Navigating Reactive Attachment Disorder in Teens
Our Tailored Approach
If your teen is contending with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), an uncommon yet significant challenge in forming healthy emotional bonds, we provide a specialized and effective treatment plan tailored for adolescents.
RAD often arises when consistent emotional and physical care, crucial for healthy bonding, is lacking during formative years, possibly due to experiences like transient foster care or adoption. There are two distinct types of RAD, one marked by inappropriate affection towards strangers and the other characterized by introversion, withdrawal, emotional aloofness, and inhibition.
How We Address Reactive Attachment Disorder in Teenage Boys
Creating a secure and nurturing environment is paramount for helping teens establish healthy connections, forming the core of our approach. Our comprehensive therapy includes family involvement to foster communication between parents and teens. Equipping parents with specific skills becomes instrumental in steering teens away from potential social and behavioral challenges, ensuring a pathway to healthy relationships.
Transforming Troubled Teens into Young Men of Character
As a pioneering Teen Challenge facility, for over 50 years we have innovated ways to help turn around troubled teens. Operating as a CARF-certified therapeutic boarding school and rehab facility, our mission is to provide troubled teens with a fresh start in life.
A faith-based, integrated intervention model complements our structured and disciplined approach to therapy and education. Biblically rooted methods incorporate concepts and techniques from various psychological approaches within a loving Christian environment. We view academic success as a key factor in your teen’s long-term achievements.
Choosing the right facility for your struggling teen is daunting, and we understand the significance of finding the best possible placement. If your teen’s behavior is out of control, and conventional approaches have proven ineffective, we can offer a lifeline for your boy.
We strive to guide teens toward mental well-being, academic proficiency, emotional stability, social adjustment, physical health, and spiritual vibrancy. Our commitment is to witness even the most challenging and troubled teens transform into young men of character and integrity.
Upon your teen’s return home after a transformative time here, our critical Aftercare program will provide ongoing support, addressing transition challenges, offering encouragement, accountability, and preventing potential relapses.
Teenagers here are challenged physically and mentally, learning the importance of goals and perseverance. Our therapeutic program provides your teen with an opportunity for a new and more productive future, allowing him to reach his full potential and experience the hope and future that God intended for him.
