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Managing Emotionally Intense Interactions for Parents of Teens

For many parents, it can feel as if they are required to do their best parenting in situations where they feel least equipped to exercise the skills they need to make good parenting choices. This article will help you learn techniques for making healthy parenting choices when you are in conflict with your teen and…

Teens Can Change Their Behavior Using Effective Cues

Watching your teen struggle is a unique challenge. Even when your teen is ready to change, it can be challenging to know what you can do to help. One technique that you can use to help your teen is using cues. When your teen is struggling, the situation can seem impossible. One of the most…

What is bullying

Bullying is described as a behavior that: is intended to cause distress or harm, involves an imbalance of power or strength between the aggressor and the target, and generally occurs repeatedly over time. There is a line that is crossed when something goes from teasing to bullying and it’s important to recognize when and if that…

DBT Skills: Improve Your Relationships and Maintain Your Self-Respect

Improve Your Relationships and Maintain Your Self-Respect One of the major components of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is Interpersonal Effectiveness, or improving your relationship with other people. One set of strategies that will allow you to improve your relationship with other people is represented by the acronym GIVE FAST. GIVE Skills are designed to help you maintain healthy relationships. FAST Skills…

DBT Skill: DEAR MAN

DBT Skills: How to Get People to Do What You Want DEAR MAN is an acronym to help you remember a behavioral strategy that can make it more likely that you get what you want from other people. It is not a Jedi mind control trick. It is a strategy to help you assert yourself…

Anger Management For Teens

If You Are the Parent of an Angry Teen, You Are Not Alone For a lot of people, anger is an unpleasant or even frightening emotion. However, even anger has a purpose. Anger can be motivating. It can show us the things that are important to us. It can give us the strength to act…

Running Toward A Better Future

Running Toward a Better Future When Dan Miner was in high school, he ran on the track and cross country team. He was never very good at it, but that didn’t matter to Dan. What mattered was that running gave him a chance to clear his head. Not only that, being on the track team…

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 Boys 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…

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 for Boys (DRB). Many of our students’ worst critics are themselves. Their past experiences and failures make them hesitant to try difficult or new things.…

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…