Noun Bipolar disorder in teens, also called manic-depressive disorder, is associated with mood swings that range from the lows of depression to the highs of mania. When your mood shifts in the other direction, you may feel euphoric and full of energy. When you become depressed, you may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities....[ read more ]

Bluefire Wilderness Therapy is a premier wilderness therapy program for troubled teens struggling with emotional, social and behavioral challenges. They utilize a comprehensive approach to teen treatment based on research and decades of experience. Their comprehensive multi-faceted and clinical approach in the wilderness helps teens and their parents navigate this journey in a positive direction. They believe that through a...[ read more ]

Noun Boot camps can be governmental, being part of the correctional and penal system of some countries, but most of them are in the United States. Private boot camps, using generally the same methods, offer programs as "quick-fix solutions" for the children of parents who hope to regain lost control of their teens or who desire behavior modification. Modeled after...[ read more ]

Noun A boot camp for boys uses scare tactics and negative reinforcement in a structured military-like setting to reform the negative behaviors boys may be expressing. Most boot camps for boys focus on instilling a sense of discipline and structure in the young men who attend. The idea most boot camps for boys are based around is that this sense...[ read more ]

Noun Boot camps for troubled teens are behavioral modification programs that are designed with the intentions of rehabilitating troubled adolescents. Despite its popularity, boot camps have been proven, as a whole, to be ineffective in promoting true, long-lasting changes in the behavioral patterns of troubled teens and can sometimes result in a child returning even worse than before. Boot camps...[ read more ]

Noun Boot camps for troubled teens are behavioral modification programs that are designed with the intentions of rehabilitating troubled adolescents. Despite its popularity, boot camps have been proven, as a whole, to be ineffective in promoting true, long-lasting changes in the behavioral patterns of troubled teens and can sometimes result in a child returning even worse than before. Boot camps...[ read more ]

Bullying is the use of force, threaten, intimidate, abuse, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. Bullying is also characterized as an individual continuously acts in an aggressive and antisocial manner with peers or family. This is often caused by some anger or self-image issues. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of social...[ read more ]