A Weekend Workshop and a Facebook Group: Invaluable Support for Turning Winds Parents
Parents who send their kids to Turning Winds usually have been through a lot. Linda and Frank Dawson are no exception. Their son Charlie started misusing drugs and alcohol in middle school and he became aggressively defiant—especially with his dad. “We felt it had gotten beyond our ability to deal with it,” remembers Frank. In […]
The Digital Madness of America’s Youth: Teen Mental Health at Risk
The Alarming Impact of Digital Media on Teens’ Mental Health “Today’s media landscape is larger and more diverse than ever before, with youth having access to an unprecedented volume of digital content across numerous devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers, laptops, and gaming consoles,” wrote Jacqueline Nesi in a 2020 article for the North Carolina Medical […]
The Healing Power of Character Education and Life Skills Training
Turning Winds fosters a therapeutic environment modeling functional family communion to help adolescents achieve better mental health and establish beliefs that support personal success and long-term stability in teens. Character Education: A Key to Unlocking Teen Potential Character education and life skills training are crucial elements of this approach. At Turning Winds, we offer clients […]
Get Your Teenager the Help They Need
Generation Z, also referred to as iGen, digital natives, and most commonly as Gen Z comprises individuals born between 1995 and 2012 and now accounts for approximately a quarter of the US population. Members of Gen Z have experienced significant disruption in a short time with changes in the political, social, technological, and economic landscape. […]
Turning Winds: A Destination For Transformative Healing
Are you seeking a transformative solution for your teen’s challenges? Turning Winds offers a unique, long-term residential treatment program for teens that fills the gaps left by conventional options. Our holistic and relational approach, guided by experts like Dr. John Gordon and CEO Owen Baisden, ensures profound and lasting change for your teen. Turning Winds […]
Find Essential Parenting Support for Teen Recovery at Turning Winds
Substance misuse and disruptive behavior inflict harm on the individual and create a ripple effect of emotional turmoil throughout the family. During these stressful and challenging times, family engagement plays a vital role in the healing and recovery of teenagers with substance use and mental health issues. When faced with these emotional or behavioral challenges, […]
Help Your Teen Break Free from Social Media & Build a Happier Future
Today’s teenagers live in a world saturated with technology, a world unknown to their parents when they were that age. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic devices are everywhere and hard to avoid. The pervasive nature of social media and technology overuse use seems unavoidable, but for many young Americans, social media platforms have had […]
Why Sleep Is Critical For Teenage Health
“Over 75 percent of US high school students do not get the sleep they need. So, why does it matter that teens are sleep-deprived? What’s the big deal about getting enough sleep?” asked Rutgers psychology professor Jessica Leigh Hamilton recently on Psychology Today. Dr. Hamilton listed three main reasons in the article Sleep is critical […]
Don’t Delay When Your Teen Needs Treatment
Sending your child to a residential treatment program is not an easy decision for parents to make—at any time of the year. “It’s not a call any family wants to make,” says Turning Winds admissions director Eric Loesch. “In most cases, they have explored what seemed less drastic steps or lower levels of care, such […]
Let’s Start the New Year Right: Helping Teens Become Competent Goal-setters
“Goal setting and monitoring are a collaborative means of mapping and tracking a course of mutually accountable treatment,” wrote Magill, Martino, and Wampold in their 2021 study on the principles and practices of goal-setting in the treatment of substance use disorder. It’s one of the cornerstones of the services provided at Turning Winds. “We’re all […]
