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Why Do Teens Run Away From Home?
It’s a situation that can break your heart and fill you with so much fear. Your teen has run away from home. Perhaps this is the first time, or maybe it’s something you’ve experienced on more than one occasion. Your teen running away from home can leave you with so...
Types of Psychotherapy Used at Troubled Teen Centers
Finding suitable treatment options for your troubled teen is crucial to ensuring he has the best opportunities to recover. At Help Your Teen Now, your teen will have access to several therapy types that can offer him the help that he can best benefit from. Knowing...
Treatments for Paranoid Personality Disorder
A diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder in your teen can be worrisome and even a bit overwhelming. Understanding just what this disorder is and how it can be best treated can help remove some of the mystery and fear surrounding the diagnosis. If your teen has...
What is a Group Home for Teens?
When your teen is struggling, it can be difficult for all family members to know the best ways to interact with them, help them, and guide them towards making the healthiest decisions. A group home may not be something that you've previously considered, particularly...
What is a Motivational School for Teens?
Does your teen struggle with behavioral issues? Is your teen son acting aggressive, angry, violent, and more? While getting help for him and other family members, you may have encountered recommendations of sending him to an alternative school. Whether you’ve heard...
Tips for Parents Dealing With Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) can be a complicated situation for parents to navigate. This disorder results from a disruption to the all-important bonding process that should take place between children and parents in those early formative childhood years. To...
ADHD: A Parents Guide To Understanding Your Teen
Has your teen recently been diagnosed with ADHD? It could be that you’ve spent years with the wrong diagnosis, not getting your child the right type of therapy needed. ADHD can bring several complexities and challenges for parents and everyone in the family. Learning...
9 Ways Parents of Bipolar Teens Can Help
If your teen has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you may feel overwhelmed as you consider how you can help. Parenting a bipolar teen can be frustrating and stressful. You must take care of your own needs and avoid blaming yourself for the challenging behavior...
What to Expect When Sending Your Teen to Therapeutic Boarding School
As the parent of a troubled teen, you need to find a solution that will work for your child. Plenty of teenagers respond well to interventions at home and see great success. They learn strategies to overcome their troubles and function well in school and at home....
How to Help Your Violent Teen Manage Their Anger
No parent is truly ever prepared to see their teen erupt in violent behavior. Whether the angry behavior is being expressed at school or home, or both, it can lead to a world of confusion and questions for parents who now need to navigate life with a teen prone to...
5 Tips to Find the Right Therapeutic Boarding School
When your teen is struggling with behavioral problems or mental illness concerns, it’s essential to find the best resources to help them find their way back to stability. If you’ve decided to get your troubled teen into a therapeutic boarding school, you must select...
Why Eating Disorders Among Teens Are On The Rise
The pandemic has taken a toll on each of us. For teens, it has almost flipped their world upside down. From missing important sporting events to losing time with friends at parties and sleepovers, teens have struggled immensely. There has been a noticeable increase in...
What Screen Time is Doing To Teens
We live in an increasingly connected world, with an increasing reliance on gadgets in our lives. When was the last time that everyone in your family went a full day without looking at a screen? Screen time is unavoidable, it seems, even for our teens. They need their...
The Most Commonly Used Drugs by Teens
According to several studies conducted over the last decade, there have been declining numbers of teens using illicit drugs. That said, there are still many teens who experiment with, use, and abuse both drugs and alcohol. Their reasonings may vary, and the level of...
Why Are ADHD Rates Rising?
Have a conversation with other parents, and you’ll find that many of them will speak about their children and teens, and even themselves, having been diagnosed with ADHD. It can feel like there are increasing ADHD diagnoses being seen across ages and genders, leading...