Therapies:

Intensive In-Home Therapy and Counseling:

The focus of treatment is to assist the child to address issues that affect his or her functioning. