Adolescents
Addiction And Adolescence
Adolescence is perhaps the most difficult time in a young person’s life. Teens are the most vulnerable to peer pressure, often experimenting with drug or alcohol use without awareness of the potentially devastating damage that can occur with prolonged use. Because the brain is not fully developed during adolescence, changes in the brain from drug or alcohol use occur quickly, making teens even more susceptible to addiction.
Let’s explore more about adolescence with the articles below.
Articles About Adolescents
What Fear Can Teach Us?
Flying back from Munich to San Diego, I came across a German Proverb, “Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” As I contemplated this statement, I realized we all have fears, some of which can be quite imaginative and vocal, which may color the stories we tell...
How do you Deal with Difficult Relationships (Thanks to Adam Brady)
Life is always a series of connections of relationships. Naturally, we want relationships of meaning, of happiness, and of growth. Not all relationships are like that. Most of the time, my team and I deal with folks who have difficult relationships with loved ones....
Social Media Apps -Youth Exploitation and Legislative Oversight- A California update
I was excited to learn that my alma mater, the University of San Diego, their School of Law Children’s Advocacy Institute, along with Republican Jordan Cunningham of Paso Robles and Democrat Buffy Wikes Of Oakland, have authored a California bipartisan bill in state...
How Do You Talk to a Teen About Cannabis? – What’s Inside those Gummy bears and Chocolate chip Cookies?
Funny how when I was growing up, marijuana was marijuana, yet now we have a new word for an old substance, cannabis. The sad truth is teens are getting high on candies and cookies. Every day there is a new article written that indicates that schools are miffed by the...
The Crisis Of Wealth
We live in a time of unprecedented, voluptuous wealth. It can be measured in all sorts of ways, such as the high school senior driving a new Mercedes Benz or a five-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue. Two of the most successful TV shows running today, Yellowstone and...
Ornamental Children (written with the help of Maks Ezrin)
When Sam called last week, she was scared and frightened. Her beautiful 24-year-old daughter, Harriet, was raging once again, letting her know, in no uncertain terms, that she was a no good, very bad mother. Harriet said she was scared to leave her home, a beautifully...
Treatment Without Walls
Over the past year, I have been blessed to be able to work with many different behavioral health centers: Seasons Malibu, Milestones Malibu, Pointe Malibu, JFlowers Health Institute, A Mission for Michael, Cirque Lodge, Sabino Recovery, Futures, Balance, Life Sync,...
How Families Cope After Suicide
When I was 7, my father died by suicide. To say I was traumatized to learn that he hung himself with a tie would be an understatement. My mother, also experiencing this trauma, had no place where she could share her loss and the feelings of guilt and shame and anger...
September Is National Suicide Prevention Month
Funny how we delegate days and months to certain causes. The truth is that every day should be a suicide prevention day. Sadly, death by suicide is among the leading causes of death overall in the United States. There are, on average, 123 suicides each day. It is the...
Additional Resources For Adolescents
Raising Happiness
Christine Carter PhD
Raising Lions
Joe Newman
Bradshaw On the Family
John Bradshaw
The Journey of The Heroic Parent
Brad M. Reedy PHD
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4787.Top_10_Parenting_Books_
http://www.parenting.com/blogs/mom-congress/melissa-taylor/10-best-books-thinking-parents
Straight Talk
Claudia Black
Everything You Need to Know about Chemical Dependence
Vernon E. Johnson
My dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease
Claudia Black
The Brown Bottle
Penny Jones
It Will Never Happen to Me (children/teens)
Claudia Black
Setting Rules And Limits Pamphlet
The Real Life Parenting Skills Program