Dear Trouble Teen Blog, As your administrator I think about you all the time. Sadly the situation has gotten worse I never thought it would get to this place. Now I am not sure if there is a bottom.
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Mental Health
School-based mental health screening for teens results in connection to care. Adolescence is an important window for intervention because 50 percent of all lifetime mental health disorders start by age 14, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Untreated depression and other mental health problems can lead to school failure, drug and alcohol abuse, [...]
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Training in Positive Thinking May Help Anxious Teens – iVillage. Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom found that training youth to bring a bias toward either positive or negative interpretations of unclear social situations could influence how the teens felt about those interactions and their subsequent mood. Read More http://www.ivillage.com/training-positive-thinking-may-help-anxious-teens/4-a-364796#ixzz1S6i7w6lk
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If you are dealing with a troubled teen you know this scenario all to well. The choices and tradeoffs we make and the stress it causes on the household. At the beginning of our journey with my troubled teen my husband and I lost almost a year of work trying to deal with my sons [...]
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I am honored to have this guest post by my friend Dustin Tibbits the executive director at New Haven RTC , a treatment facility with recovery programs for adolescent girls and young women experiencing emotional or behavioral difficulties. All I can add is Dustin has done it again, read the entire post it is very powerful. [...]
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RESOURCES FOR PARENTS PBS will be featuring a 3-part TV series in Jan. 2010, on our emotional lives. The series opens a window into real lives, exploring ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals. This Emotional Life, also offers an informative website worth the visit with a [...]
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I just learned today that teens or people 18-22 years old are in “nowhere land” when it comes to mental health. They no longer fit with the high school teen groups and they are not appropriate for the adult groups. We had this same problem when my son was 11 and 12 years old. He [...]
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This link has references to definitions of some of the common terms used to diagnose teen problems and disorders: Science Reference . New information on the Depression And Anxiety Disorders Of Adolescents The DSM is also another great reference.
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