Eagle Ranch Academy Supplies Treatment Adolescent Depression

As a residential treatment center for troubled adolescents, here at Eagle Ranch Academy we see many young people whose lives have been ruined by depression. So many clinical disorders and destructive behaviors, such as drug and alcohol abuse, ADHD, bipolar disorder and anorexia, have depression as a component of the overall problem.

We take the necessary steps to adequately supply treatment to adolescents suffering from depression in our program. First of all, many of them come to us already on various medications that have been prescribed by their primary care physicians and others. Our program is not just a specific drug treatment course, therapy course, or a 12 step program. We include all of these and much more, including emotional growth and life skills training, intensive group and individual therapy, fitness and nutrition services, character building and self discovery, etc. We believe depression is a multi-faceted issue that requires a multi-faceted approach.

Since we are one of the most comprehensive residential treatment centers in the nation, we get many students who reside out of state. Thus, to treat their depression effectively and to make it easy on their parents, we have clinical staff on hand to be able to assess, prescribe and monitor their prescription treatment needs.

Many insurances make it extremely difficult to transfer prescriptions outside of your home state. It can be a nightmare if you know your adolescent needs his or her medication to function, but their primary care doctor’s office (or primary mental health practitioner’s office) is telling you they can’t transfer the meds, and your insurance is telling you that you will have to pick up the cost. In fact, if your child has been on a depression medication for some time and will need it ongoing, they might be required to periodically present in person for reassessments, even to get their refills written.

At Eagle Ranch Academy, we have an open-ended program. This means that your child’s graduation of the program depends on their individual progress—not a predetermined length of time. This is an incentive for troubled teens to really take the different treatment strategies to heart, and to truly make an internal change. Otherwise, we know that they will just “wait out” the program and return to self destructive behaviors when they get home. Our aim is to address their issues (be it depression, addiction, anger, avoidance, eating disorder, etc), and to get them to WANT to change their own behaviors. From our standpoint, this is the only way to achieve long term behavioral change.

As such, your adolescent might be with us for a few months. He or she will need their medications. As they detoxify in our natural environment with exercise and wholesome food, they will probably also need their medications to be adjusted.  That is why we have medical staff on hand in the form of a medical doctor (MD- general practitioner), psychiatrists and psychologists. Our medical doctor is involved in the initial physical evaluation and lab tests that we perform when teens first enter the program. He also makes regular scheduled visits and is on call 24 hours per day. Our Psychiatrists, psychologists and licensed therapists are here at Eagle Ranch Academy full time.

Eagle Ranch Academy helps adolescents suffering from depression not only with medication, but with a range of therapy options, including 1 on 1 talk sessions, group counseling, prescription drug treatment, embedded therapists as instructors, unique workshops, emotional growth seminars, physical fitness, and nutrition.  We have a staff comprised of state-licensed, highly qualified, well experienced experts who are able to supply multi-faceted treatment options to adolescents suffering with depression.

Eagle Ranch Academy Teaches Motivation with Love versus Fear

Recently, families with teens in crisis looking for help options have been frightened by reports that residential treatment centers are cults that torture children. This type of paranoia campaign belies the fact that residential teen help centers are regulated by their states and are required to have actual medical professionals on staff to design and run the program.

Here at Eagle Ranch Academy, we offer help to teens 11-17 years old who are struggling with a range of issues, from depression, ADD, ADHD, avoidance issues (running away), drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders to negative emotional responses (anger, withdrawal). We help them to heal in a loving environment.

Our program is run according to Utah state guidelines:

• We are licensed by the state as a Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center
• We have a clinical coordinator overseeing all medical personnel
• Our staff is full of medical professionals, such as: behavioral psychologists, clinical psychologists, medical doctors (MD), nurses, educational psychologists, and psychiatrists.
• Our staff also has certified professionals who take care of non-medical services related to care, such as: licensed case workers, licensed case managers, licensed fitness instructors, licensed academic instructors.
• We provide an accredited academic curriculum.
• Our staff has over 100 years of combined experience.
• We do not punish our students through any physical means; in fact, we provide everything your child will need while in the program: clothes, school supplies, food, equipment, transportation, etc. Our reward based program does not withhold any necessities, rather, it grants desires based on hard work.
• Parents are fully incorporated into the program; they will not be prohibited from communicating with their child whenever they want, or from getting any information about their child. In fact, we have Emotional Growth Seminars for everyone in the family to attend.
• We are upfront about the costs of the program, and will help you to navigate the different options available to you to make it possible, including scholarships (some even for parents), and coverage through your health insurance.
• Your teen will be in a tolerant atmosphere—he or she can practice whatever religion they freely adhere to.
• Most of all, our approach combines the best of solid clinical care with self discovery techniques, implemented through our Emotional Growth Seminars, Value Based Behavior Modification program, and Life Coaching Skills program.

At Eagle Ranch Academy, we do not involve fear in any of our therapy techniques. We want troubled, struggling teens to feel safe and to be able to express how they feel about themselves and their lives. We have open ended completion dates because when a student graduates depends on when they are ready to look at themselves honestly and choose to turn their life around.

To promote this, our program promotes self-introspection in various ways, not coercion. We want our teens to recover their sense of self, because only then can they effect long-lasting change in their lives. That is the complete opposite of motivation through the use of fear—which only breaks down a teen’s sense of self.

Here at Eagle Ranch Academy residential treatment center, we use love to heal and motivate troubled teens, not fear.

