Introduction Adolescence is a period marked by rapid growth changes and specific psychosocial challenges (Kumar, 2013). This constant flux of change, accompanied by a limited ability to cope with difficult situations, presents a window of vulnerability in which problem behaviours such as substance abuse and self-harm begin to manifest. A broad spectrum of treatment has been introduced in a bid to intervene and positively alter a trajectory of unhealthy behaviours and poor outcomes in adolescents. This paper seeks to briefly review two counseling approaches – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy...

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. This may sound like a skipping record, but it is not. Tragically, it is just one of the many intense rituals that may plague the mind of someone who has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Perhaps what is worse though is that these people are widely mis...

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