Schools for Troubled & At-Risk Teens
Parents and school officials often find it difficult to deal with many of the ongoing problems, such as an undiagnosed learning disability or underlying psychological issues that troubled and at-risk teens are affected by while on school premises. Some of these problems create anti-social behavior at school, including vandalism, theft, drug abuse, and violence. There are schools which specialize in providing targeted disciplinary and counseling services that help teens, that need bad conduct as well as psychological treatment solutions.
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Juvenile Boot Camps
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Boot Camps are alternative short-term disciplinary alternative reform schools, connected to the juvenile court system. At-risk teens and adolescents are placed there with the goal to rehabilitate their negative behavior and attitudes. Boot camps typically serve as an alternative to jail or other type of long term incarceration. One of the primary rehabilitative methods used in boot camp, is intense military-like training to teach them accountability and disciplined respectful behavior. Exposure to military exercises, intense physical training and lessons on responsibility have helped many troubled teens replace their often destructive behaviors and attitudes with improved positive actions.
Alternative Schools
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One of the challenges a parent, teacher or school official must make is determining when a student needs help, to insure that she can recover from a troubled and at-risk lifestyle. Increasing student association and active engagement with individuals who participate in anti-social behavior, has failing grades, truancy problems and has been expelled, does indicate the student needs professional intervention.
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Boarding Schools
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Residential boarding schools offer the troubled at-risk teen, removal from a chaotic often times, dysfunctional Instead of living and going to school where the student is involved in continued school misbehavior, academic failure, violence and drugs, he is relocated to a school and provided a private, ongoing therapeutic process to assist him. The residential boarding school helps the troubled teen, by providing professional staff intervention and highly individual attention. The teens who may have learning differences, ADHD, depression, or other complicating issues can receive attention that is addressed to their needs.
Community-Based Collaborations
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Community partnership with supportive service organizations and alternative schools and other service organizations can play an important part in helping at-risk students stop their self-destructive tailspin. Collaborations which involve the student, therapeutic professionals , community service providers and the parents can form an important partnership which can lead toward recovery. In a 2002 NCES survey of Public Alternative School Programs by Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, approximately 72 percent of public alternative schools and programs reported collaborating with five or more other community agencies in providing services to at-risk and troubled students.
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References
- Urban Institute: Vulnerable Youth: Identifying Their Need For Alternative Educational Settings:
- Military School Alternatives: Can Military School Help A Troubled Teen:
- Teen Boarding Schools: Educating Troubled Teens:
- Aspen Ranch: Adolescent Residential Treatment Center FAQs:
- Abundant Life Academy: Boot Camps For Troubled Teens:
- Boot Camps For Troubled Teens: Boot Camp For Struggling Teens:
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