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Overview of Articles for Problem Youth
Below are short summaries of articles written to help you understand your teenager and how best to help them. You can go to the full article by clicking on the title of each article.
Power of Peers
It is critically important for you to understand the power of teenage peer pressure and how it has influenced and is influencing your troubled teen. This article covers what your teenager's needs are, how your teenager reacts to peer pressure, how to deal with troubled teens, understanding teen conflict, how to liberate youth who are captives to peer pressure, and how to enlist teen peer pressure to the advantage of your teen.
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Rewards of Giving
A general phenomenon that usually goes unrealized is that other youth can help your troubled teenager more than you can. This article is about teens helping teens, the needs of troubled teens, the importance of helping the teen feel accepted, guiding parents in being reasonable in what to expect from troubled youth, and knowing when your teen needs help.
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Greatness vs. Obedience
Do you want your teenager to be more obedient? This is a common expectation that parents have for their children. A major step in seeing your teenager become more obedient is to demand greatness of your troubled teen instead of obedience. This article helps you bring out the potential of your troubled teen. Some of the major points it addresses are expecting maturity from your troubled teen, using moderation in what you expect from your problem youth, and how troubled teens need responsibibity.
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Strength of Reformed Teens
Why will your teen benefit from being in a boarding school with other teenagers? The troubled youth who has successfully overcome adversity and resolved problems often has great potential for understanding the problems of other troubled youth and helping them to master similar difficulties. This article discusses how a boarding school really is the ideal location for your teenager to be influenced positively by peer pressure. It also mentions how we all can help strengthen youth and how successful troubled teens encourage problem youth.
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Teen Trust vs. Invasion
People are choosing White River Academy as the boarding school where their troubled teen receives counseling for many reasons. One of which is that some confrontation groups use strong group pressure to break down a at risk youth’s defenses in order to compel "honesty", while White River Academy uses a more advanced method that is not only more effective than the methods used by other boarding schools. This article is informative as to how our at risk academy empowers youth, how we deal with youth, therapy programs used, and also a comparison table so that you can see what we offer in comparison to other groups.
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Opportunity in Teen Problems
White River Academy sees a problem as a very special opportunity rather than as a mishap. Those who view problems as trouble frequently go to great lengths carefully to arrange the environment to avoid the creation of problems, and when they do occur the goal is to halt the deviant behavior as rapidly as possible. However, trying to stamp out problems is often like trying to squeeze the air out of a tied balloon: either the air shifts to a bulge on the other side of the balloon, or the balloon breaks. Many attempts at suppression only force the problem to reappear in another area or cause an explosion.
This article discusses boarding school benefits over correctional schools, encouraging positive behavior in problem youth, and a table comparing problem solving problems approach vs. controlling problems approach.
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Focus on Current Problems
Dwelling on the past with your troubled teen? Its time to get current on the issues and problems at hand. Our Boarding School for troubled teens focuses on the direct and immediate problems of an individual. This article covers resolving the problems of troubled youth, troubled teens and their history, focusing on the present problems of teenagers, using groups to help teens, and solving the "REAL" problems for teens.
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Mental Health Problems
Many parents have found that children diagnosed with Bi-polar disease, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) also tend to be at risk of becoming, or have already become, troubled youth. The Heath and Wellness staff members at White River Academy's Boarding School for defiant teens have experience in dealing with children diagnosed with these and other medical disorders. This article discusses symptoms of ADD, ADHD, Impulsitivity, Bi-polar disease, depression, and manic states.
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Teen Values vs. Rules
In our boot camp for troubled teens, the troubled youth are not given a complicated road map of explicit rules they must follow. While rules obviously are necessary in any society, still problem youth must be able to make decisions when no clear rules for behavior exist. This article talks about how our boot camp helps teenagers incorporate correct principled behavior into everyday life.
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