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How Attachment Disorders Make the Holiday Season Rough
When your teenager is struggling with attachment disorders, it can make every week a real challenge. When the winter holidays come around, teens with attachment disorders can actually become more troubled and their symptoms more pronounced. Here are some ideas on how...
Fighting Depression: Turning Your Teens Focus Outward
When your teenager is struggling with depression, it can seem like there is nothing you can do to penetrate that mental state. Teens with depression really need their parents to help them turn their focus outward rather than let them dwell on all their problems....
Parents Find Comfort Sending Their Teen to Residential Schools For Troubled Boys
The teenage years pose difficulties for even the most stable child, but when a young man has extra challenges in addition to the pressures of everyday life, navigating through the conflicts alone may be close to impossible. Often counseling and traditional treatment...
Finding Good Influences for Your Troubled Teens
The thought of struggling teens and peer pressure seems to go hand-in-hand. For parents, memories flash through their minds of their own experiences of dabbling with cigarettes, taking their first drink or possibly experimenting with drugs. While parents do everything...
Help Your Troubled Teens Understand the Risk of Marijuana
Troubled teens might believe they can safely use marijuana as they often believe that use of the drug comes with little if any risk. However, the use of the drug carries numerous dangers that can permanently impact a teen. The Effect on the Brain The brain contains...
Save Your Teen By Making Drugs Less Accessible
The availability of drugs means that teens can easily access them, resulting in possible long-term damage and untold devastation to their loved ones. Statistics from a study at Columbia University confirm the prevalence of adolescent substance use. For example, about...
Schools for Troubled Teens Offer a Second Chance For High-School Dropouts
Plenty of teens struggle in a traditional high school setting. It can be due to a number of thing: emotional, physical, and mental disabilities. The struggle isn't always visible at first but can quickly present its self as acts of defiance or participating in risky...
Activities that Help Your Teen at a Boys’ Ranch
Perhaps you're considering sending your son to a boys ranch, or maybe you've already decided. You might wonder what he will be doing while he's there. Nearly all of the activities are planned so that your son can maximize his time spent on the ranch. Read on for more...
What Happens At A Therapy Focused Boarding School In Northern Utah
Sending your child to a therapeutic boarding school can be a nerve wracking experience. You essentially have to hand your troubled child over to people you barely know. In this experience there is so much unknown all you can do is trust the therapeutic treatments the...
Letting Your Son Dry Out At A Therapeutic Boarding School In The Utah Desert
When you are considering placing your son in a therapeutic boarding school, you want to make sure the school is of the highest quality. Therapeutic boarding schools in Utah have a demonstrated tradition of excellence. One of the best things Utah therapeutic boarding...
What Can Your Troubled Teen Learn at a Boys Ranch?
You have tried every option that you can think of to help your struggling son, including counseling, threats, promises of rewards, restrictions and more. So far, nothing has worked, and you aren’t sure which direction to turn next. Consider a to help your adolescent...
Utah Offers Great Treatment Centers for Troubled Youth
Young people today face an enormous amount of peer pressure and are barraged with negative influences from the media. Some children have the added difficulty of suffering a traumatic life experience, such as divorce, physical or sexual assault, the loss of a loved...
A Therapeutic Approach to Helping Troubled Boys in Utah
Many parents search for hope for a brighter future for their troubled sons. When a child faces overwhelming problems, such as substance abuse, attention disorders, anger problems, depression and addictive behaviors, the entire family suffers. If traditional counseling...
Boarding Schools in Utah Modify Behaviors of Drug-Abusing Teens
Alcohol, the substance most commonly abused by teens, presents a serious health risk. According the Office of Adolescent Health, nearly 40 percent of all high school seniors admitted some alcohol consumption while almost 20 percent confessed to daily binge drinking...
Why Southern Utah Has Great Therapeutic Boarding Schools For Boys
Therapeutic boarding school is an educational school for struggling middle- and high-schoolers. In addition to academics, the school offers behavioral and mental health counseling in order to address the serious issues that are at the root of their struggles. These...