teens Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/teens/ Interventions & Treatment Consulting Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://heatherhayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-HH_logo-32x32.png teens Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/teens/ 32 32 Home for the Holidays: Navigating Communication in Family Systems https://heatherhayes.com/home-for-the-holidays-navigating-communication-in-family-systems/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:00:04 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/unraveling-complex-diagnoses-the-intersection-of-attachment-disorder-complex-ptsd-imposter-syndrome-and-narcissistic-personality-disorder-copy/ During the winter holidays, many people get together with their families to enjoy festivities and share warmth and light during the darker winter months. In many cases, these are joyful reunions as parents and siblings who may not have seen each other in a long time get to catch up and share stories and experiences. […]

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]]> Parenting Neurodivergent Teens: Making Space for Differences https://heatherhayes.com/parenting-neurodivergent-teens-making-space-for-differences/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:00:20 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/parenting-neurodivergent-teens-making-space-for-differences-copy/ The term neurodivergent has seen increasing use in popular culture and on social media in recent years. This word is meant as a term that broadly encapsulates a range of mental health conditions where there are natural variations in the brain’s information-processing mechanisms. These include dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) […]

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]]> The Appeal of Cults to Teens https://heatherhayes.com/the-appeal-of-cults-to-teens/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 04:05:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4673 We are witnessing a cultural predilection for joining or glorifying cults, particularly among our young people. While cults are not a new phenomenon, they have now infiltrated the mainstream and have even become fashionable. Today’s youth colloquially use the word cult to describe something cool and niche, such as cult films, cult classics, cult following, […]

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]]> Mastery https://heatherhayes.com/mastery/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:19:40 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=2527 According to Malcolm Gladwell, it takes even the most talented outliers in their given fields 10,000 hours to truly master their craft, “the point is simply that natural ability requires a huge investment of time in order to be made manifest[1].” That is the equivalent to five years of working eight hours per day, five […]

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]]> What Your Teens Are Really Doing at Weekend Parties https://heatherhayes.com/teens-at-weekend-parties/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:43:36 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=980 By: Heather R. Hayes, M.Ed., LPC, CAI, CIP January 31. 2018 Rather than risk getting caught buying alcohol underage or begging an older sibling to score some weed, many teens are simply going to the family medicine cabinet, grabbing an assortment of whatever pills are in there, and heading out the door. Called “pharming” or […]

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]]> Is Your Teen Buying Drugs on Snapchat? https://heatherhayes.com/teen-buying-drugs-on-snapchat/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:34:28 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=977 Social Media’s New Role in Adolescent Drug Use By: Heather R. Hayes, M.Ed., LPC, CAI, CIP January 31, 2018 Everyone is on social media. From 90-year-old grandmas who want to keep tabs on their grandchildren to 9-year-old kids watching their favorite YouTube celebrity, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone not well-versed in the world of […]

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