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Troubled Teens

Really Special Education: State Investigation Confirms "Lap Dance Therapy" Allegations

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Supreme Court, Taxes, Expensive Lap Dances, Education, Add, Disabilities, Teens, Addiction, Treatment, Mount Bachelor Academy, Drugs, Troubled Teens, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

A series of investigations could spell the beginning of the end for the billion dollar, taxpayer funded troubled teen industry.

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Depression Alert: Reading This Post May Just Help Save a Life

Chloe Spencer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Depression, Cutting, Teens, Suicide, Parenting, Teenagers, Troubled Teens, Living News
Chloe Spencer

Be aware of all your friends and family, because they may be suffering from severe depression, and it's just bottled up inside them and invisible to others.

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Parenting: Don't Over-Worry About Your Teen

Psychology Today | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolescence, Mental Health, Relationships, Teens, Parenting, Mothers, Troubled Teens, Teenagers, Worry, Fathers, Risk-Taking, Living News

The harsh reality is that their teenager can't grow up without taking risks, can't take risks without denying danger, and can't deny danger without cr...

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Do Lap Dances and Humiliation Treat ADHD -- and Should Public Schools Pay?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Supreme Court, Education, Child Abuse, Teens, Drugs, Mount Bachelor Academy, Schools, Troubled Teens, Idea, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

The stories of psychological abuse coming out of Mount Bachelor Academy are every bit as bad as I have heard from teens and parents at chains of programs that have far worse reputations.

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Rescue the Children Along with the Bankers

Walter Dean Myers | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Bailout, Broken Homes, Children, Bail Out Children, Teenagers, Troubled Teens, Politics News
Walter Dean Myers

We have even stronger numbers than we did with the sub-prime mess to know that far too many of our children are headed into the world totally unprepared to become productive citizens.

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HIV Scare at St. Louis High School

Abigail Jones | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Jamie Lynn Spears, Teen Sex Education, Cdc, St. Louis, Teenage Sex, Hiv, Sex Education, Teenagers, HIV/AIDS, Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Health Scares, Normandy High School, Kids, Sex...With Mom and Dad, Health, Teens, Abstinence Education, High School, Gossip Girl, Bristol Palin, Troubled Teens, Living News
Abigail Jones

Normandy High School officials should have come out strongly, advocating openness, pushing sex education, and acknowledging the problems and pressures of teenage life.

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Everything I Own Fits In a Hefty Trash Bag

Michelle Renee | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Change to Win, Self Esteem, Women's Self Esteem, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Seventeen Magazine, Spirituality, Teenagers, Troubled Teens, Trash Bag, Living News
Michelle Renee

As a 17 year-old abused homeless runaway, getting what I needed to survive sometimes meant hurting those that I loved and those that loved me most.

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WATCH: Live From Location Of McCain's Walter Reed Photo Snafu

Lee Stranahan | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Willow Palin, John McCain, Rnc, Repubilcan Party, Photo, Incompetence, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Walter Reed Middle School, Troubled Teens, Teenagers, Walter Reed, Snafu, Goofy, Media News
Lee Stranahan

This controversial report from a former student at Walter Reed Middle School rips the lid off of the scandal that left America asking "Seriously, WTF ...

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