When a teenager is struggling, the instinct is to fix the teenager. Get them a therapist. Get them on the right medication. Get them to stop. But teens do not live in a vacuum. They live in families, and the patterns in a family shape how a teen feels, behaves, and heals. That is the …
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Psychodrama Therapy for Teens
Some teens can sit across from a therapist and talk about what hurts. Many cannot. They shrug, say “I don’t know,” or stare at the floor. For these teens, psychodrama therapy offers a different door in. Instead of describing a feeling, they get up and act it out. Psychodrama has been used for nearly a …
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Teen Alcohol Abuse & Treatment
Alcohol is still the substance teens use most, and it is also the one parents are most likely to shrug off. “It is just beer.” “We all did it.” But a teenager’s brain and body respond to alcohol very differently than an adult’s, and what starts as weekend drinking can slide into something far more …
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Munchausen Syndrome in Teenagers: What to Know
A teen who keeps getting sick with no clear cause. Symptoms that shift from visit to visit. Test results that never match the story. Most of the time, there is a medical explanation that simply has not been found yet. Occasionally, the explanation is psychological. Munchausen syndrome, now known clinically as factitious disorder imposed on …
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Adolescent OCD Residential Treatment
Obsessive-compulsive disorder can take over a teenager’s life quietly. The hours spent rechecking, the rituals before bed, the questions asked again and again for reassurance. By the time many parents realize what is happening, their teen is exhausted, falling behind, and ashamed of thoughts they cannot turn off. OCD is not rare in young people. …
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