Help for Troubled Teen Girls
Sunrise works with adolescent girls, ages 13 - 17, who are smart, curious, and capable, but have struggled with deep-rooted emotional issues that have kept them from reaching their potential. Many have experienced trauma, chemical dependency, or mental illness. Some are depressed or anxious, suffer from low self-esteem, or are troubled by eating disorders. Despite having difficult issues that require healing and management, Sunrise students possess the internal resources for future success and independence. Sunrise provides a program that begins with intensive clinical treatment and ends with a community-based transition program to help students translate new skills and healing to the real world.
Our clinical team has the sophistication to work with complex therapeutic cases along with the compassion and vision to focus on potential over pathology. As a result, our program is strengths based, focusing on each student's unique, but often buried, constellation of gifts, talents, and passions. By helping students discover and trust their internal resources, we equip them, and their families, for a successful return home. Our vision for every Sunrise girl is to equip her for a life of emotional health, personal growth, and independence.
Clinical Profile
Sunrise students have great potential that has been derailed by emotional and or behavioral struggles. Our team is particularly effective at treating girls with one or more of the following issues and diagnoses (this is a partial list):
- Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
- Depression
- Adoption and Attachment Issues
- Family Discord
- Addictions
- Manipulation
- Bereavement
- Bi-polar Disorder
- Personality Disorders
- Family Adjustment Difficulties
- Post-Traumatic Stress and Anxiety Disorders
- Habitual Lying
- Relationship Problems
- Feelings of Hopelessness
- Substance Abuse
- School Avoidance
- Learning Disabilities
- Peer-Relation Problems
- Low Motivation
- Abuse and/or Neglect
- Low Self-Esteem
Exclusionary Criteria
To maintain a safe and effective treatment/transition environment, Sunrise cannot accept students with the following issues:
- Medically Unstable
- Physically Violent Histories
- Pregnancy
- Sexual-Abuse Perpetrator
- Psychotic Disorders
- Parents who are unwilling to participate
Important Topics
Relationship: The Key To Treating Self-Harm
Part 2 of 3 - The first step toward helping someone who can't seem to stop harming herself is to engage in a relationship of safety, respect, compassion, and trust.
Self-Harm: Why Teens Do It
Part 1 of 3 - Self-Harm is an increasingly pervasive symptom of emotional distress among adolescent girls.
Equine Therapy
With the help of a human equine therapist, human-horse interactions become powerful metaphors for human relationships and situations.
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