Residential Treatment Centers for troubled teens in California provide treatment for an array of different issues. From Conduct Disorder, Depression, Bi-polar Disorder, ADHD and ADD, to educational issues, some personality disorders, phase of life issues, drug and alcohol abuse, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and combinations of these.
Some of these Residential Treatment Centers work from a behavior modification stance and some are relationally oriented. And some utilize a community or positive peer culture model. Most of these RTC Programs are level-focused in their treatment approach. In order to manage student behavior they frequently put systems of rewards in place.
At Sunset Bay Academy we work with troubled teens to overcome destructive behaviors by learning to use a set of skills in a real world setting. Troubled boys and girls eventually will have to enter the real world. Our program prepares them to do so. They cannot escape the hardship of the real world but they can be armed with the proper tools and mechanism to deal with many challenges that will presented to them in the future.
The students learn to master the skills found in the list below.
- How to identify high risk situations related to drugs and how to avoid them.
- Use and perfect tools to resolve in an assertive manner conflictive
- Use of skills in compromising situations that in the past led them to drug consumption.
- How to control cravings
- How to use coping abilities that will ensure better chances of maintaining sobriety.
- How to manage inner impulses and channel them into healthy behavior and activities.
- How to resist peer pressure
At Sunset Bay Academy we are here to serve you and your family. Please call one of Placement Specialists at 1 (800) 724-2147 for further assistance in an out of home placement for your struggling son or daughter.
Some of the cities in California that Sunset Bay Academy has helped troubled teens
San Diego County: La Jolla, Poway, La Mesa, Carlsbad, Santee, Escondido, San Marcos, Encinitas, Ramona, Coronado, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Oceanside, Lemon Grove Orange County: Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Brea, Bel Air, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Cypress, Dana Point, Fountain Valley, Fullerton,Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Mission Viejo, Holmby Hills, Laguna Beach, Fountain Valley
