Behavioral Therapy Techniques You Can Try At Home For Your Teen With Reactive Attachment Disorder
For teens with reactive attachment disorder (RAD), expressing emotions is often very difficult. This can make it challenging to build and maintain a relationship with a troubled teen with this disorder. To truly understand teens with this disorder, this article will provide some of the symptoms of this disorder. We will also offer some techniques […]
Teens With Borderline Personality Disorder and Behavioral Therapy Techniques You Can Try At Home
With teens who have borderline personality disorder, threats of self-harm due to fears of abandonment are very common. This article will help you understand borderline personality disorder and ways to help your teen with this disorder by using behavior modification therapy techniques. While the techniques that we cover in this article are very useful, they […]
At Home Behavioral Therapy Techniques You Can Try With Your Depressed Teen
“While everyone else / was living their life in color / depression froze me in place.” -Rupi Kaur, Home Body As Rupi Kaur explains in her poem, depression can feel like a sense of loss and emptiness. This article will help you understand your teen and their experience with depression and covers some of […]
Behavioral Therapy Techniques For Teens With Anxiety You Can Try At Home
“I have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety.” -Rupi Kaur, Home Body As the poet Rupi Kaur describes in her book of poems, anxiety can be terrifying for the person who has it. It’s so disturbing for many individuals who have it that the DSM-5, a psychology manual, mentions, “Generalized anxiety disorder is […]
Behavioral Therapy Techniques You Can Try At Home For Your Teen With ADHD
“He just can’t seem to sit down and do his work.” You think to yourself, “I wonder if there’s something wrong with him?” If you’re the parent of a troubled teen who you suspect has ADHD or a parent with a child with ADHD, then this article is for you! This article will help you […]
7 Ways to Help Your Teen With ADHD
Parenting is filled with challenges that seem to change from year to year. Raising a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can bring with it additional layers of difficulty and frustration. It can be challenging to adapt parenting methods that work well with one child. There are varying degrees in severity and symptoms when […]
Being Behind Pace to Graduate Doesn’t Mean Your Teen Can’t Do It
“When I first entered the Liahona Treatment Center, I felt like my chances of getting into college were limited. Now, I can see that I have a journey to share–one of resilience, perseverance, and hard work.” If you have a troubled teen, especially a previously troubled boy, a therapeutic boarding school like Liahona can help […]
Taking Risks Is More Common Among Depressed Teenage Boys
Sleeping throughout the day, eating less or more, and having little motivation are often associated with depression. But did you know that risk-taking is also associated with troubled teens with depression, especially troubled boys? This article covers the types of risky behaviors associated with depression and how you can help your teen with this mental […]
Being Behind Pace to Graduate Doesn’t Mean Your Teen Can’t Do It
“When I first entered the Liahona Treatment Center, I felt like my chances of getting into college were limited. Now, I can see that I have a journey to share–one of resilience, perseverance, and hard work.” If you have a troubled teen, especially a previously troubled boy, a therapeutic boarding school like Liahona can help […]
Parenting an Angry Teenager
“I hate you! Why can’t you just let me go? I know you let them go last year!” your troubled teen yells from behind the door of their room, which they’ve, of course, locked. If you’re a parent of an angry teenager, especially a troubled boy, this article will help you recognize the roots of […]
