Teens can be very vulnerable to the pressures in the world today. Being a teenager can be difficult under any circumstances but with peer pressure and family issues on the rise today and a greater availability to illicit and prescription drugs, the temptations can often be too great…
While you may feel as though you face a number of difficulties of your own each day as you go to work, pay the bills and take care of what is needed to run your family, the pressures and situations facing your teenager each day can be…
In California, marijuana is all but legal. Medical marijuana dispensaries are prevalent throughout the state. Our public discourse extols the benefits and relative harmlessness of the drug. Every California ballot includes a proposition to “Legalize It.” But although marijuana may have medicinal merits, we must be wary of…
Trauma can affect different people in different ways. For some, it will impact their relationships, professional lives and mental well being for years after the event itself. We have all heard and read about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which delineates the psychological effects of trauma. While…
As the nation’s divorce rate continues to ascend, the dissolution of marriage vows has lost much of its stigma. For many unhappy couples, the decision to separate is difficult to make, but it is not ridden with the same sense of guilt and shame that it was years…
While the general public becomes increasingly aware of the prevalence of cutting among teenagers, it remains difficult to assess and treat. According to a recent study, due to a lack of standardized assessment tools and the absence of a clear-cut definition of what self-harm actually is, it is…
Author: Los Angeles Times L.A. County health officials warn against using the drug, which has been linked to a number of bizarre incidents and arrests nationwide. Los Angeles County health officials warned Tuesday against the use of bath salts — the designer drug involved in a series of…
Author: Psychology Today (via Kenneth Ginsburg) Perfectionism Undercuts the Core Ingredients Needed for Success The race to perfection is having a toxic impact on this generation and therefore our future. The article “Super People” by James Atlas (New York Times 10/2/11) describes the distorted reality that our young…
Author: New York Times He steered into the high school parking lot, clicked off the ignition and scanned the scraps of his recent weeks. Crinkled chip bags on the dashboard. Soda cups at his feet. And on the passenger seat, a rumpled SAT practice book whose owner had…
Author: New York Times Teenagers have been drinking alcohol for centuries. In pre-Revolutionary America, young apprentices were handed buckets of ale. In the 1890’s, at the age of 15, the writer Jack London regularly drank grown sailors under the table.
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