August 22nd, 2007 by Ann Walker
Oppositional Defiant Disorder can be so overwhelming that parents have no choice but to opt to send their child to a specialty school or schools for troubled teens that specializes with OOD teens. Imagine struggling with a child’s tantrums from toddler on through adolescence.
“At the age of of two-and-a-half, Daniel was more boisterous than a […]
August 22nd, 2007 by Ann Walker
Teen crisis intervention is very often conducted via community supported programs, school interventions and other efforts. Then sometimes, an intervention occurs one on one. Sometimes it is a story that turns teens at risk away from the temptation of drugs. Especially in a time when media and the culture suggest that getting high has no […]
August 22nd, 2007 by Ann Walker
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder presents numerous quandaries for parents raising troubled teenagers. So much of the treatment is based on the specific needs of the teens. There are cases where minimal medication is required and then there are those teens whose ADHD is present with other factors that make it harder to treat. For instance, […]
August 21st, 2007 by Ann Walker
Teen age drug abuse claims yet another life. Randomly, almost casually, troubled teenagers everyday are dying from drugs. Everyday there are countless articles describing yet another overdose, murder or rape - all attributable to drugs and drug addicts. It is amazing to consider that today’s teens never lived in a world where drug deaths […]
August 21st, 2007 by Ann Walker
Accredited and professionally staffed schools for troubled teens will have curriculum and behavioral programs that address a variety of teen problems. Two of the more important lessons driven home to these teenagers are accountability and consequences. Teens at risk who do not learn to own their mistakes and pay for them are destined to continue […]
August 21st, 2007 by Ann Walker
Teen crisis intervention always seems to be the result of a grass roots effort by parents who simply can’t take it anymore. And though the internet is a great concern for most parents, it has also been an excellent way for parents of troubled teenagers to organize and communicate.That is how Parent Team was […]
August 20th, 2007 by Ann Walker
Teens at risk for getting lost inside the juvenile justice system are the focus of a new book by Jessica R. Kendall. In this case, teens at risk are identified as those who are starting a pattern of truancy or other misdeeds. They have not progressed so far into crime or addiction that it would […]
August 20th, 2007 by Ann Walker
The juvenile offender in Cicero will be making their acquaintance with the type of discipline that resembles what is meted out in boot camps.
Next time a Cicero youth is caught vandalizing property, carrying illegal drugs or tagging a home with graffiti, police may tell the child to drop and give them 20.
The town approved an […]
August 20th, 2007 by Ann Walker
It appears that teen crisis intervention has taken a back seat to pop criminal psychology in Great Britain. After all, why in the world would you want to punish a parent for smoking pot in front of their troubled teenagers? Family togetherness and all, right?
That is par for the course today, where social engineering judges […]
August 17th, 2007 by Ann Walker
Teen age drug abuse tends to be subject to fashion. Something so serious should not have trends, but the truth is, if young Hollywood is doing coke, then so will troubled teenagers in America. Though not as prevalent as a decade ago, coke is seen as a status drug and continues to inflict a great […]
