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The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment

The mission of The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment is to provide psychiatric stabilization, comprehensive evaluation, assessment, treatment, and integrated prescriptive services for adolescents found eligible for treatment. The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment provides comprehensive assessment services, crisis stabilization, early intensive treatment, and integrated, comprehensive prescriptive evaluations that chart the course for troubled teens to get back on track.

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Largest Study of Teens and Religion Finds Most Teens Are Indifferent

The most extensive study of teens and religion found that teens think it's important to be somewhat religious, but not too religious.

Dr. Christian Smith of Notre Dame University began his study in 2000 with phone surveys of 3,370 parents and their teenagers. A second wave of research was completed in 2005, and a third wave is ongoing.

Dr. Smith found that most teens do not understand the basic tenets of their faiths. About one-third are involved regularly in religion; one-third are involved sporadically; and one-third are never involved.

"Religious faith and practice does not mean much to most teens or connect with much of their lives," Dr. Smith reported. Comparing religion to wallpaper, he suggested religion operates only in the background of teens' lives.

Most teens believe that God exists and created the world, but is not involved in your life unless you have a problem. Teens also believe that the central goal of life is to be happy and feel good about yourself.

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