Many parents were exposed to the concept of wilderness therapy through the series of programs and spin offs that go under the heading of “Brat Camp“.
If you have a teen struggling with drugs or alcohol problems, you have probably accumulated quite a list of possible residential treatment programs available at boarding schools, boot camps, and […]
The runaway teenage boy lay on the indifferent city sidewalk, blood from his wounds seeping through the lettering on his school jacket. The cops said it was a drug deal gone bad, the kid just one of thousands of teenagers who have fled from home completely unprepared for street corner drug deals and armed dealers.
How […]
That hyphenated word, “self-esteem”, seems almost meaningless today. We all know that we need it to function as healthy adults and there are thousands of books on how to build it. It is no mystery that teens struggling with drug abuse issues invariably suffer from low self-esteem.
To esteem someone is to value who they are, […]