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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

Though ADHD is actually a neurobehavioral developmental disorder, by the time most sufferers reach adolescence they’ve internalized… Read More

As a child enters adolescence, one of her greatest developmental tasks is to individuate from her parents—a… Read More

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness characterized by extreme fluctuations in mood; because it manifests differently in… Read More

Looking For Help With Your Teen? Perhaps your adolescent is a chronic runaway, leaving frequently for short… Read More

We'Re Here To Help you Self-harm includes any behavior designed to provide relief from emotional pain through… Read More

In our work with adolescents over the past twenty years, the mildly mischievous practice of playing hooky has… Read More

Misdiagnosed behavioral and emotional issues are common among adolescents and young adults. Mental health diagnoses are relatively… Read More

With adolescent trauma victims and their families, therapist Brad Rentfro, LPC, is using new brain research to… Read More

The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result… Read More

The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result… Read More

The past twenty years has yielded enormous progress in the area of clinical psychiatric research. The result… Read More

Research suggests that merely feeling thankful is likely to increase your own contentment, centeredness, and positivity—all things… Read More

Want a good role model for stress management? Spend some time watching your family pet. Dogs, in… Read More

A particularly toxic issue for many parents dealing with a difficult teen is that of unresolved anger… Read More

For parents of older teens struggling with behavioral or emotional problems, that teen’s 18th birthday may come… Read More

When a family faces a true mental health crisis it often feels sudden regardless of the warning… Read More

Just what is enmeshment and how can a family recover from this dysfunctional relational pattern? To find… Read More

Is your teenager irritable? Apathetic? Withdrawn? Does she sleep in, seemingly forever, on weekends? Does she express… Read More

Teenagers are drawn to whatever’s fastest, easiest, edgiest, biggest, newest or “best.” Hence the teenager’s penchant for… Read More

While more severe forms of autistic-spectrum disorder require specialized care, many children and teens with Asperger’s disorder… Read More

However you ended up at treatment, you may feel manipulated, forced, tricked, betrayed, etcetera by the very… Read More