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.