Provo Canyon School is an intensive psychiatric treatment facility for children and adolescents ages 8 to 18 in Utah. It evaluates each child to determine their specific therapeutic needs and develops an individualized treatment plan. The document discusses positive parenting styles that involve democratic decision making between parents and children, in contrast to authoritarian or permissive styles that are less effective and can increase risks for children.

1. By Provo Canyon School

2. Introduction
 An intensive psychiatric treatment facility, Provo Canyon
School has programs for children and adolescents between
the ages of 8 and 18. Licensed by the state of Utah, Provo
Canyon School evaluates each child to determine his or her
therapeutic needs and develop a personalized treatment
plan. Parents can help their children by assessing parenting
styles and choosing empowering communications
approaches.
When parents practice a positive and democratic parenting
style, children are able to make some choices, but they still
have limits. In this environment, parents and children work
together to determine rules and to create solutions when
problems arise.

3. Parenting Styles
 By contrast, authoritarian parents make all the rules
and decide on punishments when children violate
rules. Children raised in authoritarian environments
may rebel, become people-pleasers, or display low self-
confidence.
The final core parenting style, permissiveness, creates
a no-rules environment where children have freedom
to do what they wish. Although unlimited freedom
seems appealing to youth, children who grow up in
permissive settings are at high risk of addiction or
other negative social behaviors.