Eagle Ranch Academy Works With Different Kinds of Troubled Teens

Eagle Ranch Academy is the most comprehensive youth residential program available to troubled teens in Utah. We help teens who are struggling with substance and alcohol abuse, medical diagnoses such as ADHD, weight related disorders or clinical depression, kids who have emotional issues related to coping with divorce or avoidance issues (running away).

We are actually a working ranch, and use work around the ranch as well as work in the community a part of the program. Physical labor gives teens a sense of purpose and satisfaction when they are completed. They are an important part of the regimen of therapy, nutritional and medical care we provide. Although residential programs are often considered harsh places for teens in popular culture, the reality is that they are licensed centers where a troubled teen can get access to a whole host of specialists under one umbrella, while learning about themselves and building bonds with each other.

At Eagle Ranch Academy, we have all licensed professionals available on hand to help teens troubled by many different types of problems, such as clinical psychologists, behavioral psychologists, medical doctors, psychiatrists, nurses and even therapists who are ‘embedded’ in the small 12 person classes students are grouped in. Our menu is developed by a certified nutritionist and is cooked daily in compliance with the food and nutrition guidelines of the state of Utah. Our work and fitness programs are run by a fitness trainer, and diet and/or weight control programs are individually tailored to your child’s needs.

In addition to hard work and the expert care of medical professionals, we employ a range of programs unique to Eagle Ranch Academy so that we can reach different kinds of troubled teens. These include our Value Based Program, Emotional Growth Seminars, Life Coaching Skills Program, Graduation Workshops, and After Care Program. Our residential program has been thoroughly researched and backed by groups like Answers for Parents (AFP).

• Our Value based program teaches teens that rewards are earned, helping them with their follow through, their anger responses, and to cultivate positive ways of attaining what they want.
• Our Emotional Growth Seminars are intended to provide help to students and parents, so they can learn about how to deal with the root situation that is making the teen act out and how to cope emotionally with each other during conflicts. It also promotes self-introspection in the teen.
• Our Graduation Workshops provide a goal for teens to work towards, as well as milestones to help guide them throughout the process, as well as sense of accomplishment.
• Our Life Coaching Skills Program teaches teens real life skills to help them cope with the challenges they will face as adults, and helps them to feel secure about their abilities to overcome them later on.
• Our After Care Program is a long term support resource where students (and parents) who have graduated can come for continued help. Alumni also have the option of serving in this program, so they never have to lose the bonds they created at Eagle ranch Academy.

Lastly, remember that we help gifted troubled teens who are performing beneath their abilities; so that means our academic program is of the highest quality. It is enhanced not only with qualified instructors, but with the expertise of educational psychologists.

Speak to one of our admission counselors to find the right program within Eagle Ranch Academy and see if we have one of our limited 48 spaces available.  We will provide you with help in terms of tuition and in dealing with your medical insurance company. After this, our medical staff will begin with a comprehensive evaluation of your child’s needs to design an individual approach for them, because here at Eagle Ranch Academy, we work with all different kinds of troubled teens.

Eagle Ranch Academy Offer Support for Kids with ADHD and ADD

Eagle Ranch Academy is a residential treatment facility licensed by the state of Utah to treat kids 11-17 years old with clinical diagnoses such as ADHD and ADD. We have clinical psychologists on staff to help both with the initial evaluation of your child when they come on board, and to provide ongoing care for them in a way specific to the needs of teens who have ADHD and ADD. Our intensive program also has a psychiatrist on staff to make it easy to manage and assess their medications, as well as a medical doctor who is always on call and makes regular scheduled visits.

Since we are actually a working ranch, we utilize hard work to help any teen with a diagnosis of ADHD and/or ADD stay focused, by providing specific tasks and milestones for them to complete in a regular day (in addition to counseling, nutrition and fitness regimens). Since both of these medical conditions negatively affect school performance and personal relationships, we have various methodical approaches, some medical, some academic, and some unique to our program, to help students how to work around their diagnoses as much as they can.

ADHD is a common clinical diagnosis in today’s youth, but often, especially in the early stages, families can misinterpret the symptoms, leading to punishment or constant conflict within the home. Common symptoms include:

• The inability to focus or pay attention, leading the child to make careless mistakes in school. This has a negative impact on their overall academic record. Eagle Ranch Academy provides support in the form of academic programs developed with the help of educational psychologists, who lend their expertise to make our highly rated academic program mindful of the specific needs of ADHD and ADD students.
• Difficulty in sustaining tasks, following directions, or finishing duties – even those related to entertainment. Eagle Ranch academy plans a productive, rigorous day for teens involving work on the ranch and in the community. We have a Value Based Program where rewards are earned, so any reward a teen wants will have to be preceded with a completed task
• Does not listen when spoken to, is often forgetful and frequently loses personal items. They may also be fidgety, have difficulty waiting their turn, or otherwise always be (physically) moving. At Eagle Ranch Academy, our clinical team is constantly assessing its Behavior Modification Program to ensure that changes in behavior will be long term, instead of simply returning once they go home.

We understand that these symptoms cause a lot of tension in the home and can make parenting difficult. But more importantly, these affect the potential of your child—regardless of the level of their natural academic, artistic or athletic talents. Instead of only providing medication, Eagle Ranch Academy provides support for kids with ADHD and ADD in a myriad of ways.  Contact one of our admission counselors to see what help options are available to help you get your teen back on track.