Getting To Know Your Teen: Therapy for Teens in Philadelphia, Mechanicsville, Ocean City, Santa Fe: One day, you reflect on your relationship with your teenager .. Read More Adult Version of Pillow Fights The adult version of pillow fighting. When was the last time you engaged in a pillow...
This may seem obvious, but it isn't always. For example, achildorteenagermay act up in response to a family-related issue. We instinctively want to treat the behaviour, but a family therapist may help more. Romantic relationshipsare often similar; one partner has clear symptoms, buta practis...
Is your teenager getting harder and harder to live with every day? Does it seem like all they want to do is sleep and they won’t even get up to go hang out with their friends? These can be signs of depression and it is common in teens and young adults. Luckily, the City of Lo...
Have you seen this alarming article yet? ‘Picky’ teen goes blind after diet of only fries and chips, study says. Apparently a British teenager refused to eat anything but “french fries, Pringles, white bread, processed […] Read More... ...
Yeshiva Girl is about a Jewish teenager on Long Island, named Isabel, though her father calls her Jezebel. Her father has been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with one of his students, which he denies, but Izzy implicitly believes it’s true. As a result of his problems, her fathe...
When I am 80, I will be “cute” and “adorable” instead of “trying too hard”. I can proclaim with confidence, like Betty White, “I am a teenager trapped in an old body.” I am giddy at the prospect of giving people a piece of my mind. Or two. I am giddy at the prospect...
When "Linda" was 6 weeks old, her mother became gravely ill and was hospitalized for several weeks. Linda was passed around to different relatives, none of them parents, until her mother returned home. After that Linda, was different, sometimes frantic, sometimes shut down. As a teenager, ...
This includes understanding the development and attachment style of a young child, the importance and difficulty of parent and friend relationships for a teenager, and the growth and change that occurs as an adult. Our clients are ready to learn ways to gain a deeper understanding of themselves...
can be better understood assurvival strategiesthat have outlived their usefulness. I had a client who was deeply ashamed of having cut himself repeatedly as ateenager. A psychiatrist had prescribedmedicationto control his self-harming behavior, a symptom of whatever disorder he’d been diagnosed ...
Similar neighborhood-focused groups were around in Chicago during Durk’s upbringing, but he admits their impact on him as a teenager was limited. Against his mother and grandmother’s wishes, Durk strayed from school into the streets —“I was trying to be somebody I wasn...