Many teen summer camps or seasonal therapeutic schools are available for troubled youths across the Untied States. Some offer scheduled day programs, while others have more stringent forms of residential curriculum and therapy. In general, however, most provide support including psychotherapy, individual counselling, and group sessions in addition to discipline, wellness, and leadership training –…
Group homes are devised for many types of adolescents facing difficult problems. Most importantly, there are those available to assist trouble teens who exhibit extreme or repetitive delinquent behavior, early signs of illegal substance abuse, and other serious adolescent issues. Group homes are unlike therapeutic boarding schools or other troubled teen residential programs. For instance,…
The importance of parents identifying troubled teen behavior can’t be stressed enough. Adolescence is a difficult time for teens. It’s a stage when they start to mature, experience mood swings, express more rebellious attitudes, plus crave independence, and social acceptance among their peers. These are all natural characteristics, but it’s pertinent to be aware of…
There are many red flags that indicate troubled teen behavior. Declining grades, a combative attitude, becoming more isolated, hanging around with “a bad crowd,” and trouble with the law are just a few of them. Recognizing troubled teen behavior is a first positive step in helping your teen. The next one is perhaps confronting them…
It may be difficult for parents to understand that their teen is feeling the impact of stress or the fact that it should even exist at all. However, a 2013 Stress in America Survey concluded that American teens have reported experiences with stress that follows similar patterns to those of adults. What’s more interesting is…
When enough is enough and it’s time for some very tough love, sometimes a troubled teen residential program is the only and final option to resolve your teen’s troubled behavior. Sending your child away is not easy. Nonetheless it is (in most cases) for the best, and it can potentially lead to a more stable…
Defiance, verbal aggression, withdrawal from family, seeking independence, the list of issues during adolescent among teens sometimes seems endless. While challenging to say the least but perfectly natural, when – as a parent – should you begin to worry that there’s a deeper behavioral problem? Most importantly, are there specific signs of troubled teen behavior?…
You recognized a series of troubled teen symptoms, resorted to professional guidance, and enrolled in a residential therapeutic treatment program with much success. Your teen is coming home. Now what? It’s only natural for a parent to be worried about their teen falling back into their previous behaviors or re-establishing relations with their “old crowd”…
Adolescence is a difficult stage for teens. Peer pressure, stress from obtaining academic achievements, social acceptance, not to mention changing hormones all contribute to natural, changing behavior. This is a difficult time for teens, and a time when troubled teen behavior may potentially develop. Yet, is there a difference between the common adolescent mood swings…
Sending your teen to a residential treatment center can be a hardship for any parent, and even for teens themselves. If you look at it from a perspective of “sending your child away” or “my parents don’t want me” you just escalate sensitive emotions. So, by understanding some of the benefits and advantages will help…