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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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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Speaking up About Bullying

Jonathan Martin is a 312 pound, 6’5” tackler for the Miami Dolphins. And yet he was relentlessly subjected to bullying that included racial slurs, intense verbal abuse, harassment, threats against...

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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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Small in Stature, Big in Heart

Matthew Jeffers was born with a rare form of dwarfism, called Skeletal Dysplasia, but that has never dampened his extraordinary life philosophy that “the only real adversity is a bad...

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Tips for Clinicians: Helping your Eating Disordered Client Survive the Holidays

by Sharon R. Peterson, LCSW-C Founding Director of: Eating Disorder Network of Maryland The holidays are not relaxing and fun for everyone, especially those with an eating disorder (E/D). They...

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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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