Troubled Teens Resources

A stray puppy found next to it’s dead companion on a rural world has found a new home at an Alabama state run rehabilitation camp for troubled teen girls. And in his rescue there was also a rescue of another kind. The recuse of many young, but hardened, hearts.

What the young girls discovered when they picked up this bedraggled creature was the effectiveness of an animal in healing a human heart, a principle that has been successfully employed in animal assisted therapies that are available in some troubled teen boarding schools.

Animal assisted therapy teaches on a number of levels.
Often troubled teens are very self-absorbed, looking only at their world through the lens of their own needs. Taking care of pet shifts a teen’s attention off of themselves to that of another living creature, a living creature that returns love ten fold, without question. It is an experience some troubled teens have never experienced.

Animal assisted therapy also addresses issues of responsibility and accountability. It helps a teen to focus on the needs of someone else and to realize the satisfaction of living up to what is expected of them responsibly.
They get to learn how it feels to affect another life positively instead of destructively.

When seeking out a troubled teen boarding school for your teenagers, parents should review boarding schools like Tipton Academy for Boys. Animal assistance therapy is just one of the many programs in a comprehensive sweep of behavior modification therapies that Tipton offers to bring a troubled teen back to a productive life.