The Misdiagnosis of ADHD in Girls

By |2024-03-04T17:00:01-06:00May 23rd, 2011|ADHD|

Undiagnosed, the difficulty completing tasks, focusing, and staying organized can lead a young woman to feel confused, frustrated, depressed, and "dumb." However, when properly diagnosed ADHD can be effectively addressed through coaching, instruction, counseling, accommodations, diet, and sometimes medication. It can be an enormous relief for a young woman to realize that there is an explanation for her longstanding social, emotional, and learning difficulties—an explanation that can be effectively treated.

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Socially Contagious Behaviors

By |2024-03-05T11:58:35-06:00May 18th, 2011|Relationships|

Socially contagious behaviors include bullying; dangerous games such as the choking game, high-risk dares, and drinking games, hitting games, etc.; promiscuity or high-risk sexual behaviors; eating disordered behaviors such as binging, chronic overeating, purging or restricting; drug and alcohol abuse; cutting and other forms of self-harm; and almost any other negative behavior that occurs with frequency among adolescents.

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Asperger Treatment in a Mixed-Population Program

By |2024-03-05T11:39:12-06:00May 11th, 2011|Autism Spectrum / Aspergers|

While more severe forms of ASD require specialized care, many children and teens with Asperger’s disorder find themselves in mainstream settings and/or more broad-based treatment programs. This approach increases the young person’s access to normalized social situations in which they can learn better social skills experientially through contact with a more diverse peer population.

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Teen Drug Abuse: Staying Informed About Designer Drugs

By |2011-05-08T08:23:27-06:00May 8th, 2011|Substance Abuse|

Parents and others concerned with the safety of young people do well to understand trends in the use of legal and easily accessed intoxicants. Information can help parents and others detect dangerous substance abuse and, just as importantly, engage their teen with accurate information and informed concern.

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"Legal" But Deadly Drug Abuse In Teens

By |2011-05-03T14:58:17-06:00May 3rd, 2011|Substance Abuse|

Since thousands upon thousands of everyday substances can, in adequate dosages, cause an altered mental, emotional, or physical state, it’s impossible to catalogue all of them. It’s also impossible for parents or law enforcement to entirely stay ahead of, monitor, or regulate the use of these dangerous alternatives to illegal drugs and alcohol. Nonetheless, parents and others concerned with the safety of young people do well to understand trends in the use of legal and easily accessed intoxicants. Information can help parents and others detect dangerous substance abuse and, just as importantly, engage their teen with accurate information and informed concern.

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