Psycho-Educational Services for Teens & Young Adults
Residential treatment is a time that brings about an abundance of questions, for both teens and their families. While teens have the challenge of dealing with so many different symptoms, they also often suffer from confusion and stress around not knowing or understanding what’s happening. It’s common for the confusion and questions surrounding this time to cause significant worry to teens and their families, as they try to navigate this new territory. In order to help alleviate this stress and provide teens and their families with knowledge about the nature of different Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders, we provide Teen Psycho-Educational Services as one optional resource included in our treatment plans.
We believe one integral aspect of successful adolescent treatment is the clear, and honest, provision of information to both teens and their families. Teen Psycho-Educational Services are designed to share useful information that is applicable to the lives of teens. With relation to teens with Mental Health Disorders, these services help to provide valuable information on a number of different aspects of the disorder. With relation to Substance Abuse, our psycho-educational component is not designed to scare teens into making changes in their behaviors, but to equip teens with a clear and thorough understanding of the effects and consequences of their substance abuse. While we don’t believe in scaring teens into making better choices, we do believe that, given the proper facts and information about what the disease of addiction is, how is begins, how is develops, how it affects individuals biologically, psychologically and emotionally, and how to break free from its grip, adolescents begin to see the advantages of making changes in their lives. This internal motivation is a key to achieving and maintaining sobriety. Some of the educational session topics include: Teen Relapse Prevention, Medical Aspects of Addiction and Recovery, Family Dynamics and Education, and Emotional Management.
Generally speaking, our Teen Psycho-Educational Services are a resource for teens and families to learn about the clinical nature of, descriptions of, and symptoms connected with, particular Teen Mental Health and/or Substance Abuse struggles that they’re facing. While within therapeutic sessions, teens and families address the nature of their symptoms in a more individualistic and specific way, these services serve to educate teens and families about particular disorders. What we find is that, especially when teens have been recently diagnosed, they can feel overwhelmed with questions and fears about what the diagnosis means, what to expect, and what options they have. Psycho-Educational Services are a resource designed to help alleviate any additional or unnecessary stress teens and families are experiencing, due to their lack of knowledge about a certain disorder.
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Lucy Nguyen is the Executive Director at Paradigm Treatment, overseeing all clinical treatment programs across the organization’s southwestern region. Her extensive experience includes working with young adults in private practice, serving as a therapist for children and teens with emotional and behavioral needs, and acting as a behavior interventionist for teens with developmental disorders. Lucy integrates cognitive-behavioral approaches with mindfulness and compassion in her work, and she is also EMDR-trained. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine.
