Treatment as a Change in the Family System
Families come first at Turning Winds. Two of our treatment goals are increasing the healthy autonomy of our students while promoting better integration into their families and assisting their return to live successfully within their family system after completing the program. Family connection is one of the 12 character virtues taught in our program: students […]
Celebrating Milestones And Achievements In Adolescent Treatment Programs: A Guide For Parents
Treatment at Turning Winds typically takes a much of a year—nevertheless, it is only the beginning of a new life for your teen and your family. “The real test, for both you and your teen, comes after discharge,” author Tim Thayne advised parents in his book Not By Chance. “While both of you have made personal changes, […]
Give Them Enough Time
Many residential treatment centers for teenage clients are not set up for long-term care, focusing on 30–90-day treatment periods instead. This is great for getting teens in crisis to stabilize but it is often not enough time to facilitate lasting change. In our experience, adequate time is a must for the growth and change required […]
The Turning Winds Kitchen Got an Upgrade!
Good nutrition is an important requirement for growing bodies in recovery. “You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body,” advised the Roman poet Juvenal nineteen centuries ago—making that motto famous ever since. For teenagers with mental health and substance misuse issues a healthy diet is key to a positive treatment outcome. In […]
The Power of Staying Connected
The Turning Winds model of care is based on therapeutic support in a setting that emulates a functional family system. Since its founding, the idea of family has remained a foundational precept of the program. Staff is carefully selected based on their ability to comfortably and productively operate within the home-like, non-institutional atmosphere of the […]
Turning Winds Students Getting Excited About Upcoming Service Trip to Morocco
Turning Winds organizes international service trips abroad for clients twice a year. They are part and parcel of the therapeutic experience for our teenagers since the focus is on helping other people. Traveling to foreign countries to be immersed in other cultures and help people less fortunate than ourselves is an exciting opportunity to gain […]
Turning Winds: A Clinical Model Built For Success
At Turning Winds the clinical services are unique since we extend treatment beyond the confines of four walls. We could not think of a better setting to apply our therapeutic approach than the serene landscape of northwestern Montana. We have taken the best elements of care from wilderness therapy, therapeutic boarding schools, and inpatient treatment […]
Turning Winds Offers Healthy Activities For Every Season
Situated in the remote woods of Montana, Turning Winds offers young people a purposeful remove to find the self-confidence essential to leading a purposeful life. Here, away from the artifice and relentlessness of our current culture, young people can become free from the perceptions that reinforce negative thinking and instead accept new ideas and skills […]
The Turning Winds Team – Dedicated to Helping Your Child
At Turning Winds, it’s the people who make all the difference. Over the course of more than 20 years, we’ve built a team of some of the world’s finest academic and therapeutic professionals, all of whom share the same goal: to provide help for troubled teens and get them re-engaged with their lives, their families, […]
Learning as Therapy
Turning Winds seeks to turn hearts and minds toward a brighter future. We offer a high-quality academic experience for each teenage student. As clients in a residential treatment center with a strong academic program, they are provided with a highly individualized academic experience. “Academics is a really important part of our program,” says Turning Winds […]
