The document provides guidance for parents on important factors to consider when choosing a teen treatment center. Parents should ask about the qualifications and experience of the staff, licensing and accreditation, treatment approaches, services provided, costs, safety, and outcomes. It's important that the center addresses co-occurring disorders, provides family support and aftercare, and offers individualized treatment in a supportive environment to help teens successfully recover.

1. Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center

2. Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Questions parents should think about before selecting a teen rehab

3. Questions parents should think about before selecting a teen rehab
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Are there professional staff on-site on a full-time basis?
Is the facility licensed by the state governing body that oversees
addiction treatment programs?
Can the facility provide information about the recovery rates of its
alumni?
Does the program include individual therapy?
Ask the teen rehab why they believe their program is the best fit for your
teen?
How does your program compare to other options available?
What experience and credentials do the staff on the treatment team
have?
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center

4. More Questions
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Do you have a dual diagnosis program?
How are family members involved in the treatment?
How are family members involved in discharge decisions?
How much does treatment cost?
Do you have a school?
Do you have activities for the teens?
Is it safe?
What is the relapse rate?
Do you have an aftercare program?
Do you perform mental health diagnosis?
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center

5. Is the Rehab asking you the right questions?
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Your teen’s drug use
Their interactions with family, friends, teachers
Their interests outside of school i.e. extracurricular activities
Their interest in school
The quality of their family relationships
Their academic performance
Legal issues
A drug and alcohol addiction treatment center that is
preparing to help your teen will want as much
information as possible about such as:
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center

6. Is the Rehab asking you the right questions?
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Suffer from mood disorders like depression, bi-polar disorder, or self harm
Take Prescribed medications?
Have unusual sleep patterns
A drug and alcohol addiction treatment center that is
preparing to help your teen will want as much
information as possible about such as does your teen?
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center

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Treatment Center
There are an abundance of free informational and governmental web sites that a
parent can surf to learn about teens and drug and alcohol abuse as well as choosing
an addiction treatment center. Partnership for Drug Free Kids ,Samhsa, and
www.teenmarijuanaaddiction.com are three highly informational sites.
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Have you done your homework?
Partnership for Drug Free Kids is an excellent place to
start your Internet research

8. Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
For teens, alcohol and drug abuse often go hand-in-hand with mood
disorders like anxiety, depression, and cutting.
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Does the program specialize in Dual Diagnosis or Coexisting Disorders?
With teens, the incidence of mental illness and substance abuse is even higher than
the adult population. Teens who undergo treatment for addiction should be
thoroughly evaluated to determine whether their substance abuse stems from a
co-occurring disorder.
Unless adolescents with co-occurring disorders receive treatment for both
their addiction and their mental behavioral issues, they are prone to have a
relapse of their mood disorder, a return to their addiction abuse, or both.

9. Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Does the program offer counseling and education for family members?
A strong teen addiction treatment center supports the family systems
approach to helping client(s) find solutions to problems or issues. This
approach is very effective when working with teen behavioral problems,
teen drug abuse, and the chaos occurring within the family.

10. Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Does the program schedule include classroom time to help teen students keep up
with their education?
Academic programs provide teens with the opportunity to continue their high school
education without losing time or credits. They will transfer a student’s high school
transcripts from the school of origin and work with the student to match the academic
courses and elective courses. Some will also work with the family and the teen to
receive assignments from their school.

11. Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
Parent’s Guide to Choosing a Teen
Treatment Center
What is the length of stay of the program?
Most teens suffering from drug and alcohol addiction need to get a firm foundation in
recovery and may require 60-90 days of residential treatment as well as a solid aftercare
plan that continues post-treatment support for the first year of recovery. Teens are
broken when they enter treatment and fragile when they leave residential care. They need
a supportive plan to keep them on the path to recovery.
The research is very clear that longer term care is superior to shorter term care. The idea
that quality treatment can be completed in 28-30 days has no basis in science. In fact,
the 28 day treatment model was developed because that is what insurance would pay for
it, not because it works.

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Treatment Center
Are recreational activities included in the program?
Recreation and physical activity is a necessary activity for teens. It encourages
team work and reinforces skills the teens are discussing in therapy. A strong
teen rehab provides recreation and physical activity on a daily basis.

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Treatment Center
Will the facility continue to provide support for my teen in order to help him keep up
with his recovery goals?
A teen rehab is only as strong as its robust aftercare program

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Treatment Center
Is the program flexible?
Adolescents can change quickly. Programs need to offer responsive, individualized
programming that changes to meet the needs of each teen as his or her needs
change.

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Treatment Center
Does the program encourage teamwork and participation?
You can force an adolescent to stay in treatment, but you can’t compel genuine
participation. Programs that encourage teen participation in treatment planning
and goal setting have a better chance of motivating lasting behavioral change.

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Treatment Center
Does the teen addiction treatment center have a pool?
If you are surfing the web looking for a teen rehab and you come across a teen treatment center’s web
site featuring a gorgeous pool like the one above – find another rehab. If a rehab relies on superficial
features like a swimming pool then they are probably concentrating their efforts on marketing rather
then focusing on what’s most important – getting your teen better.

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Treatment Center
Should I choose a rehab near my home or far away?
It is well worth the extra dollars to send your teen to an out-of-state teen rehab.
By taking your teen away from the environment in which he or she developed the
drug or alcohol addiction, can greatly assist in the recovery process.

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Treatment Center
Does the teen treatment center have a strong track record?
You want to select a teen rehab with a strong reputation that shows up on Google and has
appeared frequently in the media as industry experts in their profession.

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Treatment Center
Can the treatment center perform Interventions?
In some instances parents do not have the capabilities of sending their teen to a rehab
due to a myriad of reasons including fear of their son or daughter. A teen treatment
center with a professional interventionist can allow the parents to receive the assistance
required to help their teen get better by performing an intervention and then bringing the
child over to the treatment facility.

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Treatment Center
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