Your teen gets good grades, shows up to practice, laughs with friends, and tells you everything is fine. From the outside, there is nothing to worry about. Inside, they may be fighting something much heavier. This is smiling depression, and it is one of the hardest forms of teen depression for parents to see. Depression …
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Family Systems Therapy for Teens
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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