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Prioritizing Mental Health on International Self-Care Day: How Teen Therapy and IOP Can Help 

Clear Behavioral Health

June marks the beginning of Self-Care Month, which ends with Self-Care Day on July 24. This awareness month highlights the importance of self-care and emphasizes that it’s something we can all practice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Research has also shown that self belief plays a crucial role in emotional well-being.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you?

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Brain Disorders or Problems with Living? How Research on “Mental Illness” Went Awry

Mad in America

Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. Other somatic interventions for mental illness, such as lobotomy and insulin coma, were as discredited as bloodletting. A bad metaphor. An excuse.

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Reflect Like An Olympian: Manage Stress, Gain Perspective and Find Balance! 

Child Mind Intitute

If you follow Child Mind Institute news, you already know that in January we launched a free, intuitive mental health journaling app. The goal is to help teens process emotions and build self-awareness through mood tracking, guided prompts, and private self-expression.