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21. Therapeutic Boarding School
It is also known as residential treatment center. It is similar to a specialty boarding school, except it provides individual and group therapy. Teenagers usually stay in the facility from 6 to 18 months.
22. Troubled Teenager
An adolescent kid who has emotional, behavioral and learning dysfunction. He or she has high risk for depression, drug or alcohol, violence, suicide and other teen problems. He or she often has a problem following rules and respecting authorities. He or she is manipulative over others and situations, as well as highly secretive. Known to be defiant, such a child shows behavior beyond the normality of teenage occasional rebellion.