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Counting Our Blessings

Published: Friday, November 23, 2012 There's been a lot of talk about gratitude throughout this Thanksgiving week, which brings up the idea of gratitude lists. One of our students who struggles with depression was recently encouraged to keep a gratitude list as a way of overcoming the negativity and helplessness she sometimes feels. Recording even the smallest events and observations helps.

Tough Love

Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 The Living Skills classes at FFS (and in fact our entire therapeutic environment) are intended to teach students how to better manage their lives. For some, that includes how to stop managing the lives of others, including those they care about most. One girl here has a mother who struggles with alcohol and has promised repeatedly to stop drinking. When

One Assignment at a Time

Published: Friday, November 16, 2012 Self-esteem is something most troubled teens have a hard time achieving because it usually demands that they do something they don't want to do, or don't think they can do. A 17-year-old student here who struggles with schoolwork also struggles with self-esteem. He wastes a lot of time daydreaming about a future that isn't going to happen unless he stops

When There's No Saying No

Published: Monday, November 12, 2012 Parents often tell us that their troubled teen had been a kind, respectful and fun-loving child who got into drinking or drugs after falling in with the wrong crowd. Peer pressure, for better or worse, is part of adolescence, but many troubled teens are inveterate people-pleasers who have a particularly hard time just saying no to their friends. For a

Feeling Good About Being Good

Published: Thursday, November 8, 2012 Many students here struggle with feelings of entitlement, resenting restrictions of all kinds. One boy in particular has discovered things go well when he follows the program, "stays in the day" and does the next right thing. But as he told his friends after he became sullen and argumentative during a visit with his parents, "I'm not sure I like being a