Gov. Rick Scott signed his final bill of 2011 on Tuesday (July 19,2011), approving the creation of a state-funded boarding school for at-risk youth.

Stone Mountain School, a therapeutic boardng school in North Carolina for boys with ADHD and language-based learning differences welcomes its new academic director, Bill Porter, MAEd.

UK's elite boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow are the prime destination for Chinese millionaires who want to study abroad. Read more: Chinese Millionaires Prefer UK Boarding Schools

Kent's City Council is currently planning to place the city's vulnerable children in a private boarding school. Read more: Boarding School for Vulnerable Children Planned in Kent

Recent studies show that teens who have a more optimistic attitude are less likely to be depressed than their peers. The study, which was published in Pediatrics, also found a slight link between an optimistic attitude and less predilection towards drug abuse and bad behavior.

According to a study conducted by Catriona M. Morrison from the Institute of Psychological Sciences in the University of Leeds, teens who are internet addicts are twice as likely to develop depression. The study which was published in Psychopathology tests a group of 1,100 young people aged 13 to 18 years old who were engaged in pathologic internet use. These young people experienced an adjusted incidence rate ratio for depression of 2.5 (95% CI 1.2 to 4.3).

According to a study conducted by Lidy Pelsser, MD and colleagues from the ADHD Research Center in Eindhoven, Netherlands, a limited diet program helps provide relief from the symptoms of ADHD. The study, published at The Lancet showed that 64% of the children who were part of the study experienced a significant reduction of symptoms when they underwent a selective diet while no improvement were noted for children who did not modify their diets.