Drug abuse is dangerous and could have immediate and long-term consequences on your health as well as other parts of your life. The most common substances that teen abuse these days (after alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana) are over-the-counter and prescription drugs. Get to know these drugs better and find out why these are very bad Read the full article…

Everybody gets angry at some point. Parents get angry, teachers get angry, even religious leaders get angry at certain times in their life. Anger is not an unnatural feeling that you need to keep suppressed at all times. In fact, it’s the kind of thing that is harmful when bottled up. Much like a bottle Read the full article…

Puberty is a time when teens experience a lot of changes happening to them. Some may be emotional in nature, but the most noticable ones are the physical changes. It’s very normal for teens to start gaining weight during their adolescent years as they grow into their continuously-maturing physiques. A maturing body may go through Read the full article…

Although institutions geared for housing juvenile delinquents have existed since at the start of the 20th century, it was only in the 1960s when juvenile detention institutions began placing larger emphasis on programs that provide rehabilitative and reforming care, as well as on schooling and vocational training to the incarcerated youth.

The teenage years of one’s life can be a pretty exciting time. It’s a time of discovery and exercising some form of independence as teens begin to test the waters and exercise their own judgment. It’s also a time when some mistakes can really change the course of one’s life irrevocably. Teenage pregnancy is one Read the full article…

  How do parents choose the right program for their troubled teen? First, parents need to understand that not all programs are the same. For example, despite their popularity among government officials, corrections officials, and the public, there have been published reports since 1998 that teen boot camps and similar military style programs were never Read the full article…

It is said that you will need different strokes in dealing with different kinds of people. The same rings true in the troubled teen industry where programs and policies that offer a more individualized approach in its intervention practices are ultimately the more effective program. If you are a parent searching for the best intervention Read the full article…

Cyber bullying is a real issue that young people face these days. Bullying has gone beyond getting your lunch money taken by the mean kids in the cafeteria to being the subject of a mean internet meme. What exactly does cyberbullying mean? Here are a few examples of cyber bullying: 

Residential treatment centers are a bit similar to therapeutic boarding schools except that they deal with more serious cases compared with what therapeutic schools handle. Residential adolescent treatment centers are live-in health care facilities that provide some form of therapy to rehabilitate teens with problems with substance abuse, behavioral issues, and mental illnesses. Some Residential Read the full article…

Wilderness therapy utilizes many different kinds of therapies to achieve behavior modification for troubled teens. Many wilderness programs brand themselves as “wilderness therapy” because of their rehabilitative, outdoor-based approaches. Some common components of wilderness therapy include the following: