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Read MoreReading Time: 4 minutes Teen boys and teen girls drink alcohol and use drugs at roughly the same rates. But male substance abuse is considered more acceptable and “normal” by parents, peers, and society […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Most every parent and caregiver knows how to test whether a child has a fever—but do they know how to do a mental health temperature check? Trauma, depression, and anxiety […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Facebook has halted development on Instagram Kids, a version of Instagram designed for tweens, following protests from lawmakers, parents, and mental health experts. The outcry came after the Wall Street […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes The challenges of online learning and social isolation have taken a tremendous toll on teen mental health—but the return to on-site school brings an equally significant set of stressors. Teens […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the most impactful ways to improve well-being is by activating the power of food as medicine for mental health. Research shows that what we eat can prevent or […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Remember those five high schoolers from The Breakfast Club? If someone made a sequel to that movie, set 10 years later, what would each of them be doing? And how […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes According to recent research, young people suffer from loneliness far more than any other age group. A study published in July 2021 found that twice as many adolescents experience loneliness today […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Scromiting is a new term for a disturbing health trend related to teen marijuana use. It combines two words: screaming and vomiting. Teens suffering from this marijuana-induced condition experience episodes […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and this year it’s more important than ever before for parents, healthcare providers, teachers, and teenagers themselves to understand the key elements of […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Parents know that drugs are harmful for their teen, but they might not know what specific drugs look like and how to identify them. This is important information, however, because […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The new Netflix documentary Pray Away is spreading awareness about the devastating impact of the “ex-gay” movement on LGBTQ teen and young adult mental health. The film examines so-called conversion […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sadfishing—you’ve probably seen it on your social media feeds, even if you didn’t know the name for it. A teary-eyed selfie, or few cryptic lines about how bad the person […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Teens in Utah, and throughout the Mountain West of the United States, are struggling more than ever before, and accessing safe and effective behavioral healthcare […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Olympic gymnast Simone Biles dropped out of the team competition at the Tokyo Games on July 27 to focus on her mental health, she set a positive example for […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Like technology in general, social media has both an upside and a downside. And when it comes to the social media effects on teens, those pros and cons are particularly […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes When teens cut themselves or inflict self-harm in any way, parents’ primary fear is that they are suicidal. In most cases of teen cutting, however, that is not the case. […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Crossing the bridge from childhood to adolescence is an exciting time for kids—but for parents, it can sometimes feel like trekking across unknown territory filled with quicksand and wild animals. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Given recent increases in mental health issues and substance abuse, residential treatment centers for teens in New York are in high demand.
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a common question that parents ask, and it’s worth noting that it’s not unusual for a teen to be angry, sometimes really angry. Because adolescents are changing so […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we emerge from the pandemic and look back on the last year, the individual and collective losses associated with COVID-19 can seem overwhelming for all of us. And teens […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth face the same challenges that all teens grapple with during this time of life—and they also must cope with an additional […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes As the mental health repercussions of the pandemic become clear, an increasing number of teenagers in Fairfield County and throughout the state of Connecticut need support for depression, anxiety, trauma, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic has led to a rise in what’s known as conversion disorder. What is conversion disorder exactly? In a nutshell, it’s a disorder in which emotional issues such as […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes Teenager borderline personality disorder symptoms can be confusing, frustrating, and hard for both teens and their loved ones to understand. Because a teen’s personality is still developing at their age, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes The terms “mania” and “manic episode” describe a state of mind characterized by high energy, excitement, and euphoria over a sustained period of time, typically followed by feelings of depression. […]
