Understanding the Parent’s Role: Ensuring Your Teen Succeeds in Therapeutic School
What Every Parent Should Know While Their Teen Is in Therapeutic Boarding School or RTC Imagine this: You have been dealing with an out of control teenager for months (or longer). Your child was skipping school, disrespecting authority, lying, drinking, smoking, and hanging out with the wrong crowd, among many other unhealthy teenage behaviors. You […]
Time to Consider Something New
Yay for SPRING!!! Snow is melting, flowers are blooming, new leaves are sprouting on the trees, longer days, and warmer weather! A fresh start for everything and everyone. What do you see for your fresh start? A new haircut? New work out? Fresh paint in the bedroom? New career? How about a new way of […]
The Difference Between Teen Residential Treatment Centers and Rehab
Does one work better than the other? The short answer is this: it depends on
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