Doing therapy with teens has always been a challenge--compounding the difficulty is the fact that today’s kids are bombarded by an all-pervasive pop culture...

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Helping anxious kids and their parents

By Lynn Lyons

In this age of helicopter parents and protective child professionals, we can often recreate a potent anxiety- reinforcing system around children that not only rewards anxiety, but encourages it to grow and take over even more of the child’s life.

Mistakes Therapists Should Avoid

By Janet Sasson Edgette

Most teens loathe the very idea of therapy. Yet, with confused and troubled adolescents needing our help more than ever, the gap between our grad-school training and what works in real-life practice continues to widen.