Troubled Girls and the Roots of Body Image Issues

Zion Educational Systems can help you find a faith based residential treatment center providing programs to help troubled girls × Troubled girls
The term troubled girls refers to adolescent females who struggle with therapeutic, emotional or behavioral disorders. Troubled girls often struggle with issues such as, problems in school, have little to no respect towards authority, or struggle with unhealthy addictions. Parents of troubled girls need to understand the potential dangers that may arise in the lives of a troubled teenage girl. Adeloscent girls who show signs of being troubled, or suffer from emotionally or behavioral disorders are at high risk. Drug abuse, sexual acting out and other problematic behavior will run rampant and out of control if unchecked or ignored. Teenage girls who do not receive adequate or necessary treatment are likely to carry this type of mindset and behavior with them well into adulthood. There is a plethora of options for parents of troubled girls to seek help from in terms of treatment. These therapeutic options include, therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment programs, residential ranch therapy programs and group homes for troubled teens.
and the roots of body image issues.  We offer a same sex environment × Environment
n.noun en·vi·ron·ment The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines environment as the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. A person’s environment, or social surroundings, have an enormous impact on the way that person thinks and operates. If a person is surrounded by negativity, he/she is more likely to replicate that negativity and display negative behaviors in other areas of life. The environment of a troubled teen can often be the root cause or factor in the troubled adolescent’s negative behavior. When an impressionable teenage boy or girl is surrounded by negative peers, it is common for these teens to develop negative behaviors themselves. It is for this reason that parents should be aware of their child’s social surroundings and environmental influences. If a teenage boy or girl is troubled, a total change in their environment may be in order. By replacing a troubled teen’s negative environment with that of a therapeutic, nurturing and rehabilitative environment, troubled adolescents are able to emotional, therapeutic and behavioral restoration.
allows teen girls to feel comfortable enough to be open and build strong peer support × Support
Support / sup·port/ n. Noun Support is defined as the act or instance of supporting; serve as a foundation for something else. Support can be given to many different ways. Through the encouragement to perform and progress and also through being there for someone who needs help. Support is usually shown through family and peers but can come from anywhere from support centers, rehab centers, and treatment centers. Without a support, confidence would be very difficult to find. Support is key to getting through trials and problems. The ability to have someone that is supporting you and encouraging you to move forward and progress is important to growth and change. Especially with youth, that as they are trying to find out who they are that they feel supported in all of their doings. This is important because as support and encouragement is shown the youth feel confident to become the best they can be.
which is essential in the recovery and treatment process.  We are designed to generate an opportunity for change and dedicated to offering help and hope to families in need. Please call 866-471-8579 for more information. Body image issues in troubled girls is part of an identity crisis that reveals where some teens are getting their sense of self-worth from.  In this case, she is getting her identity from what she looks like, instead of who she is.  

What Are the Root Causes of Body Image Issues?

It is very difficult to pinpoint the root cause of an individual’s body image issues, but it is apparent that the cycle is complicated and includes influences from both media and peers × Peers
Peers /peer/ Peers are the people of which a person associates. Peers have a strong influence on person’s thoughts, actions, and will also play a key part in how a person develops and will determine who a person will become. Peers always have an influence but occur especially in a person’s youth. Parents should make it a priority to inform children of how important their peer group is on them. Discussions about this topic can help to prevent children from choosing friends that could lead them down dangerous paths. Peers who involve themselves in negative behaviors will begin to oppose school and parents and can also influence others in the peer group to do the same. It is important to support the finding of positively influential peers for children. However, peers can also help uplift others to strive to become better and want success. Those are the peers you should surround yourself with and also your children.
.  A lot of it is caused by teen girls comparing themselves to their friends. They look to their peers for a measure of who they should be, or what they should look like. It doesn’t help that the social media facilitates this activity. It is apparent that messages about thinness and beauty are conveyed to very young girls through the media and other sociocultural factors. From a very young age, girls are given Barbie dolls to play with, even the Disney princess dolls depict women with large breasts, unnaturally tiny waists and long long legs. These convey early body image messages that very young girls observe in supposedly child-friendly television shows, comics, and films.  Young girls ultimately practice their roles for the future through play and using Barbie as their role model. They are given messages that Barbie is a successful woman who is also very beautiful and thin. By adopting these messages, girls are linking together the ideas of success, beauty, and thinness, and may connect these ideas as going hand in hand with each other. Body image during childhood has important implications. In addition to effecting a girl’s developing sense of self-worth, it may lead to dieting, depression × Depression
Depression /de·pres·sion/ Depression is defined as a mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep. Statistics has shown that diagnosis of depression is growing at a very dangerous rate. Globally, depression affects over 350 million people of all ages. Depression has been linked to other negative health outcomes, such as obesity, heart disease, and stroke. Compared to those not affected by depression those who face it are more likely to be unemployed and have a higher chance of divorce. Most people that suffer from depression do not seek care or attention. Since this is a global issue, many efforts are made to help those who are suffering depression. It is important for those that face depression to find help so that they can overcome this plague that millions of people face.
, and related behaviors that are risk factors for chronic body image problems, obesity and eating disorders. 

Parent’s Influence is Important to Consider

The influence parents and family members have on teen’s body image and disordered eating is important to consider. Parental over-concern with children being thin or encouragement to avoid being fat can influence teenage girls to become constant dieters and use unhealthy weight control methods. At Zion Educational Systems, we understand these sensitive body image issues. We help troubled girls learn to love themselves, boosting their self-confidence and helping them have a desire to take control of their own lives.  Please call 1-866-471-8579 to speak to our Family Advisors.