June 21, 2017

By Gene Beresin, M.D. and Steven Schlozman, M.D.

When I was a kid, there weren’t what you’d call choices when it came to summer. I could go to camp, or, well…I could go to camp.

‘But don’t worry,’ my mom told me, ‘when you get older, that’s when you’ll have choices.’

Right.

June 12, 2017

By Ellen Braaten, Ph.D.

When parents of school-aged kids think about summer vacations, what would you expect their favorite part to be?  Taking the kids to the beach?  Sleeping in late?  Foregoing the school year’s rigid schedule?  Nope.

June 8, 2017

By Ellen Braaten, Ph.D., Peter Braaten, Gene Beresin, M.D. and Steven Schlozman, M.D.

This is the second blog post in a two-part series on adolescents’ transition to the “real world.”

To view the first blog post, click here. 

Intro music written and performed by Dr. Gene Beresin.
Outro music arranged and performed by Dr. Gene Beresin.

I love being a mom.

June 7, 2017

By Gene Beresin, M.D., Steven Schlozman, M.D. and Ellen Braaten, Ph.D.

This is the first blog post in a two-part series on adolescents’ transition to the “real world.”

To view the second blog post, click here. 

Intro music written and performed by Dr. Gene Beresin.
Outro music arranged and performed by Dr. Gene Beresin.

Well, the end of high school senior year is upon us.

June 5, 2017

By Steven Schlozman, M.D.

Sometimes really horrible things happen. Automobiles crash. Assaults, robberies, fires, natural disasters, terrorism—these are all products of our world that we hope to never have to face. Still, no one is immune; adults, children and adolescents endure horrors every day.

May 31, 2017

By Ellen Braaten, Ph.D.

Brett’s mom was surprised when his second grade teacher recommended that he attend the public school’s summer school program.

May 18, 2017

This video offers two compelling chapters: first, a fictional sequence of a day in the life of a clean-cut teen addict, and second, a frank dialog with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and a young man in recovery.

May 4, 2017

By Ellen Braaten, Ph.D. and Nathan Cook, Ph.D.

The internet provides a seemingly endless amount of information about almost any topic you could imagine. Parents are as likely to turn to the internet as they are to well-worn “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” books.

May 2, 2017

A look at why and how the stigma of mental illness persists in the African American community—and what some are doing to address it.

May 1, 2017

By Steven Schlozman, M.D.

We are now in what I believe is the 17th annual “Screen-Free Week” in the United States and abroad. This is a much publicized and highly laudable movement that asks us to take a week—an entire week—to get our children to unplug whatever they happen to own with a screen.