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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Teenagers with Addictive Phone Use at Higher Suicide Risk
This article mentions 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. There have been many recent warnings about the psychological impact of relentless smartphone and social media use on […]
Treating Reactive Attachment Disorder
Turning Winds works with teenagers, ages 13–18, who would benefit from clinical therapy and academic guidance as they transition to adulthood. We specialize in many of the most common mental health conditions, such as low self-esteem, behavioral problems, poor academic performance, and various disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, substance […]
Curious Parenting to Support Your Kids
“All loving parents face essentially the same challenge: raising children who have their heads on straight and will have a good chance to make it in the big world,” wrote Foster Cline, MD, and co-author Jim Fay in Parenting with Love and Logic. “We must equip our darling offspring to make the move from total […]
More Than Just Bad Grades: When Your Teen’s Academic Struggles Signal Mental Health Decline
Worsening grades, skipping school, and missing assignments are often dismissed as the behavior of a lazy and distracted teenager. But when a once-engaged student no longer hands in homework, retreats from their friends, or stops participating in school activities or projects altogether, it may indicate something far more serious than a lack of discipline. Academic […]
How to Guide Your Children When They Make Mistakes
All parents in America essentially face the same challenge: how do we raise children to make good decisions and have a good chance to succeed in our incredibly complex, fast-changing world? As many parents know all too well, that’s not an easy task. “In this incredibly complex, fast-changing age, responsible kids are the only ones […]