A School for Troubled Youth Could Be Your Answer

There Is Only One Good Time to Complete High School

A school for troubled youth must address the fact that out-of-control teens have discipline and responsibility problems that get in the way of the classroom. Special behavior problems need special solutions. A defiant teen needs teachers and counselors with the professional skills to deal with such abnormal behavior problems.

Underlying Problems Get in the Way of Education

Often, the behavior problems have underlying conditions.

• Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) affects 1 in 10 teenagers, mostly boys.
• ADD and ADHD affect close to that number, mostly boys.
• RAD is less common but frequently occurs in adopted children.
• Whether parents want to believe it or not, drug and alcohol abuse among teenagers are close to epidemic proportions, especially in urban areas.

Public schools do not have the facilities to treat such problems effectively, but therapeutic boarding schools, like Arivaca Boys Ranch, can provide the needed expertise and environment to help get your son back on track.

Why Living at Home and Attending Public School Stops Working

• The home environment has become the comfort zone for bad behavior.
• Acting out in the classroom makes it impossible for teachers and other students to progress, so students who act out are removed to detention or “time out”.
• “Time out” is not productive at altering negative behavior.
• Grades suffer and your son begins to fall through the cracks.
• Although public schools have psychologists on staff, their duties are limited to testing and administering special education requirements. These school counselors simply don’t have time for troubled youth programs.

Other issues that keep parents from being successful at home include:

• Your son has learned to hide things from you.
• He sees no downside to lying.
• His short temper and rapidly changing moods prohibit you from communicating effectively.
• You become powerless to influence him over his circle of bad friends – the peer pressure is much stronger.
• His general lack of interest makes your motivating messages go in one ear and out the other.

What a Boarding School for Troubled Youth Has that Public Schools Can’t Provide

A change in environment is one way to assist troubled teenagers. Deciding to remove a troubled teen from his comfort zone (the home and school) is difficult for parents to do. Many times it is essential. At a school for troubled youth, such as Arivaca Boys Ranch, such acting-out behavior is familiar and the staff has strategies to deal with them.

A boarding school for troubled youth has advantages that home and public schools don’t have:

• Teenagers can’t hide things from professional counselors.
• Your son will experience the consequences of lying.
• Professional counseling develops improved coping skills.
• New strategies deal with his short temper and rapidly changing moods.
• He is out of contact with his circle of bad friends.
• Peer pressure is now on your side.
• We provide techniques that teach him how to become self-motivated.
• Through ranch living and training the horses in equine therapy, he gains a new sense of responsibility.

The Ranch Environment Is Designed to Help Your Son

Boys ranches, like Arivaca Boys Ranch, have an environment that allows us to address even more.

• Ranch living includes many responsibilities, and shirking those responsibilities results in boys not being able to do what they enjoy.

• Equine therapy teaches responsibility and new, healthier strategies for getting along. Teens find that training Arabian horses is a lot like parenting.

• Arivaca Boys Ranch has a fully-accredited high school that provides help for troubled teens. There is plenty of one-on-one tutoring to get their education back on track. The high school environment is designed specifically as a school for troubled youth.

Altogether, Arivaca Boys Ranch is a wonderful way to get your son’s behavior adjusted, teach him a new desire for responsibilities and rediscover the joy of learning new things.

At troubled teen schools like Arivaca Boys Ranch, we have the special skills to deal with attitude and behavior problems of troubled teens. The combination of therapy, hard work, new friendships and success at school can help you get your son back. Call and speak to one of our counselors at our toll-free number, (877) 88-MYSON and find out what Arivaca Boys Ranch can do for your son.

 

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