Posts Tagged ‘residential treatment center’
Making a Difference for Troubled Teens
As I have worked with Oxbow over the last six years, I always felt like we were making a difference. But I always wondered how much of a difference we were making with our boys. I wanted to be able to measure the difference between a boy when he first came through our doors, and…
Read MoreNo Student is “Too Dumb” for Learning and Succeeding at Oxbow
When I started working with Chase he let me know up front that he was dumb and wasn’t planning on graduating from high school. He wasn’t being defiant or belligerent……just stating the facts as he saw them. I worked on English and History for a little while with Chase in a group setting and I…
Read MoreMother to Mother
As a mother who works full time, I have to leave my own child with someone every day. I always hope and pray that she is in good hands. That she is being protected and taught the correct things while I am away. That someone is loving her almost as much as I do (which…
Read MorePain, Patience and Progress for Struggling Teens
As therapists at Oxbow, we are here to help students develop insight into their thought, feeling and behavioral patterns. We love this work and are privileged to work with wonderful students and families. As our students change, their families change. And as the families that we work with change, we are influenced for the better. There is…
Read MoreJust Enough Pressure for Troubled Teens to Find Success
Just Enough Pressure for Troubled Teens to Find Success. I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine the other day, when he shared with me a story about something he had witnessed at one of our sister programs. It was a story that I instantly related to my own life as well as…
Read MoreMountain Lions, Struggling Teens, and New Perspectives
Oxbow’s Residential Director, Bill Pollock, shared this essay by MS, one of our students. “This is the reason that we take the kids out and let them experience what we do,” Bill says. “It is always fun to watch them work through experiences and accomplish things they didn’t know they could.” The Journey Early…
Read MoreAcademic Success for Struggling Teens
If your son is struggling with school at Oxbow we help with Academic Success for Struggling Teens. Countless young men have graduated from high school at Oxbow Academy since I joined the program in 2008. Many of the other boys finished therapy at Oxbow and returned home to graduate with their classmates. While our first priority is…
Read MoreParents Dreams for Troubled Teen Become Reality
Parents Dreams for Troubled Teen Become Reality. On a recent trip to California I was visiting with the family of a recent Oxbow graduate at his home. While we were talking his parents had a meaningful realization. They were talking about how they were so fearful, anxious, angry, and distraught the day that they brought…
Read MoreThe Static Relationship: No Fairytale for Troubled Teens
A few months ago I was involved in a therapeutic intervention with a 15 yr old young man who was stalled out in his treatment. He had decided to resist all efforts to re-engage the therapeutic process and take personal accountability for the state of his relationship with his parents. It appeared that he was…
Read MoreA Season of Thanksgiving for Parents of Troubled Teen
The holiday season brings about many struggles for parents of Oxbow students. Reality hits home as some parents realize that their sons are not in the place, therapeutically speaking, that would allow them to go home to be with their families over Christmas. This has been a struggle for one of the families with whom…
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