Addressing Suicidality in Teens for National Suicide Awareness Month
Let’s make one thing clear: Mental illness is not a rarity. If anything, it’s pretty common, yet as a society we continue to ignore it and act as ...
School Year Anxiety: The Stress That Gets in the Way of Learning
Each student deals with stress during the school year–it’s natural. Even when a student’s prepared for an upcoming exam, it still produces a...
Importance of Intervention: Depression Can Cause Future Teen Marijuana Use
Teen marijuana use isn’t exactly rare–by the time teens are seniors in high school, over 1 in 3 report having at least experimented with marij...
Certain Video Game Use in Teens Can Negatively Impact Brain Growth
With the technological revolution, we’ve been given many useful and life-changing tools. The internet, phones, computers, tablets–these ha...
Teen Social Isolation Can Lead to Deeper, More Dangerous Issues
We all need alone time. It’s good to take a moment to think, process, and work through things on your own–but that’s not what teen social is...
School for Expelled Students: This Is Not the End of the Road
When your child has ran into issue after issue at school and they finally reach the point of expulsion, it’s hard to stay optimistic. It’s...
Schools for Troubled Teens: Using a ‘Real World’ Setting for Real Change
In schools for troubled teens, a student is usually removed from the “real” world and put into a program that takes away most aspects of that worl...
Teens Using Drugs: A Hidden, Unseen Side of Higher Education
Recent studies show that there are many unexpected young adults and teens using drugs: college students. Being in college can be stressful and hard. I...
Outdoor Classroom Program: Using Nature to Understand the World
It’s not hard to believe that nature has important things to offer–but few would think that you can teach real lessons (like physics!) out in ...
Mindfulness for Teens Could Be as Effective as Individual Therapy
Mindfulness for teens is increasingly being recognized as a real way to keep mental health in shape. Mindfulness meditation is a technique that has be...