For many people who live with a mental health disorder, including eating disorders, making a choice to go into residential treatment is not only one of the most challenging and difficult but also one of the most vital steps on their path to recovery. For families of teens who are experiencing these struggles, parents must…

Eating disorders are about more than food. They are highly complex health conditions that often require the intervention of both medical and mental health experts to alter both their course and their potential effects. In the United States alone, an estimated twenty million women and ten million men have or have had an eating disorder…

Earlier this spring, when schools closed across the country, many believed it was a temporary measure. The overwhelming thought was that within a few weeks, everything would go back to “normal.” Parents who were working from home would go back to the office, businesses would reopen, and kids would return to school. Within a few…

As the lives of our teens’ transition from the daily cycle of school, sports, work, and homework to school from home, no sports, no jobs, and social distancing practices, social media has become a more significant part of their lives than ever. There are both positive and negative sides to this influx in social media…

Being a teenager is challenging under even the best of circumstances. These are the years of life where many of the most significant events occur. Things like graduation, first dates, first loves and first break-ups, proms, and the list goes on. Unfortunately for teens in 2020, during the time of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there…

In late December, we all watched as China entered mandatory isolation. On the heels of China came several European countries and, eventually, several states across the United States. Mandatory self-isolation or voluntary quarantine is so much more than merely making the conscious choice to stay at home over the weekend. For those who describe themselves…

It has been said online and through various news media outlets that if you want to learn how to “deal with” social distancing just as your teenager. There is a universal thought process that teenagers, second to Bigfoot, are the champions of social distancing. Unfortunately, for several reasons, both emotional and physiological, your teen may…

At one time, not so long ago, treatment for a substance addiction (either drugs or alcohol) was considered to be a separate treatment process from treatment for a mental health disorder. In other words, if you were seeking treatment for one or undergoing treatment for one, therapy for the other had to come at a…

You may be familiar with the term “evidence-based therapy”, but what does that mean exactly? The word “therapy” is used to describe a teen treatment intended to alleviate or cure any type of sickness or disorder. For example, chemotherapy is a drug treatment used to kill cancer cells that grow and divide rapidly in the…

Picky eating is something that most parents are familiar with. If you’ve ever sat at the dinner table trying to coax their toddler to eat just one piece of broccoli, or trying to blackmail their teenager to eat their vegetables before they escape to play video games, you’ll know the problem all-too-well. Many children go…