What Is a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for Teens?
When a teenager’s behavior begins to affect others, their academic performance starts slipping, or their habits start changing for the worse, these could be a cry for help. While there are plenty of treatment options available to provide mental health support, parents may not know which is appropriate. If a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) was […]
How Turning Winds Helps Families Use Insurance for Residential Treatment
Deciding to send your teen to a residential treatment center is never easy. For many parents, it comes after months or even years of trying to make things work through weekly therapy, medication changes, or crisis interventions. By the time residential care becomes part of the conversation, most families are already emotionally exhausted. Needing to […]
When To Consider Residential Treatment for Teens and How Insurance Coverage Works
For many parents, the idea of residential treatment does not come up early in their child’s mental health journey. Quite often, it enters the conversation after months or even years of trying to help their children in other ways: weekly therapy, school-based counseling, adjustments at home, and medication. When those efforts do not lead to […]
PHP vs. Residential Treatment for Teens: How To Know Which Level of Care Is Needed
When parents are told their teens need a “higher level of care,” there may be confusion about what this actually means. On top of that, different professionals and institutions, including therapists, school counselors, hospitals, or insurance representatives, may provide different recommendations, adding to the uncertainty of what the next steps should look like. Some may […]
Beyond the “Wild West”: How Turning Winds Helped Build SB191 to Ensure the Safest, Most Effective Care for Montana Teens
For years, people in our industry talked about Montana’s teen treatment landscape as the “Wild West.” Limited oversight. A patchwork of licensing categories. Families navigating a system that didn’t make sense. Some providers saw that as freedom. We saw it as a problem. At Turning Winds, we’ve spent more than two decades building a program […]
Parenting with Empathy and Understanding from Dr. Foster Cline and the Love and Logic Approach
Dr. Foster Cline, a world-renowned child and adult psychiatrist, co-founded Love and Logic with educator Jim Fay. Their collaboration helped generations of parents and educators discover that empathy and accountability can work together to create lasting change. Love and Logic teaches that children grow best when they feel both loved and responsible for their own […]
Teens Are Using Social Apps to Get Vapes Delivered in Hours
Parents often think of Snapchat as a place where teens share silly photos. For many teens, this is true. But what we are also seeing is that the same app has quietly turned into a marketplace where vapes are only a message away. A teen might reach out to someone they barely know. A few […]
Leadership Training at Turning Winds
Turning Winds is a residential treatment center for teenagers, with a full continuum of care for mental health issues. It combines elements of wilderness therapy and a relational treatment approach with a full medical and clinical team while also offering a full academic staff to provide the much-needed support for your child. Peer mentoring and […]
Why Teens Relapse After Treatment & How Sober Living Helps
1 % of teens relapse without structured aftercare Learn About Our complete Treatment Approach What Happens after Detox or Rehab? You’ve made the agonizing decision to send your teen to drug and alcohol addiction treatment, and you’re holding onto the hope that they’ll come home healthy. But in a world where drugs are more accessible […]
At Turning Winds Therapy Goes Deeper
Are you seeking a transformative solution for your teen’s challenges? Turning Winds offers a long-term residential treatment center for teens that fills the gaps left by other treatment options. Such a transformation takes time. Most teens need between six to nine months, but the results are often dramatic. Alumna Madison (not her real name) was […]