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Rx & Medical Parents and individuals searching for drug and medically articles will discover ScottCounseling.com to be their one stop source of helpful information.

17 Dec Posted by in Mental Health, Rx & Medical, Teens | Comments

Eating Disorders: What Parents Need To Know

Eating Disorders When people hear of someone with an eating disorder they often assume the person has a food or diet problem. Eating disorders are not a sign that a person has a problem with their diet or the food that they eat, but a sign that there’s underlying problem(s) in their life that that...

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17 Dec Posted by in Rx & Medical, Teens | Comments

Anorexia: What Parents Need To Know

What is Anorexia? Anorexia (full name- anorexia nervosa) is an eating disorder characterized by a significant weight loss caused by excessive dieting. The cause of this illness in women, and now, an increasing number of men, is motivated by the strong desire to be thin and/or the fear of becoming obese. Anorexics see themselves as...

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20 Nov Posted by in Rx & Medical | Comments

When Mom Gets Breast Cancer: What To Tell Children

The experience of having a doctor tell you or a loved one that they have breast cancer can certainly be traumatic.  But, what about telling the children.  ScottCounseling provides answers from the doctors and hospital social worker. QUESTION: How much should children know about the breast cancer that mom has? Joan Hermann, L.S.W. “I think that...

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Expert Parenting Books: Online Parenting Books

Finding the right parenting books to meet your needs has been simplified.  ScottCounseling offers two new parenting books that contain hundreds of parenting ideas, tips, stategies and techniques to help you become a parenting expert.  No book store will ofer you parenting information and advice at this price!     NEW! Copyright 2008 101 Top Child Development &...

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Alcohol and Drug Use In Teens: The Minnesota Student Survey

    The Minnesota Student Survey is the largest longitudinal study of adolescent behavior in the United States.  This survey is given to the majority of 6th (81%), 9th (76%) and 12th (58%) grade students in the public school system across the State of Minnesota.  Of the 338 public school districts in Minnesota, 91% participated in the 2007 survey. ...

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I Need Help!

Asking for help from a trained professional, whether it be a dentist, car mechanic, florist, doctor or other service oriented individual should be as natural as asking someone where the restrooms are in a public building.  Do you need help?  Counselors are available and trained to serve you! Ask a Counselor   ScottCounseling.com was created...

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Drugs and Alcohol: Parents Take Action

You may be a parent that has spoken to your child about avoiding the use of drugs and alcohol. This is an important first step to keeping your child safe and chemical free. Below are some other steps that you can take to ensure that your child is not drinking, smoking or abusing drugs. Establish...

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Perinatal and Postpartum Depression: What Women Can Do

Depression during pregnancy or after the birth of a child affects less than 1% of the population. If this population includes you, this affliction may seem hopeless and life changing. Like other forms of depression, there is a cure. Women suffering from depression before (perinatal) after a pregnancy (postpartum), should seek help from their medical...

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21 Apr Posted by in Rx & Medical | Comments

Sick Child & Medicine: Giving Your Child The Right Medicine

Got a Si Medicine are suppose to make our children feel better.  More and more news articles share horrifying stories of medicine mishaps and overdoses.  All drugs can be harmful if used inappropriately. When it comes to giving medicine to your child, here are 10 factors for parents to consider: 1. Read and follow the label directions every...

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19 Mar Posted by in Rx & Medical, Teens | 1 comment

Center For Disease Control Study Finds 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease

Nation news reports on on four major news networks and the popular cable news networks all shared the following information regarding teenage girls in the United States: 1 in 4 Teenage Girls has a Sexually Transmitted Disease Two days later, the story was gone!  In the meantime, 3.2 million female teenage girls in the U.S....

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