The Rise of Teen Dating Violence and Ways You Can Intervene

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. This issue is far more prevalent than people think. In the Unites States one in three teens will experience emotional, sexual, or physical...

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The Adolescent Brain and Substance Abuse

Two great quotes can be found in Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Research Based Guide:  “The adolescent brain is often likened to a car with a fully functioning...

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Helping Kids Transition “Back to School”

Last week I was reminiscing with my three grown sons about how we used to do our annual back to school ritual of shopping for school supplies. I think it...

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Helping Parents Navigate their Child’s Addiction

It’s understandable that one of the scariest issues a parent has to confront is the reality that their son or daughter is abusing drugs or alcohol. The immediate desire to...

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The Adolescent Brain: A work in progress

There is so much new and exciting research in the literature reminding us that the developing brain of an adolescent is truly different from that of a young child or...

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It’s So Easy to Blame the Victims

I have to be totally honest- when I heard about Janay Rice’s decision to stay with and marry Ray Rice, after being brutally knocked unconscious by him and then dragged...

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The Adolescent Brain

Currently, I have two cases in my practice that prove that sometimes adolescents struggle even when they come from loving and safe families.  It’s not always the case that kids...

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Off to College- A Lesson in Attachment

Those of you who have trained with me in the past, are well aware that I take great stock in the impact that either secure, insecure, ambivalent, avoidant or disorganized...

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A Quick Primer on Early Primary Relationships

By, Kate Oliver, MSW, LCSW-C Attachment is the relationship people develop with our early caregivers that shape how we form connections to other people throughout our lives as well as...

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