Posts Tagged ‘Teen Therapy’
Parents: What You Need To Know About Teen Eating Disorders
What you need to know about teen eating disorders. Are you concerned about your teen developing an eating disorder? As a caring parent, the worry about your teen falling prey to societal ideas of body image that are less than healthy has probably crossed your mind a time or two—especially if you have a daughter.…
Read MoreIs Your Teen Questioning Their Sexuality? – Learn How You Can Support Them
Is your teen questioning their sexuality? For some teenagers, their sexual orientation is clear from the very start. For others, not so much. At one time or another during their adolescence, many teens find themselves in the process of figuring out where they are in connection with their sexuality. While that is a fairly common…
Read MoreAre Racing Thoughts Keeping Your Teen Awake? – 7 Helpful Tips
Are racing thoughts keeping your teen awake? Thoughts Keeping Your Teen Awake? Somehow, society has painted the picture that all teenagers are compulsive night owls and sleep in every morning. While that may be so for many on weekends, parents shouldn’t quickly assume their teen is on the way to becoming a classic slacker just…
Read More4 Steps to De-Escalate Your Teen and Stop the Screaming Matches
De-Escalate Your Teen and Stop the Screaming Matches “You’re not being fair!” “Just DO IT!” “I’m not a child anymore. Stop telling me what to do!” “If you’d act like an adult, I wouldn’t have to tell you what to do!” “Just leave me ALONE!!” The words are followed by a door slamming. — Sounds…
Read MoreParenting with Insight: Facts About Teen Depression and How You Can Help
Facts About Teen Depression The teenage years can bring a lot of ups and downs. In general, many teenagers have a tendency to be moody, unruly, self-centered, and highly emotional. All of which falls under normal adolescent behavior. But at times, there can be more. Some teens battle with bouts of depression. They’re unmotivated, indifferent,…
Read MoreCutting to Cope: Understanding the Mechanism Behind Self Injury
Mechanism Behind Self Injury Absentmindedly and unintentionally, you step into the bathroom to put up some freshly folded towels just as your daughter exits the shower. Her eyes widen. She quickly wraps the towel around herself. But you’ve already seen what she’s trying to conceal. – Scars and partially healed wounds. You freeze and stare…
Read MoreExposure Therapy: Why Directly Confronting Fears Help OCD Sufferers
Directly Confronting Fears Help OCD Sufferers The most natural reaction to something we fear—be that people, objects, or situations—is usually to avoid it. Unfortunately, though, that innate action is often the least helpful response. Think, for example, of someone that suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The urge to eliminate or avoid something that they fear—contamination,…
Read MoreTeen OCD and PANDAS: Is There a Connection Between the Two?
Teen OCD and PANDAS PANDAS—Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with cute black and white animals. To the contrary, it’s actually a scary condition that some have estimated affects 1 in 200 children. But what does it have to do with teen OCD? Understanding PANDAS PANDAS usually…
Read MoreHow to Survive Your Teens Mood Swings and Maybe Even Help Them Out
Without much warning and often little provocation, the beast awakens. You brace yourself. A little fear even flashes in your eyes. With eye rolling, snarky comments, snapping, and yelling, your teenager unleashes their attitude. Like a ferocious and unpredictable monster, they tear into everything and everyone around them. At least… that’s how you may perceive…
Read MoreHow to Understand and Coach Your Unmotivated Teen Successfully
Do you worry about your teen’s lack of motivation? Does it make you beg, bribe, coax, nag, or push them to “motivate” action? Do you get so frustrated at times that you resort to yelling, screaming, or punishing? If you imagine that this will lead your teen to become self-motivated you’re fooling yourself. Your actions…
Read MoreYour Teen Tried Marijuana? 7 Tips to Help You Handle It
It’s a sad but true fact that marijuana has become the most popular drug with junior high and high schoolers. Statistics show that it’s not at all unusual for children to be offered the opportunity to try it sometime during their teenage years. Although you probably knew this, it becomes much more personal when you…
Read MoreDoes Your Child Have Asperger’s? 10 Signs to Look For
“His words were gushing out like a waterfall. I watched him pace back and forth in the room, recounting the statistics he had read in a book about baseball – his great passion. I knew a lot of people didn’t understand him. They often found his behavior annoying and odd. “All his life, he had…
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