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Family Therapy

Family Business and Mental Health Challenges

In some cases, the stress caused by mental health disorders can cause conflicts and tensions that rebound in the workplace, paralysing decision-making and teamwork. Yet, with resilience, flexibility, and commitment to one another, families can reorganise and restructure to accommodate and support a loved one, both at work and at home.

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Mental Health

Teen Sleep Problems and Mental Health

This blog offers some information about what causes sleeping problems among teenagers and the impact on teen mental health. We also outline ten tips that can help teenagers sleep longer and more deeply.

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Addiction

Teenage Drug Use in the UAE

Despite the prevalence of teen drug use in the UAE, widespread prevention strategies are still lacking. Both adolescents and experts highlight the need for school-based prevention programs and parental support to help young people stay safe and identify and support young people who may be using substances harmfully.

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Addiction

Working with Children Affected by Sex Addiction

In this blog, we offer some information about the impact of compulsive sexual behaviours on children and the family system as a whole. We outline The Wave Clinic’s pioneering family and child intensives that offer unique and valuable support for young people affected by sex addiction.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

DBT Residential Treatment for Teens

Dialectical behavioural therapy is a type of talking therapy originally designed for adults with borderline personality disorder. Since then, it has been adapted for treatment among adolescents and offered for a wide range of mental health concerns, including eating disorders, self-harm, and emotional dysregulation. Usually delivered in outpatient settings, studies have shown that DBT is highly effective in improving young people’s mental health symptoms and quality of life.

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Addiction

Gaming, Pornography and Teen Mental Health

Online gaming and online pornography consumption are both common among young people. And both activities can be harmful, whether they’re engaged in casually or develop into problematic behaviours. In this blog, we explore the consequences of online gaming and pornography use for young people’s mental health, and examine the link between the two.

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Anorexia

Anorexia Nervosa and Alcohol in Teens

This blog offers some information on alcohol use among young people with eating disorders, including anorexia. It also outlines the kind of treatment available for teenagers living with anorexia nervosa and alcohol use disorder.

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Mental Health

Coping With Emotional Distress

It’s normal for adolescents to experience a range of emotions, including distressing feelings. But sometimes young people experience emotions that are so intense that they

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