Wilderness Programs for Troubled Teens in Maryland


There are aspects of Maryland wilderness program settings that inhibit the emotional growth and education of troubled teens. Most change efforts involve verbal interchanges between staff and participant. This is not an effective way of reaching many people, especially troubled teens who may be resistant to talking or who lack trust in adult authority figures. Wilderness Programs in Maryland offer a physically active way for staff and participants to relate to one another, so the emphasis is not solely on talk.

The wilderness is an outstanding method used in treating troubled teens. Leaving behind the ongoing distractions of computers, cell phones and unwise peers, teens feel free to discard their "image" and understand themselves in a deeper way. Moving outside their comfort zone, these teens start learning new skills and begin to see life from a different perspective. While in a wilderness program, teens have 24-hour support from field guides and therapists who encourage them to begin replacing negative thoughts and habits with positive ones. As the trip progresses, the teen begins to see a natural environment teeming with positive life and beauty. Soon, the same sense of a proper environment can transfer to the living system of the troubled teen.
Currently there are no wilderness programs in Maryland. There are many other alternatives to wilderness programs. Therapeutic Boarding Schools offer services including constant staff supervision, therapists and counselors for both male and female teens who have mental disorders or drug problems. They provide a safe environment where the troubled teen is away from negative outside influences. Boarding schools provide a facility where teens live together and are monitored by teachers.

There are still many options available if you do not have a wilderness program in your area. Boarding schools for troubled teens can be vary valuable and have an extremely powerful impact.

For immediate help with placing your child in the correct program or school please contact ALA, (Abundant Life Academy) to talk to a child education specialist at 888-305-6729.

For a more comprehensive listing of Wilderness Programs in Maryland please click on the links below

Baltimore, Columbia, Silver Spring, Dundalk, Wheaton-Glenmont, Ellicott City, Germantown, Bethesda, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Towson, Bowie, Aspen Hill, Rockville, Potomac, Catonsville, Bel Air South, Essex, Glen Burnie, North Bethesda, Montgomery Village, Hagerstown, Woodlawn, Annapolis, Oxon Hill-Glassmanor
 



Abundant Life Academy is among Christian boarding schools with residential therapy and behavioral therapy for troubled teen girls and boys with teen counseling for girls and boys to improve behavior of teenagers struggling with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

Abundant Life Academy provides troubled teens with teen counseling for girls and boys and adolescent therapy. Our Christian boarding schools serve girls an boys from in Texas, in Utah, in California, in Oregon and in Washington State in the West Coast and in Arizona, in New Mexico, in Oklahoma and in Nevada in the Southwest. In the southern and central states we serve teens in Arkansas, in Kentucky, in Tennessee, in Missouri, in Louisiana, and in Mississippi, in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana and in Illinois and in the northern states in Montana, in North Dakota, in Minnesota, and in Idaho in the north, and along the east coast from in Georgia to in Florida, in Virginia, in New York, in North Carolina, in Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey.