How do I know if my child has a failure to launch syndrome?

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How do I know if my child has a failure to launch syndrome?

There are some telltale signs of failure to launch syndrome these include:

  • Still living at home (or parents paying rent, bills)
  • Difficulty finding employment (or keeping it)
  • Difficulty completing and finishing tasks
  • Lack of Motivation
  • Drug and alcohol use
  • Excessive gaming
  • Addiction to social media/selfies that impacts daily life
  • Inability to cook meals and complete laundry/cleaning tasks
  • Meltdowns if stressed
  • Withdrawing from family or zoning out at family events
  • Diagnosis with anxiety, depression or ADHD

These are a few of the signs that can be synonymous with failure to launch. This is not an exhaustive list and not all symptoms on the list mean the client is experiencing failure to launch syndrome. We suggest you book an evaluation with our clinical team to discover if you need assistance with our failure to launch program.

How do you fix Failure to Launch Syndrome?

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How do you fix Failure to Launch Syndrome?

Fixing failure to launch syndrome has a lot to do with the root cause of a problem behavior that is underlying why the person feels stuck. Understanding the root cause which can be a lack of motivation, lack of job skill, or helicopter or lawnmower parenting that has put an individual into a specific pattern. Uncovering and removing those stuck points is the key to fixing failure to launch syndrome in the young to mid-adult. A big part of handling these issues is involving the parents as part of the structured team.

Let Dr. Cali Estes and her team of certified and trained coaches and staff create the right scenario and environment for the young to flourish. We specialize in helping the failure to launch client go from stuck to success in a positive forward direction. It is also understanding that the goals that a parent may have when a child has the failure to launch syndrome may not be the same goals that the child has or they may be goals the child cannot implement which is causing the failure to launch syndrome. The person that is stuck may also be using drugs and alcohol to escape and mask the problems that they do not want to deal with. Dr. Cali Estes and her team will uncover the stuck points identify the stress issues and work on lessening the barriers to achieve success. We prefer to involve the family as a unit and create a positive forward motion in the young adult as a team.

What is Failure to Launch Syndrome?

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What is Failure to Launch Syndrome?

Failure to launch syndrome is a term that is given to young to middle-age adults that can’t seem to do certain things in life. This group of individuals seems to lack motivation, life skills, job skills, and almost would rather stay at home than be successful and fruitful in life. For a very long time, we have thought that this particular population was simply lazy and unmotivated but now we are learning that they are actually lacking the skill set of a particular generation to do the things that society has expected of them.

In a society where a child is given a graduation from elementary school, middle school and even high school and not cut from any clubs, organization or sports teams has sent a message that a child will never fail in life. We have not properly prepared our young adults for the real world. If every student gets a 50% for just showing up to class and not turning anything in, how can we expect them to show up to work and if they miss a day not expect to be paid. We can’t because they are not equipped for the perils of life.

Understanding how to get to the root cause of the ambivalence under failure to lunch syndrome and identify the stuck points, and move forward from stuck to success is the goal of fixing failure to launch. One of the ways Dr. Cali Estes works on failure to launch is uncovering the root cause a problem behind not wanting to be successful and move forward in life. Every individual’s root cause of being stuck is different. This could be an issue like drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism, it could be the lack of job skills in the job market, an educational issue, or it could simply be depression or something like ADD. Uncovering the underlying issues is the key to understanding the failure to launch syndrome and understanding how to fix the root causes so that an individual goes from stuck to success in a very positive productive manner and the family sees a change and not only attitude but actual measurable results to paramount.