Sabotage

A fifteen-year-old troubled teen girl has struggled with anger and depression since she was a youngster. Adopted as a toddler, her adoptive parents separated when she was eight, which only added to her struggles. Her relationship with her dad has been especially rocky, but it's something she's been determined to repair. And yet, just days before a much anticipated weekend with him, she was involved in a runaway scheme that not only jeopardized her visit, but set her therapeutic progress back by months. What happened?

Sabotage, she admitted. "Why should I work to get close to my dad when he could easily turn around and leave me again?" she complained.  And yet she believes, as we do, that repairing her relationship with her parents and siblings will bring her happiness and success. She just needs more time, help and guidance to make it happen. The supportive environment of a therapeutic boarding school is giving her that, and more.