Welcome to this special issue of Counselor on adolescents and young adults. It hasn’t been very long in western thought that the period of adolescence was a unique time in human development. Prior to 150 ...
Substance use disorder (SUD) counselors are charged with several important responsibilities, all of which ultimately have to do with promoting client welfare and protecting client rights. Many times I have asked myself why professionals become ...
What would the world be like without teenagers? We wouldn’t have high schools. Parents would not have the opportunity to test just how good their parenting skills are. No one would have invented the word ...
In recovery high schools, students recovering from substance use and co-occurring disorders receive academic services and therapeutic supports within a structured environment promoting recovery. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of National Drug ...
The transitional period from adolescence to young adulthood is defined as the stage of life that begins at the conclusion of high school and ends with the acceptance of adult roles such as a career, ...
Teen and young adult drug use is a growing epidemic and the way we have thought about teen drug use and when to refer to treatment certainly needs to be rethought. The view from many ...
Phencyclidine (PCP), that old street drug, has reemerged. What remains the same, however, are the innumerable horror stories involving paranoia, psychosis, and unimaginable acts of violence. Because of that, PCP has garnered sensational media attention ...
About two years ago, Richard Davidson, a psychology professor in affective neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published a bestselling book called The Emotional Life of Your Brain (2012). One of the central elements of ...
“Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: – ...
February 14th of my senior year I was bullied for the last time. That day, I hit my breaking point and felt that suicide was my only option. As I ran through the hallway my ...
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