Turning Winds — A Safe Place for Teens to Heal
A unique long-term residential treatment program for teens that fills the gap left by conventional options. A safe place for teens to heal.
Healing Teens, Forging Lifelong Relationships and Building Futures
Welcome to Turning Winds: Where Every Teen Is Family At Turning Winds, a premier residential treatment center for teens, we are dedicated to forging lifelong relationships and healing teens. To us, you’re more than just a client. Our model of care, renowned for its effective therapeutic support, mirrors a functional family system. This system is […]
How to Handle ADHD in an Academic Environment
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood. Children with ADHD may have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors, or being overly active. ADHD was first included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders […]
Why Co-occurring Disorders Are Common
The presence of two or more disorders can complicate any diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Integrating both screening and treatment for mental health and substance use disorders leads to a better quality of care and more positive outcomes for those living with co-occurring disorders by treating the whole person. Patients who present with symptoms of a […]
The New ADHD Plaguing Our Youths
This article includes the topic of suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text, or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. People with mental illness are more likely to experience a substance use disorder than those […]
When the Identified Patient Turns Into a Scapegoat
The so-called “identified patient is a proverbial scapegoat,” wrote Annie Wright, LMFT, on Psychology Today in 2022. “Identified patients are often the first people in the room to nod their heads when the term ‘black sheep’ is said. You say ‘scapegoat,’ and they say ‘yes.’ They know what it is to feel lonely, unsupported, and […]
Teenage Depression in “The Son”
This article discusses suicide. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. The movie The Son had its world premiere last year at the Venice International Film Festival. The nationwide release in the US followed […]
New Health Advisory on Social Media Use For Teens
Social media platforms have had an immense impact on the lives of today’s teens. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey of some 750 13–17-year-olds found that 45 percent were online almost constantly and 97 percent used social media platforms, such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat. These numbers are unlikely to have gone down since […]
Gen Z: The Most Dissatisfied And Depressed Generation
Six years ago, author and psychology professor Jean Twenge warned of a youth mental health crisis on the horizon. Rates of depression, anxiety, and loneliness were rising. And she had a hypothesis for the cause: smartphones and the social media that come with them. In her influential 2017 book iGen, Twenge describes members of the […]
Helping America’s Traumatized Youth
“The inexorable rise of teen anxiety ought to be a national crisis,” wrote Derek Thompson in The Atlantic in February. In a previous article, he had offered four possible explanations for this crisis: “the prevalence of social media use; the decline of time spent with friends; a more stressful world of mass-shooting events and existential […]
