Wilderness Therapy Programs for Troubled Teens in Springfield, OH
Within the last few decades, America (including Springfield, OH) has seen the demographic of adolescents deemed, troubled, or out of control, reach epidemic numbers. While experts aren’t sure as to why our nation’s teens increasingly turn to negative behavioral patterns, modern-day issues such as easier access to drugs and the advent of the internet, social media and other screen-based distractions (to name a few) are most likely significant contributing factors.
But with the number of troubled teens rising each year, cities like Springfield, OH so too is the number of residential treatment centers that advertise their services to parents seeking respite and therapeutic healing for their child.
And, while many of these treatment programs are well-intentioned and run by those who truly believe in their program’s treatment model and core curriculum, parents from Springfield, OH and elsewhere are all too often duped into sending their teenage daughter to an expensive program that at best, is ineffective in treating their child’s behavioral and emotional issues, and, at worst, exacerbates said issues even further.
Among these detrimental programs are treatment facilities that pose as wilderness therapy programs for troubled teens when in reality, they are more akin to glorified outdoor boot camps.
With the wilderness industry's increasing popularity and recent mainstream exposure, parents sometimes unwittingly send their children to programs that omit the clinical aspects of wilderness therapy.
Though technically a wilderness program, these treatment facilities omit the very foundations that make wilderness therapy effective, and instead, utilize behavioral modification and punishments to enact change within their campers.
For example, instead of providing experiential group therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, and cognitive behavior therapy, like the most reputable, adventure-based programs, these facilities merely seek to exploit the natural environment as a means to 'break' their campers, before 'building' them back up again.
These tactics are not only deceitful and misrepresent genuine wilderness therapy camps, they often aggravate the very issues campers were sent there to correct, to begin with.
Considering the average wilderness program is $500 dollars per day with a $3,000 dollar enrollment fee (not including what it would cost to transport said teen through a transport company two or more times) choosing this route of treatment is quite expensive.
Legitimate and Cost-effective Wilderness Therapy Programs for teens from the Springfield, OH area
For moms and dads from Springfield, OH unwilling to pay double (or potentially triple) for a wilderness program for their teenage daughter, there are cost-effective and dynamic treatment options to consider - like that of Elk Mountain Academy.
Elk Mountain Academy is a Christ-centered wilderness therapy program and residential treatment center for troubled teenage girls.
Elk Mountain Academy offers affordable, expert treatment for life-controlling issues and disorders in girls from the Springfield, OH area, including:
- attachment disorders
- attention deficit
- eating disorders
- anxiety, depression
- self-destructive or antisocial behavior behavior
- adoption-related issues
We lead troubled girls from Springfield, OH to seek truth and to trust in the Holy Spirit, our Holy Comforter who was given to all believers in Christ. At EMA we coach and train our students to seek, trust, and rely on the Holy Spirit, who is their comforter.
For more information regarding our treatment program, please call us today at (208) 266-1122.
Mental Health Resources for Struggling Teenage Girls from Springfield, OH
Elk Mountain Academy is the optimal choice for parents from Springfield, OH who are exploring a top therapeutic boarding school to deliver support for their troubled child taking part in internet addiction (social media, porn, YouTube), reaction to a divorce, or eating disorder related challenges. Since it can be difficult to work with highly resistant teen girls, most programs rely heavily upon level systems, punishments, and other disciplinary tactics in order to manage a teen girl’s behavior. Here at EMA, we recognize that the situation of one troubled child may not apply to all of our young clients.
Our clinicians are dedicated to not only offering direction to our young clients in need, but also the whole family; with the care and commitment required for full remediation. It is our desire to assist, guide, and coach parents from Springfield, OH, with a struggling child, through a very difficult time. EMA is here to serve! There is hope... and you are not alone. The vision of EMA is to bring forth peace while restoring emotional health for troubled teenage girls from Springfield, OH.
Because we specialize in a variety of relevant residential treatment strategies (equine, life training, behavioral therapy) and offer outdoor recreation and adventure therapy, troubled teenage girls can grow to be healthy adults, and Elk Mountain’s young clients can emerge as strong people who are motivated to succeed. EMA recognizes that the entire family needs the direction that our professional clinicians deliver; so that your child can be rehabilitated and whole. EMA’s family consultants can be reached immediately at (208) 266-1122.
Additional Support in Springfield, OH
Are you a parent of a troubled teen girl from Springfield, OH and need support for challenges pertaining to domestic violence? If you are in crisis right now, call the Springfield, OH National Domestic Violence Hotline number listed here.
"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
- 1 Corinthians 6:11
No matter where you live in Springfield, OH, if you are a Christian family in crisis due to domestic violence, call the national hotline number now. The National Domestic Violence advocates in Springfield, OH are available 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). The Springfield, OH advocates speak in more than 200 languages. All calls from Springfield, OH are free and confidential.