About Liahona
“…As a residential treatment center for troubled boys, we believe that love combined with consistency, delivered in a safe environment, is the key to changing the hearts of troubled young men. Unconditional acceptance (love) and consistency (fair and firm discipline) in a safe (physically and emotionally safe) setting are the key ingredients to formulating a true heart change…”
About Liahona Treatment Center
You are not alone and we can help! If your son is self-destructing: lying, skipping classes, defying authority, depressed, angry, abusing drugs and alcohol, and hanging out with the wrong kids, he is most likely struggling at home and at school, resulting in troubling behavior. Contact us because we can help you. If your troubled teen is acting out, emotionally immature, and making one poor choice after another, we have the solution. It’s as simple as this: speak with some of our former or current families and find out exactly how effective we are.
Our Mission
Provide professional, holistic treatment to adolescents and their families in a healthy, and skillful setting so that they may if they choose be happy and healthy.
Why choose Liahona for your son?
Liahona is built on the positive peer culture therapeutic approach, where the students work together with the treatment staff to help themselves and each other produce lasting change. When it comes to residential treatment, Liahona is different. We are set apart from other programs. This is in large part due to the quality of our staff members we have assembled. We are proud of the success our students and families have enjoyed since we opened in 2001.
The Right Therapeutic Intervention for Troubled Boys
Liahona presents a refreshing and stimulating environment grounded on a positive structure and an understanding of natural consequences. Natural consequences can be positive or negative. At Liahona Treatment Center the inappropriate behaviors are met with empathy and fair outlined, consistent consequences. While good healthy behavior is met with positive, consistent consequences as well. Through this process the students become empowered in their own lives. They develop a sense of control in their own lives and the outcomes they experience. They do not submit to authority so much as they learn to work with authority to generate the outcomes that they themselves want. Liahona is not a punitive program. It is a program that teaches healthy and correct principles that when acted upon result in consistent positive outcomes. Each student achieves the exact results that he chooses to have based on the choices that he makes.
If a student does not make healthy or positive decisions then he chooses not to have the rewards that come from healthy choices, and he chooses the natural consequence associated with his own choice. This takes away the power struggles that defiant attitudes often come with as the students are reinforced that they create their own results. The student is taught that they are free to create their own outcomes. They do not have to “surrender or give in to authority” but they can use their own power to create their own outcomes. They are then consistently held accountable (positive or negative) for these choices. This ability transitions very well into the home environment where the parents set out the rules of the home. The student learns that making certain choices will bring freedom and rewards while other choices will bring out less freedom or consequences. The parents will learn how to use the language of natural consequences in their own relationship with their child to help facilitate healthy communication, defuse power struggles, and maintain consistency that relationships require. The Liahona students often comment on the “safety” of the environment where they know what is expected, and they also know they will be treated with respect while being held accountable for their choices (both good and bad). At Liahona Treatment Center greatness is expected, and the clear message that “you have what it takes” is presented in all that we do.
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