The Age of Adolescent Anxiety | Family Information on Web

Monday, July 9, 2012

Interview by Lon Woodbury

Dr. Dan Villiers, Founder and Director of Admissions of The Mountain Valley Treatment Center spoke with Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio about debilitating anxiety in teenagers and a variety of effective therapeutic treatment plans for this disorder.

Background

After Dan graduated from Kenyon College, he obtained a Masters Degrees from Kent State University and Dartmouth College. He then went on to acquire a combined Ph.D. in Counseling and School Psychology from Northeastern University.

The Mountain Valley Treatment Center offers therapy for adolescents struggling with higher-than-normal levels of anxiety, anxiety so severe that it weakens their potential in school and causes acute discomfort in any social situation. Mountain Valley Treatment Center is a special place that offers highly-effective methods for managing unusual stress because of its specialization in only treating anxiety disorders. Adolescents who come here experience renewed psychological health and wellness. Teenagers benefit from the uplifting natural surroundings, the special therapeutic approach and the extensive care.

Defining High Anxiety

Although anxiety is a typical part of human experience, it can become disabling for young people when it disrupts their potential to handle life in their own homes as well as in school. Excessive anxiety can be defined as an extended and exaggerated reaction to a difficult life situation, one that jeopardizes a person?s ability to manage the demands of routine life.

During the interview, Dan went over the causes as well as symptoms of chronic anxiety, and he also discussed numerous solutions.

Treatment Programs

The Mountain Valley Center was established to aid with anxiety conditions when regular therapy with school mental health professionals and psychotherapists in private practice proved to be inadequate. Treatment here works amazingly well due to the fact that therapy is much more intensive ? far surpassing the conventional fifty minute hour? and also more substantial? lasting from 30 to 90 days in a serene, scenic, and quiet atmosphere.

The highly-structured therapy sessions use Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior modification (DBT), solution-focused therapy, family systems treatment, and even short-term psychodynamic therapy.

Conclusion

The L.A. Radio Talk show answered many questions related to anxiety, ranging from what symptoms to notice to how parents should respond and from what is the best way to address anxiety to examples of how therapy has proven to be remarkably effective in dealing with a mood disorder that is at an epidemic proportion in the United States.

Learn more about helping struggling teens with severe anxiety. Stop by L.A. Talk Radio where you can listen to the full interview with Dr. Dan Villiers

Source: http://family.webeget.com/the-age-of-adolescent-anxiety/

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