Why Junior Year's First Month Is a Mental Health Emergency in Disguise Sometime during the September of junior year, a question that has always been hypothetical becomes operational. Not... Read more 21min read
School Start Times Are a Teen Mental Health Crisis Your teen has probably been waking up before 7 AM for most of their school career. Early morning start times are an... Read more 21min read
It’s Not Prom. The Month Teen Drinking Spikes During the School Year Will Surprise You Every parent of a teenager carries a mental risk calendar. Prom. Homecoming. Halloween. New Year’s Eve. The parties... Read more 17min read
Fall Sports & Teen Alcohol Use By the third week of the season, most teenagers on a team already know. They know which upperclassmen drink after... Read more 21min read
High School Never Ends: How School Social Dynamics Became a 24-Hour Problem There used to be a firewall between school and home and it started at 3:15 PM when the bell rang. Read more 21min read
The Cafeteria Is the Most Stressful Room in the Building Parents ask, “how was class?” or “have you done your homework?” and, “are you going to the dance?” But they never ask... Read more 20min read
Why Junior Year Is the One Parents Should Be Worried About They successfully navigated their freshmen year of high school. They avoided the sophomore slump. Now they’re heading... Read more 22min read
The 3 PM Window: After-School Risk Hours for Teenagers There is a lingering assumption among parents of teenagers that the hours most risky are the late ones. There is the... Read more 20min read
Back-to-School Mood Changes: It's Neurological, Not Nerves Clinicians who work with adolescents learn, fairly quickly, that August is an interesting month for observation. Not... Read more 20min read
Teen Anxiety & Alcohol: Why They Go Together It can be easy to miss the connection between teenage drinking and anxiety. It usually doesn’t look like what you’d... Read more 19min read
