Teen age drug abuse quickly descends into addiction if the first forays into experimentation are not quickly cut short.Teens at risk for addiction are not always easily identifiable, though those who seek drugs as refuge from depression or anger are more likely to fall into addiction than those teens who are more emotionally stable.
A teen […]
Schools for troubled teens are usually full of those teenagers who have not learned any self-control. They are geared towards instant gratification, have no concern for how their behavior hurts others, are self-absorbed and irresponsible.
Their lack of character and disrespect for the law eventually will land them in jail, get them expelled from school, and […]
It may very well be too late for any type of teenage crisis intervention for those juveniles who have committed crimes that put them in prison for most, if not all, of their lives.
There are those experts who maintain that an adolescent who murders or rapes is operating with a brain that has not reached […]
Teen crisis intervention is usually not the purview of United Way. Long recognized for their work with the poor and homeless, the only contact they generally have with troubled teenagers is in that context. However, so impressed were they with the community’s concerns about drug addiction that they want to tackle that too.
“Brian Sipe, […]
You may have witnessed Oppositional Defiant Disorder behavior before you ever knew it had a name. It is the child whom parents love, but whom they dread dealing with. It is the child who will not bend, will not negotiate, will not be considerate and knows no boundaries.
There are many factors that come into play […]
Teen crisis intervention is hard to implement in a community where parents and citizens tend to be in denial. Wealthier communities may have a particularly hard time understanding that drugs and drug problems are no longer confined to certain demographics. Troubled teenagers come from both sides of the track.
And what is true in America is […]
The fight against teen age drug abuse, specifically against prescription drug abuse, is a bit harder for parents and law enforcement in the state of Florida. Both abusers and dealers have been flooding into the state because it’s one of several states in the country that does not keep a central data base of prescriptions […]
A diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder does not instantly sentence your teen to years of Ritalin or Adderall. Many parents are dismayed to contemplate the possibility of medicating their teenager, concerned about possible drug dependencies later in life as well as possible health ramifications.
Parents who wish to exhaust every “natural”, non-medicated alternative choose […]
Schools for troubled teens with emotional and behavioral problems are usually not paid for by the state, and there will be much debate whether tax payers should be expected to pay for such schools if public schools “fail” to provide problem teens with the environment that they can survive in.
However, apparently a Texas judge […]
Boot camps of a different sort, but none the less valuable, are fitness boot camps. A fitness boot camp directed at teens can benefit in numerous ways, but for the purposes of this post, we’ll focus on the emotional and psychological issues pertaining to body image.
Teen girls are very susceptible to the absurd and unreal […]