Their really is a honeymoon phase when your kid first comes home from residential treatment. Everything is perfect and everyone is on their best behavior and it is amazing that I did thought it would be different for us. I am always asking when will my teen learn but when will I learn? Am I [...]
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Recently we moved our son to a step down residential treatment program near our home. Before deciding where he would go I toured a few level 12 facilities, one that is very popular for many teens is Family Life Center. From what I have heard many of the teens from Island View in Utah transfer [...]
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No one ever said this was going to be easy or quick or have any guarantees, but we are in for the long haul and entering a new phase of adolescent rehabilitation and residential treatment with our teen son. It was June 2007 that he went to Wilderness, unsure of what it meant or what they [...]
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We are on the second to the last day of a 5 day home visit, and an amazing visit it has been. Sometimes I have to pinch myself I cannot believe the positive changes my son has made and that he has come back to life, earth, this planet. Which he was not part of [...]
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How Long Will My Adolescent Need Mental Health Care at a Residential Treatment Program? When I first learned that my son needed residential treatment, my first question was “What?” I had never heard of residential treatment. Then my next question was “how long?” I figured it would be an in and out process, kind of [...]
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This is a direct affect of our economic times. Sadly our young adults will not be getting the treatments they need. Breaking News – New Horizons For Young Women Closing. Aspen Groups Excel Academy of Texas’ Consolidation of Services
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“Teens Learn Coping Mechanisms and Healthy Ways to Solve Problems” I feel very fortunate to have a guest post by one of the staff that deals directly with teens at Heritage Schools in Provo Utah, a residential treatment center. He explains in great detail how they deal with difficult moments with the teens at Heritage. [...]
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