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Adolescent Mental Health Care Is Its Own System The continuum of mental health care for adolescents looks superficially similar to the adult continuum, with outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalisation, residential, and inpatient levels. The actual experience inside each level is dramatically different. Adolescent programs incorporate school components, family work, developmental considerations, and identity-formation issues that adult … Read more

Devon was nineteen, halfway through his second semester at a community college outside Rochester, New York, when his mother first noticed that something had shifted. He stopped sleeping. He papered the windows of his bedroom with aluminum foil because he believed the neighbours were filming him. By March he was no longer attending class, and … Read more

Eleanor was seventy-eight years old, a retired piano teacher from Milwaukee with mild Alzheimer’s disease, when her behavior changed in a way her daughter Patricia could not explain. Over six weeks, Eleanor stopped sleeping, accused her late husband of hiding in the basement, and one Tuesday morning attempted to hit a memory care aide with … Read more