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The adolescent developmental stage is filled with many complex areas such as relationships, school, and their identities. Building emotional resilience throughout this time period will prove valuable to successfully navigate life’s transition and challenges.
Resilience is the ability to recoup following adversity such as elevated stress or trauma. Resilience does not mean that stress does not affect you or that you avoid struggles in life. Resilience is feeling confident that you are capable of effectively managing challenges and regulating emotions.
Building emotional resilience is a fundamental tool to instill within your adolescents. It is through the guidance of the adults and caregivers that adolescents can develop emotional maturity.
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As a child psychologist, I’ve seen how the digital age reshapes childhood, offering opportunities and risks. Drawing from Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and decades of research, this guide provides practical, evidence-based strategies to manage screens and social media while prioritizing your child’s mental health.
Parenting a child with ADHD is challenging, but their brain’s plasticity—its ability to rewire—offers hope. As a child psychologist, I share research-backed strategies to leverage neuroplasticity, helping kids with ADHD (5–10% of children) overcome difficulties in attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity.
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Adolescent Psychotherapy
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Genetic Testing
Group Therapy
Medication Management
Play Therapy
Single-Session Therapy
Teletherapy
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Have you found yourself in a cycle of negative thinking that you can’t seem to break? This type of thought pattern, although common, can be destructive to a person’s psyche. Challenging these thoughts and unconstructive patterns is an instrumental component to break this cycle; a technique called reframing your thoughts.
Thinking negatively is harmful for one’s emotional wellness. This pattern can heighten anxiety, decrease confidence, exacerbate depressive symptoms and often lead to a person avoiding their challenges in life because they feel it is too difficult to manage.
Reframing is a method of making edits to your thought patterns to a more helpful and accurate description. This process fosters the individual to view a situation realistically versus through a negative filter.
The act of reframing can help navigate symptoms of emotional distress. It guides a patient to redirect negative thoughts and focus on thoughts that would be more advantageous for their mental wellbeing. Additionally, this process helps build emotional resilience and self-compassion.
Reframing your thoughts is an essential tool to maintain emotional balance. Being able to reframe your thoughts lets one have a more positive perspective, which allows you to navigate life’s challenges with confidence and a sense of authority over your own life.
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As a child psychologist, I’ve seen how the digital age reshapes childhood, offering opportunities and risks. Drawing from Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and decades of research, this guide provides practical, evidence-based strategies to manage screens and social media while prioritizing your child’s mental health.
Parenting a child with ADHD is challenging, but their brain’s plasticity—its ability to rewire—offers hope. As a child psychologist, I share research-backed strategies to leverage neuroplasticity, helping kids with ADHD (5–10% of children) overcome difficulties in attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity.
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Adolescent Psychotherapy
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy & Parent Coaching
Genetic Testing
Group Therapy
Medication Management
Play Therapy
Single-Session Therapy
Teletherapy
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contact@orchardmentalhealth.com
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Just as water is essential for human life, sleep is also vital for our existence. The relationship between sleep and mental health has a close connection with the quality of one’s mental health. When sleep is adversely affected it has a significant impact on mental health and conversely, mental health symptoms can often lead to sleep challenges.
For cognitive functioning to perform at optimal level, adequate sleep is important. The brain’s executive functions require sleep to engage in tasks such as decision making, memory and problem-solving.
Addressing sleep issues is often a crucial component of treating mental health conditions. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is a widely used and effective treatment for sleep disorders, particularly when they are linked to mental health conditions. Medication, lifestyle changes, and mindfulness practices are also important tools in managing the relationship between sleep and mental health.
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As a child psychologist, I’ve seen how the digital age reshapes childhood, offering opportunities and risks. Drawing from Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and decades of research, this guide provides practical, evidence-based strategies to manage screens and social media while prioritizing your child’s mental health.
Parenting a child with ADHD is challenging, but their brain’s plasticity—its ability to rewire—offers hope. As a child psychologist, I share research-backed strategies to leverage neuroplasticity, helping kids with ADHD (5–10% of children) overcome difficulties in attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity.
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Adolescent Psychotherapy
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy & Parent Coaching
Genetic Testing
Group Therapy
Medication Management
Play Therapy
Single-Session Therapy
Teletherapy
Aetna
Carefirst / Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna
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Johns Hopkins Health Plans
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contact@orchardmentalhealth.com
9707 Key West Avenue, Suite #100 Rockville, MD 20850
The world today is digital and connected to every aspect via the internet. Therefore, if you are faced with anxiety, depression and/or struggle adjusting to life’s transitions, technology may be a valuable tool to incorporate into your mental health journey.
Below is a snapshot of some of the mental health apps that have received positive reviews.
Headspace this app is known for its user-friendly design and variety of meditation exercises. Headspace offers guided meditations to reduce stress, improve sleep, and promote emotional grounding. Additionally, this app has sleep content to assist with managing sleep disturbances.
Calm is an app that guides its users to meditation and sleep content. Its soothing interface and wide range of guided meditations, sleep stories, and breathing exercises. This app also has a library of music and soothing sounds geared to create a relaxing atmosphere. This app is helpful for those trying to manage anxiety or improve their overall mental health.
Moodfit is an app designed to help the user track mood states. Features on this app allow the user to set goals, track mood patterns and implement interventions such as cognitive behavior therapy to restructure negative thought patterns. Additionally, this app offers gratitude journaling and breathing techniques.
Sanvello offers guided meditation and mood tracking to assist its users navigate symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. The app utilizes cognitive behavior therapy to help its users through emotional distress. Additionally, this app allows its users to take assessments and connect with community support through message boards. Users can take assessments, set goals, and access community support through message boards.
Happify this app utilizes positive psychology as its foundation. It is designed to improve happiness and reduce stress. Features of this app include activities, games and quizzes to challenge negative thoughts and promote a gratitude mindset.
MyLife this app tailors its features to the user’s mood state at the moment. It begins with a question “How are you feeling?” Depending upon the user’s response it suggests breathing techniques, meditations or an activity. This approach helps users tune in to their emotions and choose mindfulness activities that match how they’re feeling.
Mental health apps can serve as an accessible resource to support one’s overall emotional well-being from the comfort of home. While these apps are not a substitute for professional care in severe cases, they offer supportive tools for reducing stress.
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As a child psychologist, I’ve seen how the digital age reshapes childhood, offering opportunities and risks. Drawing from Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and decades of research, this guide provides practical, evidence-based strategies to manage screens and social media while prioritizing your child’s mental health.
Parenting a child with ADHD is challenging, but their brain’s plasticity—its ability to rewire—offers hope. As a child psychologist, I share research-backed strategies to leverage neuroplasticity, helping kids with ADHD (5–10% of children) overcome difficulties in attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity.
In crisis or need immediate help?
Call 988 or go to your nearest ER.
Adolescent Psychotherapy
Adult Psychotherapy
Assessments & Evaluation
Child Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy & Parent Coaching
Genetic Testing
Group Therapy
Medication Management
Play Therapy
Single-Session Therapy
Teletherapy
Aetna
Carefirst / Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna
Humana / Tricare
Johns Hopkins Health Plans
Medicaid
Medicare
Optum / UnitedHealthcare
*Varies by service
M-F, 9am-5pm Eastern Time
Phone: 240-750-6467
Fax: 240-912-7835
contact@orchardmentalhealth.com
9707 Key West Avenue, Suite #100 Rockville, MD 20850
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