What Is Elk River Healthy Lifestyles?
Elk River Healthy Lifestyles, one of the programs of The Pinnacle Schools, Inc., is a weight management program for youths, ages twelve to eighteen. The program focuses on positive behaviors and nutrition, at the same time building self-esteem for the troubled teens. A healthy diet, physical activities, and therapies are combined in order for the teens to learn how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to make concrete choices. It is a developmentally sensitive, multi-disciplinary, and medically-based approach designed to deal with the core issues of food addiction, co-dependency, and depression in order to achieve overall positive results.
Health risks of obese teens can include neurological impairments, joint pain, respiratory problems, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure or hypertension, and diabetes. Obese teens often struggle with psychological and social dilemmas lie low activity or sedentary level; alcohol/drug/food addiction; disordered eating patterns; online gaming addiction; impulsiveness; depression; anger; anhedonia, apathetic, or passiveness; low self-esteem; truancy; poor relationships with peers; deficiency in health maintenance attitudes; and poor school performance.
The Elk River Healthy Lifestyles Program
Located in Huntsville, Alabama, Elk River Healthy Lifestyles provides an environment of challenge, acceptance, and respect where each teenager can become educated, self-directed, and good member of the community. Each teen in the program has an individualized program to address his/her unique needs. Nutrition education, fitness, academics, and intensive counseling are part of the state-of-the-art program. Nutritional assessments and once a week clinical exercise aid in safe weight loss.
Group counseling, as well as individual counseling sessions, is designed to discover the causes of the teen’s eating disorder. Topics like depression, food addiction, stress management, healthy self-sustaining behaviors, self-esteem, co-dependency, and limit setting are part of the counseling program. Elk River Healthy Lifestyles equips each teen with the necessary tools for motivation and self-confidence in maintaining his/her ideal weight. The program also offers education from grades 6 to 12. The parents are also provided with a workbook where they learn nurturing techniques, healthy limit setting, expressive communication, and family-based problem solving. A three-day family workshop is also offered at the end of the program so that the family reconnects with each other while supporting each other for the life-long success of the weight management plan.
http://www.thepinnacleschools.com
Related articles
Keas Raises $6.5 Million To Turn A Healthy Lifestyle Into A Game (techcrunch.com)
Building Self-Esteem in Teens Ecourse (parentingteens.about.com)
Teens – Fit for Life (psychologytoday.com)
How Your Lifestyle Impacts Your Mental Health (blogs.psychcentral.com)
7 Of My Favorite Books On Body Image (blogs.psychcentral.com)
Deal With Life’s Ups and Downs Without Eating Potato Chips (psychologytoday.com)
Two “Must Have” Skills for Successful Weight Loss (psychologytoday.com)
Maintaining A Healthy Lifestyle (eyeonannapolis.net)
The Five Unhealthiest Habits of the Holidays (self.com)
Don’t Quit Your Weight-Loss Program – Try These Tips! (e-prescribe.biz)
Where I Am From (fatfreebrain.wordpress.com)
Disclaimer
Rescue Youth is committed to providing a directory that is accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive. All information provided is considered accurate as of the date indicated for each business record. Users of this Directory are advised that this information is provided as a general reference only. Rescue Youth assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained herein, and do not assume any liability resulting from errors or omissions. Inclusion or omission of business or organization is not a comment on its quality. Inclusion of a company or organization on the Rescue Youth Website does not constitute endorsement, or recommendations of their products or services.
Most of the programs listed on this website are not regulated by the federal government, and many are not subject to state licensing or monitoring as mental health or educational facilities, either. A 2007 Report to Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found cases involving serious abuse and neglect at some of these programs. Many programs advertise on the Internet and through other media, making claims about staff credentials, the level of treatment a participant will receive, program accreditation, education credit transfers, success rates, and endorsements by educational consultants.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, cautions that before you enroll a youngster in a private residential treatment program, check it out: ask questions; ask for proof or support for claims about staff credentials, program accreditation, and endorsements; do a site visit; and get all policies and promises in writing. Click here for questions to ask before you enroll your child in any program.
The post Elk River Healthy Lifestyles Program appeared first on Rescue Youth.
