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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How to Develop Strong Family Foundations
Looking For Guidance? What makes a family strong? It's not about the number of people or even…
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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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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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Why Do Girls Cut Themselves?
We'Re Here To Help you By, Dustin Tibbits, LMFT As a parent, discovering that your teenage daughter…
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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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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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Teen Depression Help: a Guide for Parents
As any parent of a teenager knows, change is the only norm during adolescence as the young…
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Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail
[toc] At New Haven, we often ask our students, “What would you try if you knew you…
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Emptying the Nest
A popular metaphor for describing the transition from adolescence to adulthood is that of the eagle pushing…
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Anxiety in Teens
The Shock of Puberty One of the most anxiety-provoking times of life for children and their parents…
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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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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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Parenting through Sexual Trauma
Early on in treatment, it’s not unusual for adolescents to disclose things that are very difficult for…
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Parenting a Trauma Victim
When an adolescent experiences symptoms of post-traumatic stress, it’s not unusual for her parents to feel confused…
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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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Families That Eat Together Stay Together
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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Transition After Residential Treatment Center
If your teen or young adult has recently transitioned home from treatment, you may be anxious about…
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Confidentiality in Therapy
When a teen or young adult enters residential treatment, parents are often surprised to learn the extent…
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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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Health in Adolescence
According to certified recreational therapist, Corey Hickman, today’s teens are experiencing a recreational crisis. Mental health professionals…
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Why Do People Lie?
Never trust a teenager! Okay, I should qualify that. In general, don’t offer complete and unreserved trust…
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder
How do you get your teenager to stop arguing with you? According to many experts, you don’t!…
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Re-learning How to Sleep
A huge part of every parents’ job when their child is in treatment is to prepare for…
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My Teenager Argues About Everything
According to family psychologist, Jack Hinman, argumentativeness is a necessary developmental pattern for adolescents. The good news?…
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Managing Anger as a Parent
A particularly toxic issue for many parents dealing with a difficult teen is that of unresolved anger…
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Screen Addiction: Teens
Screen-based technologies are ubiquitous these days. Cell phones, tablets, portable game consoles, portable video players, laptops, smart…
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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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