After a person leaves a residential treatment unit, it will take some time for them to readjust back into regular life, and one without drugs or alcohol. Recovery isn’t finished when a person leaves treatment—it is an ongoing part of life they will need to adapt to.
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Parenting teens can be difficult. The closer to adulthood children get, the more likely they are to try to push away from their parents and become their own person. However, some teens push particularly hard, creating more conflict in teen family dynamics —especially if they suffer from mental health disorders or substance abuse. The difficulty …
Teens can take an obsessive involvement in certain activities such as gambling, Internet use, video games and eating; this is known as process addiction (or behavioral addiction). Below are six tips you can use to help your teen if they suffer from a process addiction.
It’s important for parents, teachers, and other caregivers, such as staff at teen rehab treatment centers, to be able to guide children and teens through healthy social-emotional development stages of their growth. To help with this, an understanding of some basic psychology is worthwhile. A psychologist by the name of Erik Erikson identified eight specific psychological …
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