According to the latest statistics, the prospect of you or someone in your family being involved in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident is more than just very likely it’s almost a virtual certainty. And a large number of these accidents are due to teens and drunk driving. In fact, if you’re part of a typical [...]
Studies indicate that by the senior year in high school over sixty percent of teenagers in the United States have had teen sex. It is stated that thirty four percent of teenagers are getting pregnant at least once before the age of twenty and of that number over eighty percent are high school age teens. [...]
Categories: Prevention
Which teenagers are at high risk for such behaviors as drug or alcohol use, dropping out of school, pregnancy, violence, depression, or suicide? And which teens really need help for troubled teen programs? One of the difficulties parents of teens face is how to recognize the more subtle indicators of such behavioral problems and when [...]
Categories: Parenting Solutions
So what you may ask is adolescent conduct disorder? You might even be thinking “Don’t all teens have some sort of conduct disorder? No, conduct disorder as a mental health diagnosable disorder is more severe than just everyday adolescent misbehavior, difficult teens or rebellion. Here is a working definition. Children and adolescents with conduct disorder [...]
Categories: Teen Disorders
Many treatment programs for adolescents with alcohol, drugs and other addictions will use what is well known as the ’12 Steps’. How can 12 step programs help those teens seeking recovery? First let’s take a look at where it all began. The 12-step program is synonymous to Alcoholics Anonymous, which is where it originated. The [...]
Categories: Addictions
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