Escalation LOoking For Treatment Options? Helping run a treatment program for adolescent girls, I've had many opportunities to… Read More
How to Develop Strong Family Foundations Looking For Guidance? What makes a family strong? It's not about the number of people or even… Read More
Racism and Teen Mental Health Racism has a profound impact on the mental health of teenagers. According to an article published in… Read More
Teen and Young Adult LGBTQ+ Mental Health Mental health is a crucial aspect of a teen or young adult’s well-being, and it becomes even… Read More
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: It’s all Anxiety It’s not uncommon for me to be in a meeting with a new family and hear the… Read More
6 Things Your Child Needs From You to Reduce Cutting (Self-Harm) Behaviors Let Us Help you Self-Harm is an increasingly pervasive symptom of emotional distress among adolescent girls.… Read More
The Sleep-Deprived Teen Sleep deprivation among teens has become an epidemic in recent years and is being linked by researchers… Read More
Learning Disorder Treatment Individuals with learning differences often have greater difficulty navigating the world around them. Much of this depends… Read More
What is PTSD? Many teenagers in treatment are being diagnosed with a disorder once associated primarily with soldiers returning from… Read More
ADHD Treatment Options for Teens Though ADHD is actually a neurobehavioral developmental disorder, by the time most sufferers reach adolescence they’ve internalized… Read More
Oppositional Defiant Disorder Treatment As a child enters adolescence, one of her greatest developmental tasks is to individuate from her parents—a… Read More
Bipolar Disorder Treatment for Teens Bipolar disorder is a mental illness characterized by extreme fluctuations in mood; because it manifests differently in… Read More
Runaway Teens Looking For Help With Your Teen? Perhaps your adolescent is a chronic runaway, leaving frequently for short… Read More
What to do When Your Teen Has Suicidal Ideations Vigilant, educated parents, teachers, and friends can do much to mitigate the risk of adolescent suicide by… Read More
How to Understand Sensory Processing Disorders Sensory processing disorder (SPD), formerly called sensory integration disorder, occurs when the brain has difficulty interpreting the… Read More
Why Do Girls Cut Themselves? We'Re Here To Help you By, Dustin Tibbits, LMFT As a parent, discovering that your teenage daughter… Read More
Does Your Daughter Refuse to go to School? In our work with adolescents over the past twenty years, the mildly mischievous practice of playing hooky has… Read More
Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Personality is a strange concept. It doesn’t exist in the physical world and is therefore difficult to… Read More
Why Teens Lie and Manipulate Their Parents Children learn to manipulate even before they learn to walk or talk. It begins as the innocent but magnificent… Read More
Teen Depression Help: a Guide for Parents As any parent of a teenager knows, change is the only norm during adolescence as the young… Read More
Finding the Right Treatment Program Most parents seeking a treatment solution for their son or daughter are themselves in crisis, struggling with… Read More
Types of Mental Health Treatment Centers and Therapeutic Programs There is no doubt that having a child with a mental health disorder is frightening and overwhelming.… Read More
Understanding the Role of Referring Professionals The best initial sources of advice regarding placement are mental health professionals and educational consultants. It’s worth… Read More
What is Vicarious Trauma? 3 Ways Parents Can Manage Compassion Fatigue When your daughter experiences trauma, you want to be there for her and help her through it.… Read More
Emotional Trauma Symptoms in Teens Trauma symptoms in teens can be caused by many things, from in utero stress, to adoption, or… Read More
Suicide Prevention Suicide is an uncomfortable and scary topic, but one that we cannot afford to avoid or ignore.… Read More
How to Motivate a Teenager with Depression Does your teenager seem unmotivated, listless or downright lazy? Many teens do. There is a high incidence… Read More
Student Safety — Our Top Priority Student safety has been the top priority at New Haven since its founding in 1995. The following… Read More
Life is Good – New Haven RTC Testimonial [audio src="https://www.newhavenrtc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Kelly-Molinari-New-Haven-Alumni-Story.mp3"] It was as if a spaceship had come down to Earth, and abducted my real… Read More