Cell Phone Addiction Help For Teens From Tennessee

Tennessee Teens Can Find Success at Our Residential Program for Troubled Young Adults

Tennessee teens often struggle with internet gaming disorder, and we can help at our Florida campus.  Video game addiction can lead to depression, being bullied, and having a hard time making friends. Our residential program for young adults can catch campers back up on social skills they may have missed out on due to excessive gaming.

Finding success also means building motivation to pursue meaningful life pursuits.  Building motivation is fun! We use systematic self-monitoring techniques to guide campers to better habits that also build motivation.  Systematic self-monitoring is just a fancy term for carefully planning your daily behaviors, in addition to setting up support plans to ensure planned behaviors are executed. 

Campers set themselves up for college success or life beyond high school by building the life skills they need to be successful on their own.

Video Game Addiction Residential Program for Troubled Young Adults

At Camp Pocono Trails, we support individual therapy.  We can work in tandem with therapists back home in Tennessee to ensure smooth continuity of care.  We also recommend our families engage in family therapy sessions while your child is in attendance.  This is done during workshop weekends.

However, sometimes a teen just needs a higher level of help than outpatient therapy can provide.  This is why residential programs for young adults such as Camp Pocono Trails exist. For outpatient therapy to be effective, the student needs to engage with the therapist.  For example, most behavioral therapists have the student journal or track behaviors in order to change behaviors.

If a student is unwilling to do these most basic components of help, parents should look at going up to the next level of intervention.  This can be a help center like Camp Pocono Trails which specializes in video game addiction help.

Military boarding schools or short-term options like camps for video game addiction help should be avoided.  Change takes time, and a punitive approach can result in a child pushing back against authority.

Looking for Residential Programs for Troubled Young Adults in Tennessee?

Finding the right Residential Programs for Troubled Young Adults is uncharted territory for most parents.  Parents today are tasked with raising the very first generation of teenagers immersed in a world of technology.  Screens are everywhere- teens bring internet-connected smartphones to school and often have access to games on the bus, in class, in the lunchroom, and back home again until mom or dad return from work.  For most families, gaming addiction is an issue that requires high levels of intervention. 

Our program is located in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania and serves teens from Tennessee, in addition to teens from across the US.  While the length of help varies, we do not believe that substantial change can be achieved in a few short weeks.  Treatment from Camp Pocono Trails will address all of these issues and more. Our licensed clinical staff attend regular team meetings with our academic staff, milieu staff, and recreation staff.  We are a summer camp fully focused on video game and screen overuse issues. If your teen from Tennessee has any of the above symptoms, please reach out to us today.

It™s much easier to develop new habits if the environment is conducive to change.  At our Residential Programs for Troubled Young Adults, we start out by providing a technology-free environment and slowly reintroduce campers to smartphones and the internet.  We work on social skills, anger management, and developing structure before the technology is reintroduced.

We also provide a family component to set the child up for success.  Parents participate in family therapy sessions with your child’s assigned counselor while at Camp Pocono Trails.  We also teach parents how to best support their children at home.

We help Tennessee families prepare their home for the student’s transition back.  Ensuring your child’s success back at home and for life after their teen years is our top priority.

 

Who does Camp Pocono Trails help?

Camp Pocono Trails helps teens struggling with issues similar to those below:
– Addictive Behaviors
– Family Conflict
– Depression
– Technology Addiction
– Impulse Control
– Autism Spectrum
– Social Issues
– School Refusal
– Video game addiction
– Social Anxiety Disorder
– Low Self Esteem
– ADHD
– Anxiety
– Poor Communication Skills
– Trauma
– Social isolation

Resources

Residential Program for Troubled Young Adults Resource: Smartphone and Tablet Resources

Kids are becoming increasingly tech-savvy these days.  It™s hard for us as parents to keep up. At our residential program for young adults we’ve heard it all – campers bypassing routers, logging on to friend™s routers next door, creating proxies, you name it and we’ve heard it!

Here are some resources specifically for smartphones and tablets.  These devices are especially problematic for parents because they are portable and you can™t just block them through your router if your child is connecting at school or a friend™s house:

Android Devices: https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/android-parental-controls-3461359/


Apple Products: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304


Google Play Store: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1075738?hl=en

 

Residential Program for Troubled Young Adults Resource: Steam Setup

Many gamers that come to our residential program for young adults use a Steam account to manage their game settings.  Here is a comprehensive guide for parents to manage your child’s Steam account.

We encourage you to create a Steam account with your child. If there are features of Steam that you would like to exclude from the experience, you can restrict access using Family View. You may also choose to enable Family View on your own Steam account if you would rather they share your Steam Account.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5149-EOPC-9918


To enable Family View:

  • Log into the Steam account your child will use.
  • Click the Steam menu in the top menu bar.
  • Open the Settings option.
  • Go to the “Family” tab on the left side of the window that opens.
  • Click œFamily View to start the Family View wizard.
  • Step through the wizard to select the content and features you™d like to be accessible while in PIN-protected Family View.
  • Select and confirm your new PIN.

With any gaming company, we recommend you check game ratings and actually have your child demonstrate the game before allowing any unsupervised play.  You can also go on Youtube to watch a game œwalk through to see how violence and adult themes are portrayed.

Camp Pocono Trails helps families from Tennessee

Camp Pocono Trails helps Tennessee families from cities and towns like Belle Meade Forest Hills Oak Hill Brentwood Lookout Mountain Arrington Franklin College Grove Walden Nolensville