Parenting Troubled Teens Help and Advice
By Denise Witmer, About.com Guide
- Advice for Parents of Troubled Teens
- Teen Drug Use and Abuse
- Teen Depression
- Programs for Troubled Teens
Advice for Parents of Troubled Teens
Sometimes it isn't 'troubled teen issues' that parents of troubled teens need advice about. Sometimes it is just being the parent of a troubled teen that is the issue. Here is advice for you, the parent of a troubled teen, to help you keep trying and know that you are not alone.
- 6 Ways to Deal Compassionately With Your Troubled Teen
- Is It My Fault My Teen is Troubled?
- The Courage to Parent a Troubled Teen
- 7 Secrets to Surviving a Troubled Teen
- Are You Tired of Your Troubled Teen?
- Do Troubled Teens Get Better?
- 14 Ways to Avoid Enabling a Troubled Teen
Teen Drug Use and Abuse
Troubled teens often turn to drug use as a way to deal with other troubled teen issues like depression, gangs, physical abuse, etc. The troubled teen's problem then becomes two-fold: the base issue they were dealing with and the drug use issue. Here is some advice and help for parents of troubled teens who are dealing with these types of substance abuse problems.
- Screening Quiz: Is Your Teenager Using Drugs?
- Warning Signs of Teenage Drug Abuse
- Warning to Parents: Teens Are Using Synthetic Marijuana to Get High
- An Important Warning to Parents: Teens are Using Nutmeg to Get High
- Salvia, What is it?
- How To Set the Rules: Teens and Drug Use
- 10 of the Most Important Things Parents Need to Know About Marijuana
- Where can a parent get help if their teen is using drugs?
- 12-Step Programs for Teens Abusing Drugs
- Drug Treatment Programs: Help for Teens Using Drugs
- Drug Testing Methods
- Teens in Treatment Terms: Self-Medicating
- Teens in Treatment Terms: Dual Diagnosis
- Teens in Treatment Terms: Resistance
- Index of Drugs of Abuse
- Could Your Teen Develop a Drinking Problem?
- Parenting Community Advice: Caught Your Teen Drinking Alcohol What Did You Do
Teen Depression
Depression is another troubled teen issue that can be the whole problem or be a tag-along issue with another troubled teen problem. Find helpful advice in the articles below on recognizing teen depression, understand teen depression and getting your depressed teen the treatment they need.
- Teen Depression Quiz: Is your teenager depressed?
- Signs of Teen Depression
- 7 Self-Help Strategies for Depressed Teens
- Therapy Options for Your Depressed Teen
- 5 Things You Should Do if You Think Your Teen is Depressed
- The Dangers of Untreated Depression in Teens
- From Our Parenting Community: The First Signs of My Teen's Depression
- Treatment Programs for Teens Suffering From Depression
- Understand and Help if Your Teen is Showing Signs of Depression
Programs for Troubled Teens
Troubled teens often need more help than their parents can provide alone. Here is a listing of programs for troubled teens including information and resources on wilderness camps, boot camps, residential treatment cents, therapeutic boarding schools, religious based residential treatment programs, alternative high schools and more.
- How to Hospitalize a Teen in Crisis
- Diversion Programs: A Way to Help Teens Who are Arrested
- Day Treatment Programs for Troubled Teens
- Temporary Shelters for Teens in Crisis
- Wilderness Therapy for Troubled Teens
- Residential Treatment Centers for Troubled Teens
- Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens
- Boot Camps for Troubled Teens: The Pros and Cons
- Religious Based Residential Treatment Programs
- Psychiatric Hospitalization for Troubled Teens
- Programs for Eating Disorders in Teens
- All Programs for Troubled Teens Resources
Self Injury and Self Harm
No matter how you term a troubled teen's problem of cutting or hurting themselves, whether it's Self-Injury, Self-Mutilation or Self-Abuse, it is a growing problem for parents of troubled teens. Learn more about the problem of self injury and how to get help for your troubled teen.
- The Choking Game: Is Your Teen Playing?
- How do I Know if My Teen is Engaging in Self-Harm or Self-Injury?
- Why do Teens Hurt Themselves with Self-Harming Behaviors?
- How to Help Your Teen If They Are Cutting
- CUT: A Young Adult Novel by Patricia McCormick
- When Teens Self-Harm: How Dangerous Is It?
Teen Pregnancy
Help and advice for parents of teens who are or may be dealing with a teen pregnancy.
- How to Talk to Your Teen About Teen Pregnancy
- Why should teen pregnancy concern everyone?
- My teen son's girlfriend is pregnant. What do I do?
- My teen daughter just told me she is pregnant. What do I do?
- Can my daughter get an abortion without my consent?
- Teen Birth Rate Rises for First Time in 15 Years
Teen Violence and Bullying
Advice for parenting troubled teens on dating violence, gangs, bullying and more.