Residential Trauma Treatment Program For Teens

Your worst nightmare as a parent is seeing your child suffer while you watch helplessly on the sidelines. You don’t understand why they’re suffering or what you can do to make the pain go away.

But as their parent, you are actually in the best position to help your child recover. All it takes is getting your child help at a treatment center designed to handle teen trauma.

Red Mountain Colorado is an inpatient trauma and PTSD treatment center for teens that is built upon emotional safety, competence, compassion and consistency. The mission of our trauma treatment center is to help your child recover from trauma and grow into a healthy, stable adult.

What is Teen Trauma and PTSD?

Did you know that over 60 percent of teenagers aged 14 to 17 have experienced at least one traumatic event in their life? A traumatic event is defined as a distressing experience that has a long-term and lasting effect on an individual’s physical and emotional well-being.

These distressing events could be as extreme as sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical assault, or a life-threatening illness/injury. Or, trauma could occur as a result of neglect, bullying, grief, witnessing disturbing events, and other chronic adverse childhood experiences.

If not treated properly, teens oftentimes blame themselves for what happened, even if it wasn’t their fault. Trauma can also stay with them through the rest of their lives and manifest as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

PTSD is a psychiatric disorder caused by trauma. Teens with PTSD are oftentimes “triggered” by people or environments that recall the initial traumatic incident. This can lead to flashbacks, nightmares, panic attacks, disturbing thoughts and feelings, and depression.

Our treatment center’s goal is to help your teen recover from their PTSD and work through the trauma they’ve faced so that it doesn’t stunt their growth and stay with them through the rest of their lives.

The Red Mountain Colorado Approach

Red Mountain Colorado is a trauma-informed program. This means that we take a holistic approach to working with teens whose lives have been upended by any form of trauma, taking into account physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of treatment.

During your teen’s treatment, they will work with a skilled therapist in a safe environment to address what they’ve gone through and heal from it. We tailor your teen’s treatment to their specific needs and the type of trauma they’re struggling with, leveraging different therapy modalities like CBT, DBT, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and other mindfulness-based techniques.

Our teen trauma program also incorporates experiential and adventure therapy. We know that every teen responds differently to treatment programs. For example, martial arts may help one teen eliminate the fear of future abuse, while meditation and mindfulness may help another teen leave the trauma in the past where it belongs. Your teen will participate in different types of activities and experiences in order to regain self-esteem and confidence and improve their well-being.

Outcomes of Teen Trauma Treatment at Red Mountain Colorado

When your teen comes to Red Mountain Colorado for trauma treatment, they’ll experience recovery that can transform their life forever. Your teen can achieve the following outcomes through our treatment program:

Some key elements of our approach are:

• Improved decision-making
• A calmer and more confident disposition
• Interest in new passions to help them feel fulfilled
• Increased self-esteem and empathy towards others
• Greater self-awareness of their thoughts, feelings and actions
• A healthier family system

Does My Teen Need Trauma Treatment?

Symptoms of Teen Trauma

Trauma and PTSD aren’t always easy to catch unless you know what you’re looking for. If your teen exhibits some or all of the following symptoms, they may need help recovering from a traumatic incident or experience:

• Flashbacks and/or night terrors: Trauma and PTSD can lead to terrifying flashbacks and nightmares that leave your teen scared and visibly shaken.
• Angry outbursts: It’s common for teens struggling with PTSD to have extreme mood swings and show signs of aggression.
• Fear and anxiety: Does your teen get scared about going to certain places or interacting with specific people? These may be triggers that are linked to your teen’s PTSD.
• Depression: If your teen goes through ongoing bouts of grief or depression, it may be due to whatever trauma they experienced.

How Trauma Affects the Teen Brain

Trauma is especially hard on teenagers because the teen brain is still in a constant state of growth. PTSD can affect the brain’s structure and influence your teen’s emotions and behaviors.

Since the brain develops from back to front, the pre-frontal cortex at the front of the brain develops last. This is the part of the brain that controls reasoning and impulses. If your teen is suffering from trauma and PTSD, they may exhibit impulsive and destructive behaviors because their pre-frontal cortex isn’t developed enough to cope with the trauma and make smarter decisions.

Teens are also dealing with floods of hormones rushing in and out of their brains as they continue to mature. These hormone fluctuations can also heighten the stress your teen is already feeling and trigger mood swings and aggressive behaviors.

Your Teen Can Thrive Again at Red Mountain Colorado

At Red Mountain Colorado, we want your teen to take back their own power and begin living a whole and complete life without fear again. We are determined to do this through our trauma treatment program

If you’re ready to get your teen the trauma treatment they need, contact our team today.