Recovery

Your teen is getting treatment at a teen rehab center. Now what? While treatment can be challenging, it can be equally difficult for your child to maintain progress after leaving the more supervised and structured elements of a teen rehab center. Your adolescent will be re-exposed to all the stressors in their environments (like their friends, not-such-great friends, school, and more). They’ll need a post-treatment plan that will keep supporting

There’s a little-known fact about recovery from mental health and substance use disorders: the person in treatment is not the only one who changes. A growing body of research shows that achieving and maintaining long-term, sustainable mental health and sobriety is far more likely when members of the immediate family engage in the therapeutic process alongside the person in recovery. Immediate family doesn’t necessarily mean the traditional nuclear family: it

The transition from alcohol or substance abuse treatment back to home life can be an emotionally charged time for everyone involved. For parents, it’s often a mirror image of the days and weeks immediately preceding treatment. Before you placed your teenager in a residential program, you probably felt a disconcerting and uncomfortable jumble of sadness, anger, fear, uncertainty, and that special parenting emotion – guilt. Now, as your teenager’s return-home

Breathe. That’s the first and most important thing for you to do – but we won’t include it in our list of five tips, because it’s more than a simple pointer or a random bullet on a clickable list. Think of it as your mantra. Make it the default, bedrock advice you give yourself every time you stress about your teen’s recovery journey. Step back, take a moment, give yourself