Important Topics

Relationship: The Key To Treating Self-Harm
Part 2 of 3 - The first step toward helping someone who canÕt seem to stop harming herself is to engage in a relationship of safety, respect, compassion, and trust.

Self-Harm: Why Teens Do It
Part 1 of 3 - Self-Harm is an increasingly pervasive symptom of emotional distress among adolescent girls.

Equine Therapy
With the help of a human equine therapist, human-horse interactions become powerful metaphors for human relationships and situations.

Manipulation Mitigation
In most cases, fortunately, the impact of manipulative behavior can be mitigated with some simple strategies.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Experiential Treatment
One of the hallmarks of borderline personality traits is a fear of real or imagined abandonment. Therapeutic experiences address the issue of abandonment at the core of borderline traits.

What Makes Dual Diagnosis Different?
Dual diagnosis can require an integrated approach to treatment that is delivered by a single team of caregivers whose approach is philosophically congruent, intensely collaborative and well coordinated.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, is a synthesis of several therapeutic approaches that was designed primarily to treat disorders involving emotional dysregulation.

Substance Abuse Treatment as a Process
While substance abuse and addiction are treatable disorders, treatment does not always mean a discreet procedure or treatment, but an ongoing, multiphasic and systemic process.

Gifted and Talented - and Troubled
Troubled teens who eventually find their way into treatment programs often started their academic careers with the deceptively positive gifted and talented label.

Neurological Reconditioning for Trauma
Neurologically re-conditioning memories can be a powerful therapy when administered in a safe and loving therapeutic milieu.

The Defiant Teen
The best approach to treating defiant disorders is a multi-modal approach that hits the issue from a variety of complementary angles.

The Suicidal Adolescent
Despite dire statistics regarding teen suicide, there is much that can be done to reduce suicide risk and to treat the causes of suicidal impulses.

Hope For Attachment Disorder
Attachment disorder can be profoundly painful for parents because it impacts their ability to have reciprocal closeness and connection with their child.

What Is Equine-Assisted Therapy?
Equine therapy is an emerging but research-supported treatment approach that utilizes horse-handling activities to engage even therapy-resistant clients.

Adolescent Cutting
Cutting is the most commonly practiced form of self-harm among adolescents, however, many therapies have proven effective to stop this self-harming behavior.

Teen Depression: Warning Signs And Treatments
While adolescent depression shares many symptoms with adult depression, there are some differences as well.

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT
DBT is a therapy designed to address the challenges traditional therapies have faced in addressing Borderline Personality Disorder

Understanding Alternative Schools Means Understanding Your Child
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to instruction and, in fact, a setting and teaching style that works brilliantly for one student may be grossly ineffective for another equally talented student.

Helping Diabetics with Borderline Personality Disorder
Addressing the borderline personality disorder in a focused and consistent manner can open the door to more effective medical treatment and, therefore, long-term safety and health.

Multisystemic Therapy
A good MST program can powerfully and permanently help young people with longstanding behavioral issues heal and succeed.

Treating ADHD In Adolescents
ADHD is one of the most studied psychological disorders and there are several effective treatment options available.

Surviving Adolescence...As a Parent
If you're the parent of an adolescent, one of the keys to effectively caring for your child is to effectively care for yourself.

Anorexia: Detection And Intervention
Anorexia has been around for centuries and has social, familial, and possibly genetic causes.

The Truth About Parenting a Teen
A truthful approach to parenting can foster trust, connection, and respect.

Top Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs for Girls
These 10 questions can help you make the best match between your daughter and the drug treatment or alcohol treatment program you select for her.

How Diet can Impact Anxiety and Depression
In a culture that seems to have a pill for everything, it's easy to overlook the power of dietary choices to improve not only physical well-being, but emotional well being.

Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Girls
Over the last decade, treatment options have become increasingly specialized and have included gender-specific programming.

Bipolar Disorder In Teens
Bipolar disorder in teens can evolve into a serious life-threatening condition. Therefore, it is important that parents understand the disease and its treatment.

The Divided Child
The best schools treat students as whole persons whose many parts-mind, body, spirit, relationships-merge and blur inextricably.

Helping Adolescent Girls with Borderline Personality Disorder
Clear, consistent, lovingly-applied, somewhat strict boundaries create a climate of security and predictability for teens with BPD

A Parent's Guide to Managing Anxiety During 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.

The Truth About Cutting and Self-Harm
In this article, therapist Janette Davenport discusses the true causes of cutting and self-harming behavior.

Family Traditions Strengthen Family Relationships
Family traditions can play a powerful role in adolescent development, family wellness, and sibling relationships.

Unacknowledged Rapes: Combating Rape Myths to Help Teen Girls in Treatment
By letting young women know the facts about rape, we can lower the emotional boundaries that keep them suffering in silence.

Teenage Girls with BPD: Working Through the Explosive Relationship Cycle
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.

Managing Crisis: Tips to Help you Stay in Control and De-Escalate the Situation
By implementing a few key strategies, we can engage other's emotional explosions in ways that calm and heal, turning a crises into surprising opportunities for growth.