Most families arrive at an adolescent treatment program with a version of the same script in mind. Something is wrong. Find the professionals. Hand the teenager over. Wait for a better version to come back. It is an understandable way to think about care, and it mirrors how families approach most medical treatment. For adolescent […]
October is ADHD Awareness Month, which means a lot of adults will read something this month and recognize themselves in it. The description of a mind that will not settle, of tasks that never get started, of a life that feels harder to manage than it seems to be for everyone else. That recognition is […]
Get practical tips for discussing mental health and substance use with your teen in a calm, compassionate way.
Learn the key emotional, behavioral, and social warning signs that may indicate your teen needs professional mental health support.
Substance use disorder and trauma exist in a reciprocal relationship, and distinguishing the origin of one from the other is often impossible. One does not wake up one day with the thought, “perhaps I will derail my life with substances.” The behaviors associated with substance misuse are expressions of deeper underlying emotional trauma; the substance […]
Families searching for mental health treatment are quickly handed a bowl of alphabet soup: DBT, CBT, EMDR, ACT, and countless other acronyms presented as proof of clinical sophistication. Program websites stack these letters like credentials, but rarely explain what treatment will actually look like, how those approaches will be used, or why they should help […]
