juvenile
Teenage Drug Addiction – Know the Warning Signs and Symptoms
Today more young people are becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol than ever before. There is no reason to believe it can’t happen to your child, or that they are too smart to become addicted. The truth is, adolescents from all walks of life are exposed and at risk.
You have taught your children to say no to drugs. They have completed the school programs, and they occasionally wear the t-shirt that says they think doing drugs is dumb. The reality is that parents who believe their children are exempt from drug addiction are often the ones whose children actually suffer from undetected drug addiction.
What You Don’t Know About Violent Youth Can Hurt You and Your Students
School has only been in session a short time, and our teacher help area is being inundated with requests for aid for just a single problem area. Frankly, we are very concerned to be getting so many requests for help with students who are verbally abusing, defying or hitting their teacher. Yes, that sentence included the phrase “hitting their teacher.”
Even though you may not want to hear this, if you don’t have basic, mental health-based, violence prevention training, you are at risk of facing a serious violent act, potentially, even something like the recent school shootings. Conventional interventions always fail with the most out-of-control students. If you have ever found that “nothing works” to control some students, that is because standard methods are never effective tools to manage this population.
A Counselor Explains What to Do About Uncontrollable, Disrespectful, Misbehaved and Defiant Youth
If you are a teacher who finds that “nothing works”
to manage some students, this article may help. It’s
way past time for you to learn about ODD, Oppositional
Defiant Disorder.
In college, you probably got very little training
on basic mental health, but if you’ve been teaching
for more than five minutes, you know that little bit
of training wasn’t enough. Here’s just a quick
peek at what they should have taught you in college
about basic juvenile mental health. Be aware however
that this article gives you just 1% of what you will
need to know in your classroom in order to maintain
control and best assist each challenged student.
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act – Giving Youth a Second Chance
What is the underlying rationale of state juvenile justice systems? Is it to punish youths who commit crimes or to rehabilitate youths to give them a second chance? Although this perpetual debate plays out similarly for incarcerated adults, what is unique to the juvenile detention discussion is the people who are most affected: youths. Yes, they are supposed to be corrected when they do something wrong but, isn’t it also important to invest in them and give them the opportunity to mature and grow into adulthood? When considering factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency, such as mental health and substance use problems, negative environmental influences, or complicated family situations, the role of state juvenile justice systems and community providers becomes clear – to prevent juvenile delinquency whenever possible and to rehabilitate youths who are in the system to give them the best chance to succeed.
Studies have indicated that 70 percent or more of youths who are securely detained in a juvenile justice facility have a mental health or related disorder; in contrast, approximately 20 percent of the general youth population have such a disorder. According to a public opinion poll focusing on juvenile delinquency and mental illness, a majority of people polled viewed alternatives to incarceration – such as community mental health treatment, mentoring, and vocational training – as effective ways to rehabilitate youths. In addition, 8 out of 10 polled strongly favored taking away some of the money states spend on incarcerating youth offenders and using that funding to pay for counseling, education, and job training.
