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WHY TO INTERVENE
The adolescent years can be very difficult and trying for both adolescent girls and parents alike. Often these years are filled with uncertainty and a lack of direction, leaving the Troubled Teen Girl at risk, in a state of confusion and the parents struggling in a sea of hopelessness. Living each day becomes a trial, and family life becomes an endless crisis. Both the teen girl and the parents begin to wonder if life will ever get better.
If your Adolescent girl is struggling with any of the following, you may need intervention:
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If your Troubled Teen Girl is experiencing any of the above diagnosis or problems, you are in need of an intervention program. By reading this you have already begun the first step in getting your teen help...
A Whole Solution for the Whole Community
Hope For Teens is a faith-based, non-profit organization for families in crisis. We offer help through an established network of ministries. Oftentimes those we help are defiant, unmotivated, truant, and involved in immoral lifestyles, including promiscuity, drug abuse, alcohol, internet addictions, hooked on video games, and outright rebellion.
The combined services and collaborative efforts of our network addresses the needs of the whole person by providing a whole solution through spiritual nurturing, character development, recreational activities, vocational training, addiction recovery, academic achievement, emotional health and social enrichment. Read more on our ebook or view the video below.
Even the most troubled kids can learn a game and how to play it. When that short game (the program) ends, however, they are likely to quickly revert to old habits and ways of thinking. That's because the simple behavior modification approach often fails to address the significant root causes of inappropriate behavior. There's no focus on the inner-person, attention is only temporarily directed toward how that person is acting.
Struggling teens can get some benefit from behavior modification-based programs. However, the only way to truly encourage meaningful change is to break away from simplistic outlooks and to pay attention to deeper core issues.
It would be nice if there was a simple solution to "fixing" troubled teenagers. Unfortunately, the most simple perspectives don't accomplish their goals. It's important to address both superficial behaviors and the human soul on a spiritual level.
We have a tendency to look for the simplest solutions when we confront problems. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the area of providing support and assistance to troubled teenagers. We frequently reach out to struggling teens with behavior modification programs, hoping for a quick behavioral fix. Unfortunately, that may not be the best solution.
Healthy Teen Living
Behavior modifications operate from an attractively simple premise. If you construct a set of rules that allows for punishments and/or rewards based on the behavior of the participant, that person will adjust to maximize his or her level of comfort. In other words, the participant will change his or her behavior in order to get more rewards and to avoid uncomfortable punishment.
This is the root thinking behind many troubled teen bootcamps and other programs targeting at-risk youth. The thought process at the base of these behavior modification programs hopes that simple retraining based on rewards and punishment will result in a transformative experience that will put the child on the "right track".
These methods do inspire changes. However, they're usually less than genuine and they tend to lack staying power. The artificial punishment/reward construct encourages the teenager to learn the rules of the game and to act accordingly. He or she may alter outward behavior to comply with program expectations. Underneath those superficial alterations, however, nothing significant is happening.
Interested in reaching your struggling teen or child and how to get her moving in the right direction? Just begin browsing the links below to learn more about a heart-transformation treatment approach that is Christ-centered. Discover how thousands of other parents are making real, lasting, and remarkably positive life changes for their children.
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