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
Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment Parents or the primary caregiver of teens with reactive attachment disorder have typically suffered for years along… 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
Finding the Right Treatment Program Most parents seeking a treatment solution for their son or daughter are themselves in crisis, struggling with… Read More
The Emotional Bank Account What’s an Emotional Bank Account? Imagine your emotions are all inside of a bank account. When you… Read More
Create A Lasting Connection With Your Children While writing this article my mind is replaying the words, “Tradition! Tradition!” from Fiddler on the Roof.… Read More
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,… Read More
Personal Growth Plan: Eating an Elephant When things seem overwhelming or impossible, I think of a little word I learned while living in… Read More
Improving Family Relationships When things seem overwhelming or impossible, I think of a little word I learned while living in… Read More
Humor in Therapy Diane nervously takes a seat during her first group therapy session since enrolling in residential treatment. While… Read More
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… Read More
Healing The Family System During treatment, avoiding or covering up sensitive issues in a family system such as affairs, deaths, addictions,… Read More
Nurture Your Relationship For all the scholarship and science we rely on for excellent treatment at New Haven, we still… Read More
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… Read More
Family Volunteering The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result… Read More
Families That Eat Together Stay Together The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result… Read More
Daily Wellness Tips for Your Family The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result… Read More
Thanksgiving Research suggests that merely feeling thankful is likely to increase your own contentment, centeredness, and positivity—all things… Read More
Screen Addiction: Teens Screen-based technologies are ubiquitous these days. Cell phones, tablets, portable game consoles, portable video players, laptops, smart… Read More
Troubled Teen to Troubled Adult For parents of older teens struggling with behavioral or emotional problems, that teen’s 18th birthday may come… Read More
Turning Crisis Into Opportunity When a family faces a true mental health crisis it often feels sudden regardless of the warning… Read More
Treating Enmeshed Teens and Parents Just what is enmeshment and how can a family recover from this dysfunctional relational pattern? To find… Read More
Blue Zones at Home Teenagers are drawn to whatever’s fastest, easiest, edgiest, biggest, newest or “best.” Hence the teenager’s penchant for… Read More