Teen crisis intervention via various animal therapy programs is gaining many adherents and advocates. So many troubled teens are shredded emotionally, unable to feel empathy or feel the kindness and concern extended to them.
Animal therapy programs employing either dogs or horses as means to reconnect the teens with their emotions, and in turn their families, […]
Teens at risk are generally the defiant sort. The ones who buck authority, who don’t want to be told what to do. These are the teens that will swear that they know all about drugs. They know the risks,they certainly know more than you and they should be given the freedom to live their lives […]
Teen crisis intervention starts long before drugs show up. It starts with communication, education, and clear rules and a clear outline of consequences. Parents are gathering up every tool they can to fight potential drug problems and one controversial tool that just made it into the arsenal are home drug testing kits.
However, parents are being […]
Specialty schools are around for good reason. There are special children. Not “special” in the PC sense of the word but special in the sense that these teenagers offer extraordinary talent, sharp and vivid intellect, rare gifts of genius. They are the sterling individuals who do not need to slug it out in the morass […]
Troubled teenagers are an easy mark for marketers and advertisers these days. Apparently the widespread ravages attributable to teen age drug abuse are of little consequence next to the bottom line.
“According to 2005 California Healthy Kids Survey, more teens smoke marijuana than cigarettes in San Diego County.”
No wonder parents didn’t appreciate the latest advertising campaign […]
Teen crisis intervention that directs attention to the increasing menace of teenage suicide and depression has been the mission of many in the field of mental health for years. Unfortunately, many parents fail to recognize the basic signs that can manifest during a teen’s bout with depression, thinking it is just moodiness or typical teen […]
Teens at risk for teen age drug abuse do not always behaving in a manner that indicates that there is a problem. Studies have identified people known as “high functioning” addicts who, for all intents and purposes, betray no evidence of dysfunctional behavior.
“Lizzie was an A student from first grade on. Everything she touched, she […]
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is officially described as “an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that seriously interferes with the youngster’s day to day functioning.”
The following symptoms are listed:
* frequent temper tantrums
* excessive arguing with adults
* active defiance and refusal to comply with adult requests and rules
* deliberate attempts to annoy […]
Teen age drug abuse sometimes seems to come as quite a surprise to many parents. And indeed, the troubled teen is very skilled at keeping it that way. I have talked to former drug users who were amazed that when they came home high that their parents failed to see anything off or odd about […]
Troubled teenagers seem to quickly learn how to conceal their illegal activities from adults. They cover for one another, they help each other obtain drugs and they lie to adults without blinking an eye. And no one is really paying that much attention to the big picture. Perhaps if parents started looking at the big […]