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When Summer School is Not Enough

Aspen Academy helps teens get back on track behaviorally so they can succeed academically. Teens also earn credit to help them catch up for the next school year. Read more about how Aspen helps when Summer School Is Not Enough...

Summer Enrollment in Boarding School Helps Teens Catch up Credits

Call (866) 845-1391 to enroll your teen this summer.

If your teen struggled in school this year, he or she might be unprepared for the next level of courses in the fall. Some teens may even have lost credits. Although summer school might be helpful for motivated teens who want to catch up and have a strong desire to learn the information so they can handle next year’s course materials, there are some teens who simply cannot work themselves out of their downward momentum at school.

Emotional growth and therapeutic boarding schools offer year-round enrollment and a strong counseling component to help such teens get back on track academically. Many of these schools also offer “Accelerated Academics” - meaning the students can earn a larger number of credits over a typical semester period than they could in a traditional school setting. This allows them to “catch up” and get back on track for a traditional graduation date.

Dual Diagnosis Teens: When Drinking and Drugging Is Really Something Else

Assume that you are a little boy. All your life you have tried to fit in with other boys. But you just don’t. You are too anxious and afraid inside. Whenever anyone starts to tease or bully someone, you think it’s aimed at you. Sarcastic laughter, the person who takes the blame – it’s all about you all the time. Your anxiety means you are the scapegoat – the boy who is bullied.

Your anxiety also makes it impossible for you to concentrate in school. Your grades fall, your parents get upset with you – this creates even more anxiety.

Now suppose you find out that if you drink a potion, all your anxious feelings go away. In one moment, you are as calm as all the other kids. Suddenly, you’re Joe Cool.

This scenario often describes the alcoholic child under age 16 years.

When a child suffering from anxiety disorders, severe shyness or social anxiety discovers alcohol, it’s as if he finds magic. Like Alice in Wonderland with the "Eat Me!" mushroom, when he takes a drink, he grows taller and stronger. Suddenly his shyness vanishes and he’s the life of the party. Instantly she can flirt and have fun like all the other kids her age.

Special Needs Summer Camps

Camp Huntington is a special camp for children, teens, and young adults with developmental disorders, Autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
Call Toll-Free: (866) 845-1391 to learn more about Camp Huntington.

Wilderness Programs Help Young Adults Find "The Just Right-Sized Me"

It’s my life. It’s all about me. I want what I want and I want it now. Everyone is paying attention to me, all of the time. Therefore, I have to have the best clothes and the coolest car.

Many young people who enter wilderness therapy programs like the Four Circles bring these attitudes along with them. They come to the program thinking that they are the center of the universe.

"We talk a lot about becoming the "right-sized me," said one therapist who accompanies teens on their wilderness experiences.

Being "right sized" means understanding that while you have an effect on your family, friends and others in your life, no one is watching you all the time. You don’t need constant feedback from everyone. You don’t have to keep track of your mistakes: no one cares that much.

Part of the problem is the teen culture itself.

Learn more about the slow deliberate pace of nature in a wilderness setting and how it helps teens gain a new perspective >>

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