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Is Your Teen at Risk? - Identify Troubled Teens

There are a lot of troubled kids in the world who need care and attention to get their lives back on track. Are you worried that your teenager might be one of these kids? Have recent changes in their behavior or personality made you worry about them and what the future holds for them if they continue down this road?

Sometimes, teens in trouble need more help than their parents, family members, and teachers are equipped to give them. For other kids, it might just be a brief phase that they’re going through that will sort itself out without any outside help. How are you supposed to know which is the case with your child? Of course, we all hope that your parenting skills will be enough to weather any storm, but that isn’t always the case. It doesn’t make you a bad parent if your child needs additional help.

If you’re wondering if your teenager might benefit from one of the intensive troubled teens programs available, we invite you to take the following preliminary quiz. This is not meant to diagnose any specific problems that your kid or kids might be having. Rather, it is meant to make you take a closer look at your teen’s behavior. Love and good parenting tips aren’t always enough to make the permanent changes that are needed.

  1. Does your teen frequently tell lies?
    Yes No
  2. Does your troubled youth become easily agitated with others?
    Yes No
  3. Does your troubled teen often argue about inconsequential events?
    Yes No
  4. Does your teen disregard important house rules?
    Yes No
  5. Does your troubled teen avoid participating in family activities and social events?
    Yes No
  6. Is your troubled teen unable to accept others points of view?
    Yes No
  7. Is your struggling teen unwilling to recognize and accept the impact of his/her negative behavior on family and friends?
    Yes No
  8. Does your troubled teen fail to complete tasks that require effort regardless of the future importance of the task(e.g. school work)?
    Yes No
  9. Does your troubled teen engage in making fun of or picking on others?
    Yes No
  10. Does your troubled teen exhibit hyperactivity at inappropriate times (a symptom of ADHD)?
    Yes No
  11. Does your troubled teen have difficulty focusing/concentrating during tasks (a symptom of ADD/ADHD)?
    Yes No
  12. Has your teen undergone therapy/counseling with little or no results?
    Yes No
  13. Is your troubled teen defiant towards you and/or teachers?
    Yes No
  14. Is it difficult for your teen to open up to and confide in others?
    Yes No
  15. Does your troubled teen use profanity?
    Yes No
  16. Does your teen steal things from you?
    Yes No
  17. Does your troubled teen do harmful things to make others like him/her?
    Yes No
  18. Is your troubled teen failing one or more courses in school?
    Yes No
  19. Does your troubled teen associate with friends who are not positive influences?
    Yes No
  20. Has your troubled teen been involved in physical fights?
    Yes No
  21. Does your troubled teen abuse drugs and/or alcohol?
    Yes No
  22. Does your troubled teen engage in cruelty to animals?
    Yes No
  23. Does your troubled teen engage in self-injurious behaviors and/or threaten to inflict self-harm?
    Yes No
  24. Is your troubled teen sexually active?
    Yes No
  25. Has your teen run away from home?
    Yes No

*Note: Once personal information is submitted your teens score will be automatically tallied below and a counselor will contact you within 24 hours.

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