Thrive Girls Ranch & Home understands that you want to find help for your struggling teen girl who may be suffering with Compulsive Personality Disorder. We provide therapy for girls like her at our affordable, specialized boarding school, set in a safe, positive and structured environment near Austin, Texas.
What is Compulsive Personality Disorder?
We can help your daughter if she has Compulsive Personality Disorder, sometimes called Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. OCPD is characterized as being fixated with perfectionism and control, showing itself in highly driven (often, first born) children. Your girl may not find it easy to be decisive, and be oversensitive to criticism, struggle with being adaptable or willing to try new situations, as she is seeking perfection in virtually everything she does.
She may show repetitive behaviors (as in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder*) that are beyond her control to stop, have a preoccupation with details, rules and lists, and even be a workaholic.
She is likely to toil with her own expectations as well as perceived expectations of those around her.
Causes are believed to be an interlinking of environmental, genetic factors and unbalanced brain chemistry.
*Note: while sometimes used interchangeably, OCPD is not to be confused with OCD. An OCD sufferer has unwanted thoughts, but an OCPD sufferer believes her thinking to be correct and natural.
Finding Help for Your Girl
There are no blood tests to confirm your daughter’s diagnosis; a professional must determine whether her symptoms and life history meet the criteria. Her thinking may be so automatic that she does not recognize this problem, possibly not even realizing it until her world falls apart.
Persistent group/individual and long-term therapy can be quite valuable in improving her environment, but your daughter is likely to be unwilling to change. It is important to remember that she has not chosen to have these compulsive thoughts and so any judgment, actual or perceived, only increases the stress she already faces. It is important to encourage her, to help her be comfortable in new ways of thinking, and accept her, rather than judge her for her compulsive behaviors.
Support groups are an excellent adjunct, to gain emotional and social support from the community, assuring your daughter’s continuing autonomy and steadiness.
How Your Teen Girl Can Change and Thrive
At Thrive Girls Ranch & Home, we provide therapeutic counseling to each individual girl, plus daily learning experiences and activities that nurture a true change of heart–and help her thrive in life.
Thrive Girls Ranch & Home offers life transformation to girls who struggle with life-controlling and self-destructive behaviors or attitudes like Compulsive Personality Disorder. We desire to see every girl discover her God-given potential, and live out our core values of integrity, compassion, community, vision, stewardship, servanthood, and faith in Jesus Christ.
Here, teen girls receive fully accredited middle and high school curriculum through Alpha Omega Academy. We also offer extensive academic recovery options, and help her prepare to transition into a normal, healthy lifestyle in college, ministry or the workforce. And because we highly value family restoration, parents can visit their girl once a month, and receive good insight on improving family relationships.
Need help with your teen girl suffering with Compulsive Personality Disorder?
We enroll girls (ages 12-17 years) year-round, but we have a limited number of placements.
Please call (512) 545-2226 now. We want to help!
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Thrive Girl’s Ranch & Home can help your teenage girls who is displaying risky behaviors through our specialized boarding school set in a safe and structured environment. We have a limited number of placements available, so call us today!
