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Self Harm Treatment

Help for Teens that Self-Harm

Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch is a long-term residential therapy program for teen boys ages 14-17 struggling with substance abuse, mental health, and behavioral problems like self-harm and suicide.

For more than 50 years we’ve helped teens overcome life-controlling issues using a Christ-centered approach that includes clinical therapy, outdoor adventure, academic success, and self-growth.

Help for Teens that Self-Harm

What is Self-Harm & Why Do Teens Do It?

Self-harm, also known as self-injury, is the act of deliberately causing harm to oneself, often as a way to cope with emotional pain, intense anger, frustration, or other distressing feelings. It’s not necessarily a suicide attempt, nor does it mean that someone wants to die. Rather, self-harm is a negative coping mechanism to deal with overwhelming or intense emotions. 

Self-harm looks like:

      Cutting

      Burning

      Hitting Oneself

      Picking at Wounds

      Head Banging

      Hair Pulling

      Excessive Scratching

      Deliberate Bruising

At Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch, we work with teens that self-harm by working to address the root cause of these behaviors through Christian clinical therapy facilitated by licensed therapists.

 

 

Understanding Self-Harming Behavior in Teens

Self-harm is a sign of underlying emotional distress. While it might bring temporary relief from emotional discomfort, it doesn’t address the root causes of the distress. People who engage in self-harm often struggle with emotions and situations they find hard to express or resolve, and they may not have healthier coping mechanisms in place.

Teens may resort to self-harm in order to feel a sense of control, relieve intense emotions, or sometimes just to ‘feel something’ after living in a state of emotional numbness. Self-harm can be a stress or trauma response and requires psychotherapy for treatment.

 

When is Residential Treatment Appropriate for Self-Harm?

Self-harm is a symptom of a deeper mental health problem. If you see signs of self-harm in your teen, therapy is the first step toward healing. For most teens, working with a licensed therapist in an outpatient setting will be enough to achieve a healthier balance.

But what happens when traditional outpatient therapy fails?

What happens when your son’s therapist says that his condition might require more intensive treatment, or that they are no longer equipped to treat him? Where do you turn when your needs something more than a 30-minute weekly therapy session?

Long-term residential treatment can provide a safe, structured space for intensive mental health intervention. In a residential program, teens benefit from around-the-clock monitoring, intensive therapeutic activities, structured schedules, and supplemental skill-building activities all designed to facilitate healing and promote sustainable recovery. 

Families choose residential mental health treatment for teens that self-harm when their diagnoses are severely impacting daily life. If your son is withdrawing from social activities, having difficulty maintaining friendships, getting bad grades in school, or causing problems at home that feel out of control, a long-term residential mental health treatment facility can help the teen and the family heal.

 
Why Choose Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch?

Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch is a dual-diagnosis mental health treatment facility with a Christ-centered, trauma-based approach. We help boys that self-harm due to problems regulating emotions, managing stress, or as the result of a childhood trauma.

Our program provides stabilization, skill-building, and transition support so that your son can identify why he is self-harming, address that issue in a safe, therapeutic environment, and learn healthy coping mechanisms to thrive through sustainable recovery in the real world.

Help for Teens that Self-Harm
Effective, Sustainable Recovery is in Reach for Teens that Self-Harm

Christ-centered, clinically-minded mental-health residential treatment for teen boys.

Contact our admissions team to learn more about Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch and take the first step toward a healthier, happier future today.

 

 

Should you need help finding group homes for troubled teens, therapeutic boarding schools, or schools for girls, please let us know. Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch is a Christian therapeutic boarding school and boys home. Boys come to our therapeutic school and home in Northwest Arkansas from across the United States. We help at-risk boys who struggle with behavioral issues. Therapeutic boarding schools and boys homes like Teen Challenge offer behavioral therapy and a rehab for troubled teen boys with teen counseling for boys. The Christian boarding school for troubled boys offers a comprehensive, faith-based program designed to help boys overcome personal and behavioral challenges.  The curriculum combines rigorous academic instruction with Christian teachings, fostering both intellectual growth and moral development. Students engage in daily chapel services, Bible study, and prayer, which help them build a strong spiritual foundation and develop a personal relationship with God. Therapeutic support is a key component of the school, addressing the underlying issues contributing to the students’ difficulties. Counselors and therapists work with the boys individually and in group settings to provide emotional support, coping strategies, and behavior modification techniques. By providing a well-rounded experience, this Christian boarding school aims to equip troubled boys with the tools they need to succeed in life and become productive, compassionate members of society. Through a combination of faith, education, and therapy, our Christian boarding school strives to transform the lives of troubled boys and set them on a positive, fulfilling trajectory.

Self Harm Treatment

Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch works with teens that self-harm by addressing these behaviors through licensed Christian clinical therapy.

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