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Raising A Teenager: Time To Stop Rescuing
Raising a teen is no easy business because the rules of good parenting must change very quickly to keep pace with the developmental changes occurring within the teen.

Does Your Teen Skip School?
Many parents miss the underlying root of school avoidance because they treat it as simple defiance.

Sexual Promiscuity: Influence vs. Control
Parents who generally engage in controlling rather than influencing parenting styles have a higher probability of raising sexually active teens.

Working with Victims of Abuse
In treating victims of abuse, the therapist's first job is to develop a relationship where there is love, safety and trust.

Emotional Dysregulation and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Many young people who suffer from disorders such as borderline personality disorder or intense depression have great difficulty regulating their emotions.

Dual Diagnosis
A good dual diagnosis treatment strategy addresses the fact that the co-occurring substance abuse and mental health issue(s) interact in a way that can create a compounded effect.

What's Special About Equine Therapy?
Everyone knows that horses are used for transportation, recreation and herding cattle. What you may not know is that they've also used for many years to help treat neuromuscular disorders, Alzheimer's, autism and severe physical injuries.

Substance Abuse Treatment
The substance abuse process can lead to a lifetime of positive growth not only for your child, but for your whole family.

Gifted Child, Troubled Teen
An understanding of the reasons behind this correlation of gifted and talented with troubled can help parents, professionals and the troubled teen herself proceed with more compassion, understanding and hope.

Adolescent Defiance Mild to Severe
Even mildly resistant behavior can feel like defiance to all involved, leading to parental frustration and adolescent resentment and guilt.

Adolescence and Manipulation
The teenager's drive for independence is often at odds with a parent's desire to control and manage the child's behavior.

Alternative Schools
A setting and teaching style that works brilliantly for one student may be grossly ineffective for another equally talented student.

Experiential Techniques and BPD
Therapeutic experiences address the issue of abandonment at the core of borderline traits and are central to the healing process.

Equine Therapy
Equine-assisted psychotherapy, or equine therapy, uses horses to engage teens and young adults in a manner that artfully addresses their conflicting feelings of invincibility and fragility.

Surviving Your Adolescent's Adolescence
For most adolescents, the path to adulthood is twisty, bumpy and, well, crazy.

Finding Help For Your Anorexic Teen
Anorexia has been around for centuries and has social, familial, and possibly genetic causes.

Adolescence, Food, and Mood
Whether your daughter is experiencing the regular ups and downs of adolescence, a major life trauma, or an ongoing mood disorder, food choices can have a powerful impact on her moods and her ability to navigate emotional bumps.

What To Look For In A Multisystemic Treatment Program
Multisystemic treatment, or MST, is a comprehensive treatment model for adolescents with behavioral and emotional issues.

Fighting Fire With Water: Being Truthful To Your Dishonest Teen
A truthful approach to parenting can foster trust, connection, and respect.

Teen Depression
Depression is one of the most common mood disorders experienced by teens, and can lead to academic disruption, social isolation or school avoidance, and even suicide if not addressed.

Attachment Disorder
With the right interventions and family support, a young person with attachment issues can experience significant healing.

Teen Cutting
Many compulsive cutters desperately want help addressing this addiction but don't know where to turn.

DBT and Borderline Personality Disorder
DBT is a therapy designed to address the challenges traditional therapies have faced in addressing borderline personality disorder.

Surviving the Holidays
For those who have experienced a loss-whether through divorce, a custody arrangement, death, etc.-the absence of someone normally central to the holidays can trigger feelings of profound grief.

Why Single-Gender Therapeutic Boarding Schools Work
Just as it is critical to find a therapeutic boarding school that specializes in your daughter's specific treatment issues, it can be important as well to select a program that will meet her needs as a young woman.

Suicide Prevention for Teens
Many variables can predispose a troubled teen to consider suicide. Learn how to recognize the suicide risk signs before it is too late.

Does Your Teen Have Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness characterized by extreme fluctuations in mood. Because this illness manifests differently in adults and adolescents, the adolescent version of the disease is easily misdiagnosed and misunderstood.

Treatment Options for Teen ADHD
ADHD is one of the most studied learning disabilities and there are several effective treatment options available.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Diabetes
Patients with borderline personality disorder and diabetes must be handled carefully because their moods affect how well they take care of themselves, and their moods change frequently and dramatically.

10 Questions to Help You Select the Best Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program for Your Daughter
The following questions can help you make the best match between your daughter and the drug treatment or alcohol treatment program you select for her.

Emptying the Nest
A popular metaphor for describing the transition from adolescence to adulthood is that of the eagle pushing her young forcibly and abruptly out of the nest. This image hardly offers us a model for parenting or educating adolescents.

Helping Young Women with Borderline Personality Disorder Navigate the Supernova Romance
By helping coach young women to set appropriate relational boundaries and to move through instead of around pain, we can help them break their self-destructive coping pattern.

Tips for De-escalating Instead of Re-escalating a Crisis Situation
By implementing these seven tips, we can engage other's emotional explosions in ways that calm and heal, turning into surprising opportunities for growth.

The Tragedy of Unreported Rapes and Unacknowledged Rape Victims
Irene Kotter shows us the tragic impact of unacknowledged rapes, and arms us with critical knowledge to help young victims end their silence and heal from sexual assault.

Create A Lasting Connection With Your Children
Learn about the role rituals and traditions can play in strengthening family bonds and parent-child relationships.

Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens
Personality is a strange concept. It doesn't exist in the physical world and is therefore difficult to define. And yet, we have a pattern of behaviors, a pattern of thoughts, and a pattern of feelings.

Anxiety and Adolescence
There are many challenges for parents and adolescents during puberty. However, it is also an exciting time when new skills can be learned, a foundation for adult relationships can be laid, and progress can occur in family relationships.

Self Harm
Self-harm is unhealthy coping strategy that some individuals use when dealing with emotional pain. Its causes range from past trauma and pain, having difficulty with expressing oneself, and lacking healthy coping strategies.