The Value of Transport Services
Parents who have made the decision to place their teen in a treatment center or other intervention program often overlook the value of professional transport services. In an effort to save money, or to remain as involved as possible, they place themselves and their troubled teens in potentially explosive situations. Not only can perilous situations be avoided, but by employing an escort professional numerous benefits can be realized.
Managing Emotion, Anxiety, and Crisis
Normally there is a high degree of emotion and anxiety associated with the concept and process of placing a teen in a program. Parents feel justified. Teens feel defiant or unfairly overwhelmed.
When skilled transport companies become involved, much of the emotional tension is instantly released. The intervention, along with de-escalation techniques, begins immediately, in your home. Through proper planning with you, you merely need to make the decision, then allow the troubled teen transport company to provide you with fulfillment of your objectives. Your teen is far more prepared to respond to unfamiliar, caring, though determined authority figures, than he/she might otherwise be with you. From the moment they begin contact and communication with your teen, anxiety decreases, and the potential for crisis or safety issues diminishes.
The Difficulty with Parent Transports
When parents seek to complete the transport themselves, especially with highly manipulative or defiant teens, they are bombarded incessantly with techniques honed by their long-term relationship with their teen. Buttons are pushed. Anxiety, guilt, anger, and fear are but a few of the emotions that become increasingly intense. But worse, should the teen succeed in preventing placement, he/she loses by winning. Weakness is reinforced. Placement is necessary. You know it. But you also know you've been defeated -- And your teen knows it.
The emotional strain on parents in this process is serious enough. But when parents feel defeated it is often overwhelming. Seeking to save money, in this case, can actually have costs that are neither easily nor readily quantifiable.
Sadly, parents who attempt the transport their teen because they want to let their teen know they care, are often the recipients of the most aggressive manipulative strategies by their teens. Hurtful statements and attacks are made in an attempt to make the parents feel guilty. Ironically, the same message of care and concern for the teen can be provided through the transport process, without the risk of manipulative harm coming from the teen during transport.
For Safety and Success, Intervention Begins at Home
In essence, transport professionals make it clear, not only to your teen, but to you, that intervention begins in your home. Ultimately, as treatment care provides the help your teen needs, intervention will ultimately end with your teen successfully re-entering your home, and properly functioning in the family environment.
Another benefit, often not considered by parents, is that students are far more likely to enter the treatment program feeling positive and willing to engage in the treatment process when they have been transported. They don't walk through the doors of the program having just separated from a heated emotional encounter with their parents. They aren't tricked and "dropped off" by parents who made them think they were going on vacation. When teens enter a program on a bad note, they often focus their feelings of anger, betrayal, and defiance on the treatment staff and program. Sometimes this process of anger and defiance takes months to overcome.
What are the Costs? What are the Benefits?
Consider your teen. Will it be more costly not to employ a skilled, trained transport company?
We are here to help. If you are considering treatment, consider having us assist you with arrangement of transport services. We're your resource, beginning with proper intervention at home. Your anxiety, heartache, and frustration will be lower. The likelihood of your teen's success will be higher. Let us help.
