International Service at New Haven
Author: Noel Miller-Executive Residential Director & Blair Higbee-Teresa House Residential Director "It was so rewarding to have…
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The Sleep-Deprived Teen
Sleep deprivation among teens has become an epidemic in recent years and is being linked by researchers…
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Runaway Teens
Looking For Help With Your Teen? Perhaps your adolescent is a chronic runaway, leaving frequently for short…
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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…
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How to Understand Sensory Processing Disorders
Sensory processing disorder (SPD), formerly called sensory integration disorder, occurs when the brain has difficulty interpreting the…
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Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment
Parents or the primary caregiver of teens with reactive attachment disorder have typically suffered for years along…
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Why Do Girls Cut Themselves?
We'Re Here To Help you Self-harm includes any behavior designed to provide relief from emotional pain through…
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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…
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Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment
Personality is a strange concept. It doesn’t exist in the physical world and is therefore difficult to…
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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…
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Finding the Right Treatment Program
Most parents seeking a treatment solution for their son or daughter are themselves in crisis, struggling with…
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The Power of Choice
One of the top reasons why I love working at New Haven Residential Treatment Center is because…
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Holiday Stress Relief Tips
Enjoy Your Holiday Amid the Difficulties The holidays can be a wonderful time to spend with friends…
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The New Haven Alumni Association
The New Haven Alumni Association exists to provide connection, support, and advocacy on behalf of New Haven…
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What Are the Symptoms of ADHD?
What Are the Symptoms of ADHD? By, Laurie Laird Reference: mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/l/bladd.htm ADHD is not like a broken arm,…
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“Coping with Depression at School”
Depression can steal everything that you love. Depression doesn’t ask permission or quietly exit when it takes…
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Back to Basics: Supporting Teens and Loved Ones with Depression
As a supporter of a family member suffering from depression, I know how difficult it can be.…
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Parent to Parent: Placing your Teen in Treatment
Placing our daughter in treatment was a very difficult process for us. We felt very alone. We…
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College Gap Year
Emergent adults are taking less of a straight line to adulthood than past generations did. They are…
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Nurture Your Relationship
For all the scholarship and science we rely on for excellent treatment at New Haven, we still…
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PTSD and Brain Research for Teen Trauma Victims
With adolescent trauma victims and their families, therapist Brad Rentfro, LPC, is using new brain research to…
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Family Volunteering
The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result…
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Daily Wellness Tips for Your Family
The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result…
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Thanksgiving
Research suggests that merely feeling thankful is likely to increase your own contentment, centeredness, and positivity—all things…
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Willpower Exercises for Struggling Teens
We all experience lapses in self control. For a teenager who is struggling with other emotional issues,…
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Stressed-out Teen? Talk to Spot!
Want a good role model for stress management? Spend some time watching your family pet. Dogs, in…
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Turning Crisis Into Opportunity
When a family faces a true mental health crisis it often feels sudden regardless of the warning…
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Treating Enmeshed Teens and Parents
Just what is enmeshment and how can a family recover from this dysfunctional relational pattern? To find…
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While your Daughter’s Away…
SELF-CARE FOR PARENTS Your child is in residential treatment because you are absolutely committed to getting her…
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Negative Personality Traits
Knowing that our dominant personality traits usually have two sides to them can help us cultivate their…
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Blue Zones at Home
Teenagers are drawn to whatever’s fastest, easiest, edgiest, biggest, newest or “best.” Hence the teenager’s penchant for…
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Screen Obsessed
Science is finally confirming with what astute parents have known for decades: too much TV is bad…
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