About 25 to 50 percent of justice-involved youth (JIY) have a substance use disorder (SUD; Teplin, Abram, McClelland, Dulcan, & Mericle, 2002; Wasserman, McReynolds, Ko, Katz, & Carpenter, 2005; McClelland, Elkington, Teplin, & Abram, 2004), ...
Young adulthood is a unique time of life, filled with new experiences, new beginnings, and fraught with new obstacles and challenges. Young adulthood is a period that is developmentally associated with biological, psychological, social, and ...
Adolescence is a turbulent time in the best of circumstances, riddled with paradoxes and pressures, subconscious drives, and conscious desires. Adolescents are more mature than they are often given credit for, yet at the same ...
A couple of parents came into therapy complaining about their sixteen-year-old son doing poorly in school, drinking, smoking pot (“He’s addicted!”), and hanging with knuckleheads. He sulked, eyes downcast, as they described how poorly he ...
As resources expand to address our nation’s growing substance use disorder (SUD) crisis, public health policymakers are rapidly adopting new approaches to meeting patients “where they are.” Although less controversial than in years past, treatment ...
As I am writing this column at the peak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in early April, I need to prognosticate several months ahead as you will most likely be reading this in July or ...
Being a father is one of most important roles a man can have in his life. It comes with great responsibility and the opportunity to mentor and influence the next generation. Being a father has ...
It seemed to happen overnight: one day in March I was attending a Twelve Step recovery meeting and receiving my twenty-two-year sobriety chip. The next, the whole country screeched to a halt: meetings were cancelled, ...
Imagine you had a child (a young adult) who was secreted away to treatment for COVID-19, and no one would talk about it due to stigma associated with this dreaded, life-threatening disease. This is what ...
Your reputation as a behavioral health care professional can easily be undone by something as simple as a few inappropriate SEO practices on your website. The scary part is that you could be employing some ...
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