Residential Treatment for teens
How to Help a Teenager With Body Image Issues
How To Help A Teenager With Body Image Issues Discovery Ranch South is not primarily an eating disorder treatment facility, but many of our students arrive with disordered eating and a history of eating disorders. We will help your child manage their unhealthy body image, address their eating disorder, and choose the right treatment moving…
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Recognizing & Recovering from Enmeshed Family Relationships
Family closeness and togetherness are vitally important. However, there is such a thing as too much togetherness. If two or more people are so close that they cannot tell where they end and the other begins, that can be a problem. Enmeshed family relationships with blurry boundaries between an individual’s self and others can inhibit…
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Empowering Your Teen: The Benefits of Exposure Therapy for Anxiety
When teens struggle with anxiety, can a little exposure therapy help? A student, a store, and the most embarrassing things she could think to ask for… I walked towards my student and said, “Okay, let’s go!” She had no idea where we were going or what we were going to do, but she trusted me.…
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Getting Help for Troubled Youth
It’s not easy for parents to find help for troubled youth, and getting resistant teens to accept support can be even more demanding. When teens arrive at Discovery Ranch South’s residential treatment center, they often lack the motivation or desire to change. They also bring a low opinion of themselves, and resistance to change. Discovery…
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Executive Dysfunction Treatment for Teens
Executive functioning skills help teens with remembering useful information, practicing self-control, and managing their time. Discovery Ranch South is a residential treatment center that helps teen girls with a variety of problems, including providing executive dysfunction treatment. Discovery Ranch South is not a military school. It is a residential care program that helps struggling teens…
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Have You Talked with Your Daughter About Porn?
By Maia Christopherson Society and stereotypes would tell us that porn is only a guy problem. Because of this, parents are careful to talk with their sons about porn but aren’t as keen on talking to their daughters about the subject. This divide is problematic, because despite what many think, porn is an issue…
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