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Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Attention-Seeking Behavior: Why Your Teen Wants Attention 

By Embark Behavioral Health
Attention-seeking teen seeks validation and reassurance through social media.

Find out what attention-seeking behavior is, including its symptoms and psychological causes, as well as how you can help stop it in teens.

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Hyperfixation: What Parents of Teens Need To Know 

By Embark Behavioral Health
Teen struggling with hyperfixation is unable to break focus on social media to talk to parent.

Find out what hyperfixation is, the symptoms, how ADHD, anxiety, OCD, autism, and depression are related, and how you can help your teen.

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Are Celebrities Good Role Models for Teens?

By Embark Behavioral Health
Teen who believes celebrities are good role models waits in line for a concert.

Throughout adolescence, your teenage son or daughter will go through the process of developing their identity, and they may feel they found that in a celebrity, influencer, movie star, rapper,…

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How Teens Can Gain Confidence in Their Appearance

By Embark Behavioral Health
How Teens Can Gain Confidence in Their Appearance

Last Updated: February 2021 Teenagers today are facing unprecedented social pressures. Social media features a highlight reel of other people’s lives, while photo filters create fake images that no teen…

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When Social Media Attacks

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Look around you. At any given time, someone within 30 feet of you is likely viewing some type of social media. You connect with it, you learn from it, and…

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Being Social Media Vigilant

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After treatment for mental health and/or substance use, you learned a lot about self-care, therapy skills to help you manage your stress and emotions, and about being vigilant in those…

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The Power of Social Media

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This is not another article from an adult telling adolescents that social media is bad. In fact, it’s the opposite. Social media can be a powerful tool for change. We…

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How Much Screen Time is Too Much?

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Screen time is a constant in the lives of many and because of the amount of time we devote to scrolling, there is a new focus on how much screen…

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Feel The Pressure

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Sometimes it just feels like everyone’s expectations of you are too much. The pressures of school and work are increasing as your time is decreasing. More is expected of you…

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Does Social Media Keep Me from Being Connected to Others?

By Embark Behavioral Health
Teen boy uses social media and is less connected with others.

Social media is great for being informed about other people that we care enough to follow. How else would we know what Aunt Betty had for breakfast? How would we…

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