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Conflict

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Separation and Divorce

When parents separate or divorce, it shakes the family system. Families often begin a grieving process, experiencing changing emotions like shock, sadness, or anger. Separation itself – and the events leading up to it – can sometimes be traumatic for family members, including both parents and children.

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Teen Friendship Difficulties and Mental Health

Unsurprisingly, adolescent friendships are linked to mental health. Young people with at least one friendship have higher self-worth and less depression. Those with high-quality friendships or more friends are less likely to experience emotional distress or social difficulties. Even a small number of high-quality friendships can also act as a buffer against wider social difficulties like a lack of acceptance from peers.

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Unresolved Family Trauma and Mental Health Disorders

When families experience trauma, it changes the way family members relate to one another and affects the family system as a whole. Sometimes, families are able to resolve their trauma, especially if they already have a strong and supportive family system. In other cases, unresolved trauma causes long-term harm to relationships and interactions between family members. This disrupts young people’s emotional and social learning and can cause them to develop unhelpful or harmful thought patterns and behaviours as they attempt to cope with what they experience and observe.

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Conflict

Family Conflict: Protecting Children from Harm

Avoiding hostility and aggression – and finding healthy ways to resolve conflicts – are the best ways to protect children from harm. But there are also steps you can take to prevent behavioural, psychological, and social issues from developing among young people if hostile family conflicts do occur.

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Why Adult Psychiatry Is Not Always Right for Children

Specialist mental health programs for young people are sensitive to their developmental and social needs. They adapt treatment programs and modalities to each young person’s developmental stage, whether that’s childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood.

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The Impact of Parental Affairs on Children and Teens

Parental affairs are usually considered to be a serious breaking of the commitments of a relationship. They can give rise to a collection of emotions for both partners, including sadness, disappointment, betrayal, guilt, and shame. Parental affairs are linked to tension, conflict, and the breakdown of relationships.

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Jakarta

Many young people in Jakarta experience challenges with their mental health. However, most of those with mental health disorders aren’t receiving treatment. There are many barriers to mental health care, including service availability and busy schedules. But one of the most important is a tendency to not seek help in the first place.

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