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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