What do Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens Offer?
A therapeutic boarding school offers 24-hour care, varied levels of therapy, education, and a structured environment. Therapeutic boarding schools are usually a long-term placement with placement period of 12-18 months. The enlightening environment of therapeutic boarding schools offers an opporunity for adolescents to recognize and work through behaviors, attitudes and addictions that may have occured with a troubled teen in the past. Troubled teens are usually placed in therapeutic boarding schools with problems such as failing in school, mild drug abuse, defiant behavior, running away, depression, manipulation, low self-esteem, and general rebellion to name a few. Some boarding schools may choose to specialize in one category or another. Most programs will not accept troubled teens with a history of violence.
