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.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Even the term is a mouthful.

We often shorten the diagnosis to its initials—PTSD—but even that linguistic short-cut doesn’t take away from the fact that this is a deceptively complicated syndrome.

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 18, 2017

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

Here’s the kind of call we get all too frequently:

Doctor, my son said he just doesn’t care about living anymore. He’s been really upset for a while, and when his girlfriend broke things off, he just shut down.

Needless to say, situations like this are terribly frightening for parents.

May 15, 2017

By Courtney Chelo and John F. Kelly, Ph.D.

This is the first blog post in a series as part of The Clay Center’s involvement in the Addiction Free Futures Project from the Children’s Mental Health Campaign, the aim of which is to expand youth and young adult access to substance use prevention and early intervention tools like SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referra

May 9, 2017

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

The Clay Center is an educational and informational outlet only, and so we do not provide clinical services or referrals for treatment. However, many of our partners here at MGH do.

May 8, 2017

By Gene Beresin, M.D.

Parents. Is this scenario familiar?

You’re driving the kids home from school. As always, there’s plenty to do, plenty on your mind. Maybe you’re upset because your boss is making some stupid demand that you need to review.

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.