A Virtual Community for Young Adults Living with Mental Illness
We all want someone to understand us when we nervously admit to some quirky, obsessive habit or finally acknowledge that maybe we are not as happy as we seem.
Finding the Right Program or School
Parents (and their advisers) must thoroughly examine schools and programs before deciding which is likely to be most appropriate.
Parenting a Struggling Teen: Thinking Beyond the Crisis
Understandably, parents of struggling teens often are preoccupied with immediate crises.
Programs for Struggling Teens: Ideal Features- Part III
The professional literature on adolescent development and programs for struggling teens suggests that, ideally, programs should have a number of key features.
Confronting Social Disparities
One of the most troubling realities of the struggling teens industry is that many of the youths with the greatest
Responding to struggling teens: The need for balance
Many struggling teens rebel against structure.
Programs for Struggling Teens: Youth Diversion Programs
Youth diversion programs typically attempt to help struggling teens who have had contact with the police avoid more formal involvement in the juvenile justice system (that is, juvenile courts and correctional facilities).
Programs for Struggling Teens: Ideal Features- Part I
Parents of struggling teens often feel desperate to find the “right” program or school for their child.
Sheila Marcus, M.D.
Dr. Marcus is a Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan, currently Section Chief for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Women’s Perinatal Psychiatry Program.
She joined the faculty of the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry in 1991 and became the Division Director in the Adult Ambulatory Psychiatry in 1996. In 2001, Dr. Marcus began her work with the Women’s and Perinatal Depression Program along with her role as Clinical Director of the Depression Center. Dr. Marcus was appointed Section Director of...
Parenting a Struggling Teen: Forming a United Front
Parents of a struggling teen sometimes find it difficult to coordinate their parenting styles and strategies.