This involves physical changes (leaving home) emotional, social, psychological and mental changes. Although most adolescence transition with relative and minimal problems, statistics, however. shows that one out of every ten adolescents has a mental illness leading to functional impairment. These youths are at high risk of emotional and behavioral problems; acting aggressively towards others, develop rituals, use alcohol or drugs, clinging to caregivers, self-harm, or have negative beliefs and feelings about themselves and experiencing a poor quality of life or drugs, clinging to caregivers, self-harm, or have negative beliefs and feelings about themselves.

At Brookside we provide complete assessments and evaluation, and therapy that focuses on underlying emotional problems that interfere with development. The clients are helped to understand the causes of their distress and learn coping skills to deal in healthy ways in the future through evidence-based techniques such as;