Articles For Parents

Weekly therapy that hasn't helped, unsafe nights, and a household built around symptoms are the signs that point toward residential care.

You'll see how school fits into a live-in stay for a 12 to 17 year old, and which credit questions to put to admissions before you choose a program.

Who residential care fits for ages 12 to 17, what daily life in the house looks like, how family and school work, and what to have ready for admissions.

Safety, school, and sleep are the three things that usually separate a live-in program from outpatient or virtual IOP.

Teen residential stays are commonly grouped into 30, 60, and 90 day episodes, and the work in the house shifts as each stage passes.

Hillside Horizon houses two teens per bedroom in gender-specific neighborhood homes, and the same clinical team stays with your family from the first call through discharge.

Your teen's week in residential care runs on a schedule, and yours suddenly runs on nothing.

Psychiatric hospital vs residential treatment for teens: one stabilizes a crisis in days, the other treats what caused it over months. How to tell them apart and what to ask.

Closed doors and shorter answers are normal at 14.

A coach needs a return window and a point of contact.

A teen mental health safety plan is a one-page document a clinician writes with your teen during a stable moment.

A plain way to tell grandparents and other relatives that your teen is entering residential treatment, including who needs to hear it first, a four-sentence script for.