Learning to Play Basketball Helps Prepare Boys for Success in Life
Learning to Play Basketball Helps Prepare Boys for Success in Life Cole Archuleta has worked at Discovery Ranch for almost three years. For most of that time, he has helped with coaching sports. Cole has a lot of experience with sports. Outside the ranch, Cole coaches a high school football team, a little league football…
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Wrestling with Challenges
Wrestling with Challenges As a school for troubled youths, most of the students have already confronted their share of critics before they walk through the doors of Discovery Ranch (DRB). Many of our students’ worst critics are themselves. Their past experiences and failures make them hesitant to try difficult or new things. That defeatist…
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) While not every troubled teen has a troubled history, traumatic events that happened during childhood do affect a child’s developing brain and contribute to the type of teen that the child will become. Because Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) significantly affect the way that people grow and develop, exposure to ACE can…
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Moving from Trauma to Healing with EMDR
Dorothy Ah Quin always knew that she wanted to help people. She began her career as a high school teacher, where she taught history and special education. While still teaching, Dorothy earned a Masters of Art in Educational Counseling, and shortly after her Clinical Mental Health License. She continued to teach for several years after…
Read MoreMental Health Disorder Help
Mental Health Disorder Help By Maia Christopherson When someone becomes sick, they see their doctor in order to understand what is wrong with their body and how to get better. If they don’t take care of their body, their sickness can become worse and cause serious problems. We want our bodies to be healthy…
Read MoreChallenging Negative Self-Talk
4 Strategies for Challenging Negative Self-Talk By Trenna Ahlstrom You are worthless. No one likes you. You can’t do it. You shouldn’t even try. Comments that you would not tolerate hearing from other people might be a regular part of the way that you think about yourself. Parents of struggling teens may be…
Read MoreLove Yourself First?
Love Yourself First? by Trenna Ahlstrom “Before you can love others, you have to first love yourself.” It’s common advice. You can hear it in TED Talks. You can read it on motivational posters. Maybe you have even heard it coming out of the mouths of well-meaning friends. But is it true? Should you love…
Read MoreThe Path Less Traveled
The Path Less Traveled It was a hazy January day with the moon just coming up over the mountains. (I get a little confused because mid-afternoon in the winter time can also be called dusk.) I had just spent the day at Discovery Ranch with the clinicians. Now, you may be saying to yourself; “I…
Read MoreBest Way to Help Troubled Teen Change
“If somebody had told me two years ago we’d be in this situation, I never would have believed it. To have come back so far is truly remarkable.” This family agreed to share the story of their troubled teen if we would agree not to disclose the family’s identity. Their son, B., struggled with grief,…
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