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Back-to-School Support & Teen Mental Health Treatment: Practical Tips for Parents

Clear Behavioral Health

For teens struggling with emotionally based school avoidance, high levels of stress, mental health problems, and depression related to going back to school, a teen intensive outpatient program (IOP) can offer collaborative, structured support that includes peer groups, skills groups, coordination with schools, and family participation.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

As of 2016, we child and adolescent psychiatrists are only about 8,000 in number. And yet, clearly we can’t install an inpatient unit in every high school across America to accommodate the 18% of our 16 million high school students who need help. We simply don’t have the resources.