Is Intervention Needed?
One of the questions we often hear is, “Does my teen need an intervention option?” In our experience, if you have a struggling teen, we see you have the following three options:
1. You can tighten up family rules and be consistent with your monitoring and follow through. Sometimes this can have a positive effect but typically, at this point, it can also have a negative effect if your teen already isn't receptive or willing to listen to you.
2. If you feel you need a foundation to work with, we recommend a positive short term boarding school or wilderness program to give you that base to build on.
3. Intervention, at some level, is usually necessary in order to see the positive changes in behavior. We strongly recommend finding a secure facility to aggressively work with your teen to allow true healing to take place. Intervention allows the individual to change their environment from a negative one that created the behaviors to a positive one. This has proven to be one of the fastest and most successful paths to normality!
If any of these behaviors describes your teen, you need to highly consider an intervention option ASAP!
Problems at home and school
Lack of discipline, respect for self and others
Defiant toward rules, parents and those in authority
Problems with the opposite sex
Running away
Hanging around the wrong crowd
Getting involved in drugs or gangs
ADD, ODD, Bi Polar, and other behavior related diagnoses
Lying/deceptive
Minor legal issues, however most of our parents are being proactive by enrolling their child into one of these programs before their child becomes entangled in the legal system.
Low self esteem
Hurt and Anger
Divorce, adoption, loss of loved one and other issues revolving around these kinds of issues.
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