The gap between reality and the distorted world that the media sells our kids is growing ever wider. Instead of parents serenely enjoying their kid’s high school days in the neighborhoods that they grew up in, parents feel compelled to get them out of the public school system and into private institutions and boarding […]
Another area requiring teen crisis intervention is found in your medicine cabinet. Teenagers have been going to extreme measures to get high. The newest fad, mentioned in an earlier post goes by the name “Trust”. An amazing moniker for what is basically a game of Russian Roulette.
We reported that teens are having parties, the centerpiece […]
“im not depressed, not the happiest person inside tho but thats not the reason ive been thinkijng about my death.
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me im nothing. no one could ever describe me as anything. ive nearly finished school and im going shit coz i dont care and i dont want to do anything in particular after school like UNI, […]
Here is teen crisis intervention in it’s simplest form. After school extracurricular activities.
“Research has shown that participation in after school activities is associated with higher levels of academic achievement and self-esteem, as well as lower levels of substance use.”
That is so very true. A friend is an athletic trainer who had an opportunity to work […]
“That is an astronomical number. If it were measles deaths, there would be an uproar.”
The above remark was made by a member of a community that has had to bury 70 young people under 25.
“While parents and the community at large bask in denial, teens are overdosing, dying in car crashes caused by drunken drinking […]
Caroline and Dave, parents of a drug addicted teen learned their lesson the hard way. When they first discovered their son’s drug abuse they were entering totally uncharted territories and were guided primarily by a therapist that they engaged without exploring all of the possible therapeutic options available for troubled teens. After completing a […]
What happens when a teenager never breaks free of drugs? They function, they graduate, and all the while they fall in and out of substance abuse. They are functioning addicts. Typically, at some point, an addict will hit bottom and turn their lives around. As hard as it is for a teen to hit bottom, […]
For some teens graduating this spring it has been a very long and very hard road. Sadly enough, many teens dressed in graduation robes this spring are not only graduates but recovering drug addicts. Precious time and energy have been invested in seeing this day come to pass. For parents who have just lived […]
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)has been debated for the last twenty years with many parents still feeling confused when their teen is diagnosed.
What we do know for sure is that teenagers who display the noted traits of ADD are vulnerable to more at-risk behaviors, if for no other reason than that their inability to pay attention […]
They park their gang colours at the door, handing over bandanas from the Crips and Bloods and Gators to teachers every morning to put in a drawer, then getting them back at the end of the day in case they need them for protection going home.
That is the opening paragraph of an encouraging story about […]