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The Gift of Turning Winds

Like many of our clients, before starting treatment, Daniel behaved in a way that filled his home “with chaos,” as his mother Amanda puts it. “He was isolating himself, using drugs. After years of therapy, he didn’t want to go anymore.” THE POWER OF A THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOL Before learning about Turning Winds, Amanda had […]

The Deep Impact of Gratitude

Adolescent Teen Therapy Session for Mental Health - Impact of Gratitude

“Gratitude really is good for you,” assured health and wellness reporter Christina Caron readers of The New York Times last year. “Giving, receiving and even witnessing gratitude can improve your well-being, especially during difficult times.” Two decades ago, psychologist Robert A. Emmons explored the benefits of gratitude in a landmark scientific study. “Dr. Emmons’s findings—which […]

Relearning Social Relationships

Two teens engaging in healthy social activities.

Technologically speaking, the current generation of teenagers lives in a world unknown to their parents when they were that age. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic devices are everywhere and hard to avoid. Social media use seems unavoidable, but for many young Americans, social media platforms have had a very negative impact on their actual […]

Learning to Appreciate the Power of a Good Book

Teen reads in bed as therapy

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found,” wrote the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his autobiographical collage Palm Sunday. “By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me […]

Four Months to Turn a Teen’s Life Around

Eighteen-year-old Ben grew up in a military family. His father Greg served in the US Army for 29 years and consequently, the family moved a lot. Ben went to elementary school when they lived in Texas. “He was showing this disruptive behavior and a kind of cocky attitude,” remembers his mother Laura. “He wasn’t really […]

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 […]

Comprehensive Care for Mental Health & Substance Use

Teens at Turning Winds laughing and speaking with a counselor in a beautiful setting. Turning Winds offer Comprehensive Care for Mental Health and Substance Use

“Every day brings more evidence that our nation’s youth are facing a mental health crisis: rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts among young people are on the rise, and so are adolescent deaths from drug poisoning,” warned Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and the Director of National Drug Control Policy Rahul Gupta in July in […]

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 […]

Wendy Williams Talks Substance Abuse And Her Son

Talk show host Wendy Williams opens her show with blunt discussion on substance abuse You already know her for “Hot Topics”, but now popular talk show host Wendy Williams is discussing a new topic that is close to her and her family. Last Monday, the host revealed to her studio audience that her young 14-year-old […]