Eagle Ranch Academy Teaches Motivation with Love versus Fear
By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2010-12-27 13:50:34 | Word Count: 664
Recently, families with teens in crisis looking for help options have been frightened by reports that residential treatment centers are cults that torture children. This type of paranoia campaign belies the fact that residential teen help centers are regulated by their states and are required to have actual medical professionals on staff to design and run the program.
Here at Eagle Ranch Academy, we offer help to teens 11-17 years old who are struggling with a range of issues, from depression, ADD, ADHD, avoidance issues (running away), drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders to negative emotional responses (anger, withdrawal). We help them to heal in a loving environment.
Our program is run according to Utah state guidelines:
• We are licensed by the state as a Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center
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• We have a clinical coordinator overseeing all medical personnel
• Our staff is full of medical professionals, such as: behavioral psychologists, clinical psychologists, medical doctors (MD), nurses, educational psychologists, and psychiatrists.
• Our staff also has certified professionals who take care of non-medical services related to care, such as: licensed case workers, licensed case managers, licensed fitness instructors, licensed academic instructors.
• We provide an accredited academic curriculum.
• Our staff has over 100 years of combined experience.
• We do not punish our students through any physical means; in fact, we provide everything your child will need while in the program: clothes, school supplies, food, equipment, transportation, etc. Our reward based program does not withhold any necessities, rather, it grants desires based on hard work.
• Parents are fully incorporated into the program; they will not be prohibited from communicating with their child whenever they want, or from getting any information about their child. In fact, we have Emotional Growth Seminars for everyone in the family to attend.
• We are upfront about the costs of the program, and will help you to navigate the different options available to you to make it possible, including scholarships (some even for parents), and coverage through your health insurance.
• Your teen will be in a tolerant atmosphere—he or she can practice whatever religion they freely adhere to.
• Most of all, our approach combines the best of solid clinical care with self discovery techniques, implemented through our Emotional Growth Seminars, Value Based Behavior Modification program, and Life Coaching Skills program.
At Eagle Ranch Academy, we do not involve fear in any of our therapy techniques. We want troubled, struggling teens to feel safe and to be able to express how they feel about themselves and their lives. We have open ended completion dates because when a student graduates depends on when they are ready to look at themselves honestly and choose to turn their life around.
To promote this, our program promotes self-introspection in various ways, not coercion. We want our teens to recover their sense of self, because only then can they effect long-lasting change in their lives. That is the complete opposite of motivation through the use of fear—which only breaks down a teen’s sense of self.
Here at Eagle Ranch Academy residential treatment center, we use love to heal and motivate troubled teens, not fear.
