Life at Fulshear is so active, varied, and full, that the best way to experience it is to visit. So we've arranged for you to visit Fulshear Ranch Academy right now! Just click through the photo album, below, to get a glimpse of life at the Fulshear Ranch Campus and in the Fulshear Apartments. Life at Fulshear, as you'll see, is busy, intense, and fun. We believe that discovering one's passion is the key to discovering, and entering, a rich and productive adult life. So we provide ample opportunities for our students to try a wide variety of new things-everything from art, to equestrian skills, to interning in an attorney's office-all in a spirit of exploration and discovery. We also help young women develop their passions into skills and their skills into a life. Take a peek at the active life of a Fulshear student. If you'd like to arrange an in-person visit, we'd love to have you! Just contact us to set up a tour. We hope to see you soon!
Rewiring Neurons in Young Women with PTSD Therapists can help this neural "reprogramming" along by creating a safe, affirming, supportive context in which the young-adult trauma victim can explore past events but have a different emotional experience when they do this exploration. This helps the young woman re-experience previously traumatizing experiences without feeling overwhelmed emotionally.
A Parallel Process for Treating Parent/Child PTSD It can be so difficult for a parent to process their child’s trauma that they may unwittingly minimize and deny the severity of the situation—it’s just too much to take in. When this is the case, parents may miss the forest for the trees, i.e. they may unintentionally ignore the underlying trauma in favor of a myopic, but perhaps less disturbing, focus on acting out behaviors that are merely symptomatic of the trauma. Their daughter's distance, anger, anxiety, and situational avoidance may distract the parent from the painful cause of these symptoms.
Parenting and Family Life: Volunteering While many teens initially view community service as an unwelcome chore, it becomes a highlight for many students over the course of treatment.
