Planning for a holiday home visit with a trouble teen is stressful. There is so much anticipation around what the holidays should be, whether you are going to visit your teen at the RTC (residential treatment center) or if they will be home. We had what I will call three “RTC Christmas’s” and I want [...]
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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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Having a troubled teen comes with a lot of baggage. I have found what makes residential treatment successful is the lack of baggage and the enforcement of consistent consequences. A successful therapeutic program is how they deal with the kids day to day and do not hold on too baggage. All the kids in RTC [...]
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