Youth Care Residential Treatment Program Featured On "Dr. Phil"

Youth Care was featured on the nationally syndicated "Dr. Phil" show on October 16, 2006. "Dr. Phil" chose Youth Care to help a pregnant, runaway teen who needed to rebuild her troubled relationship with her mother. Sixteen-year-old Brittney attended Youth Care for two months as part of a life-changing intervention.

"My daughter had been missing for about a month. When I found out that she pregnant, I was hurt and scared for her," said Heidi, Brittney's mother. "I love my daughter and wanted her to understand how difficult it is to raise a baby. Through the help of Dr. Phil, we were able to send Brittney to Youth Care."

"When I first came to Youth Care, I was very confused. I was mad at my mother," Brittney explained. "I'm starting to feel more confident in my relationship with my mother."

"Brittney has made really good progress. She and her mom have worked in family therapy on trying to build up their relationship," says Brittney's therapist, who has been counseling her for two months.

Youth Care's comprehensive therapeutic approach provided an opportunity for Brittany to develop a strong foundation for a hopeful future and has helped her family redefine what matters most as they create a new relationship going forward. Youth Care's empirically-based treatment model - Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - helps students like Brittney develop effective coping strategies and sustain these changes to adulthood.

While at Youth Care Inc., Brittney was involved in the "Baby-Think-It-Over" program, which uses a simulated baby that looks like a doll. The doll cries and acts like a baby, teaching young mothers about the challenges of parenting.