InsightPros - Helping Troubled Teens
A Local Therapist: Your Therapeutic Advocate
| Are you considering sending your teen to residential treatment? We can help. However, you would be very wise to employ a local therapist to assist with this process. Here's why: |
- In addition to being fully capable of diagnosing the problems of a troubled teen, a good therapist is a fantastic consultant. They can assist you in every step of the process associated with residential treatment. Based upon their skilled recommendations they can even help us find the appropriate program, if a program is necessary.
- The costs associated with residential placement warrant the opinion of an impartial third party. Although we at InsightPros feel very confident in our ability to be impartial, you and your child deserve an outside, unbiased opinion regarding placement.
- Residential Treatment is NOT impartial treatment. Treatment programs are businesses. They exist to help kids, true, but they are also motivated to please their shareholders. A good sign that a program is motivated by your best interest is if they suggest you have a local therapist before, during, and after treatment. The programs promoted by InsightPros do just that. However, many programs in the industry will actually manipulate a child's length of stay for "marketing reasons" even when the child is ready to come home, and even when the treatment program's in-house therapist feels the child is ready. We know. We've seen it. Your most powerful advocate to prevent financial interests from outweighing your child's therapeutic interests is an involved local therapist.
- We at InsightPros want you to find a therapist. Programs that claim to employ the Strong Model of Interaction and Intervention must do so for more than publicity or marketing reasons. Every program that makes such a claim must agree to pay for two months of aftercare therapy with a local therapist (maximum of $500/month for two months). Although we cannot guarantee that programs will accept this responsibility, you can be certain that if any program owners or management have spoken with us, AND they represent themselves as a Strong Model program, they have agreed to this stipulation.
If a local therapist is employed, programs know up front that the child's interest is being monitored, evaluated, and tracked from a strong therapeutic home front. It also encourages the treatment program, its staff, and its therapists to become more involved with you and your teen, both during treatment, and in the critical months of aftercare.
- Sometimes treatment programs make mistakes. When you're paying thousands of dollars, and are pouring your hope into a positive outcome through residential treatment, you deserve to know when mistakes have been made. A therapeutic advocate can assist you with this. Ironically, this is also very beneficial to the treatment program. Nobody is always right. So when mistakes are made, if they're made, your therapist can help you make the most of it, perhaps even turning mistakes into advantages for your child.
InsightPros.Com's Troubled Teens Articles directory will increasingly be filled with information regarding the health, well-being, and treatment of troubled teens and their families. We are very selective on who we will allow to publish on our site. Among our favorites are therapists who have areas of expertise and insight that may be helpful to you. As you search for a therapist, you may wish to get to know them by studying their thoughts and opinions before you contact them.
Some additional sites that can provide you with an instant list of therapists are as follows:
TherapistLocator.Net
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
|
If your teen is struggling with crisis or safety issues, and you feel
residential placement is your best option, get help now.
Call Us Toll-Free at 1-877-833-6567 (operators available 24x7)
Or fill out our contact form and we will contact you immediately.
Our Suggestion:
Teen Help - Parenting Help - For Troubled Teens
Currently the only
intervention system for troubled teens we feel comfortable recommending is through
StrongModel.Com, with which we are aligning all of our processes. This "system" of intervention includes local therapy, limited residential care (as prescribed by you and/or your local therapist), and a process of localized training for parents and their families.
Our mission truly is focused upon the parenting relationship with troubled teens.
For enrollment of a troubled teen in any schools or programs with which we are familiar, call us 24x7 at 877-833-6567, or complete our contact form.
