A brilliant student, an ardent athlete, a compassionate and responsive teenager, Ben was every parent’s dream teen. Early in his sophomore year his younger brother met with a tragic accident that no one could have foresaw, yet Ben blamed himself. Therapy and counseling could not ease the young man’s guilt but drug and alcohol […]
“What do you have to be depressed about? You have everything you could possibly want,” is often the frustrated parent’s response to a teen who confesses that he or she is depressed. But the fact is, all that the teen does have materially is not necessarily what the teen actually wants or needs. An […]
Britney Spears. As parents anguish over the decision to
employ some kind of crisis intervention for their troubled teen, this former teen star flagrantly throws away the opportunity for a drug and alcohol intervention program that most parents would give their right arm to be able to afford.But there is a lesson to be learned […]