Our counseling services for teens have been shown to:
- Improve the quality of the parent-teen relationship
- Improve academic performance, school attendance, and respect for school personnel
- Decrease “rebelliousness” associated with the adolescent years
- Improve a teen’s ability to say “No” to peer pressure
- Decrease risky behaviors, such as sexual acting out, delinquent acts, and alcohol and drug use
- Improve healthy coping skills and decrease unhealthy coping (e.g., cutting, drug abuse, alcohol abuse)
- Improve and/or increase a teens self-esteem, self confidence, and competence
- Express themselves in healthy, developmentally appropriate ways
- increased personal Responsibility
- increased Honesty with self and others
- increased self- Respect and respect for others
- increased Self Control
- increased patience and Tolerance
- increased cooperation
- increased citizenship and patriotism
- Decrease discipline referrals at school
- Learn effective problem solving skills
- Improve parent child relationship and peaceful home
- effectively treat teen depression
- effectively treat teen anxiety
Presenting Problems:
Stein Counseling professionals work with many adolescent’s presenting problems. The list below is an example and not-exhaustive.
- fear
- anger
- truancy
- threats or acts of suicide
- threats or acts of violence
- promiscuity
- alcohol and drug abuse
- anxiety
- depression
- sibling rivalry
- perfectionism
- trauma
- difficult adjustments
- aggression
- defiance
- attention-deficit disorder
- poor academic performance
- disruptive behavior
- attachment related insecurities
- grief due to death or other loss
- bullying
- bullying-victim
- anger
- low self-esteem
- other mental health issues