ReFraming Parenting, Family, and Troubled Teens

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What Happens When ReFraming is Used?

• Problems, reframed, can become opportunities for growth, success, and stronger relationships.

• Treatment, reframed, can take place within the community of the child, within the home, in the company of friends, family, local schools, religious influence, etc. This should be the "first," not the "last" approach to helping a troubled teen.

• Frustrated Parents, reframing their approach to a child's issues, become the most powerful, important, and caring adult(s) in the child's life.

• The pursuit of solutions, reframed, takes place as close to the problem as possible to ensure long-term success. A child is closest to his problems within the society of family and community. The child's greatest long-term solutions can also be found within these societies. Sending a child to some distant place is "reframed" as an act of desperation, that should be done only to provide physical distance between the child and safety or security issues.

• Therefore, solutions for a troubled teen, when reframed, take place within the child, with the closest natural social influences possible participating in the solution.

Are Solutions in an Industry, Or Within America's Homes?

Looking at the family. If focused effort is placed upon educating and strengthening parents, who in turn exert influence upon their local social networks, then families and communities are strengthened to bring true solutions to their children.

Looking at the Industry. An honest view of the current out-of-home youth treatment industry reveals extreme social inefficiency. It serves only 3 to 5 percent of the troubled youth population, with spotty results. Many children leave treatment with more problems than they had when they entered. Excessive costs keep the less fortunate from even experimenting with possible solutions. Children who are too young or too old have severely limited options for help. Children with special medical issues (Diabetes, Bulemia, etc.) are too high risk for most treatment settings.

Cutting the Fat. Reframed, the out-of-home treatment industry is fat and inefficient. There are some very good treatment providers. But the good treatment providers, speaking candidly, will also acknowledge that the industry as a whole is bloated, and needs an overhaul.

The ReFraming Parenting Program takes it a step further. We believe the overhaul starts with the family and the local community, and that among parents, extended family, local community resources, etc., the greatest answers exist. We, as a people, simply need to step forward to make the solutions happen.