There is plenty of blame to go around, with little idea of what's gone wrong.
Troubled youngsters arrive out of control, having been branded as failures and misfits.
Life for them has become a downward spiral at home and at school. Without help, their life-destruction may well continue, often involving depression, drugs, hospitalization, and suicide. Troubled parents feel impotent and betrayed, no longer able to cope, or to see their place in the problem or in the solution. For such families the wounds are deep. The stakes are high.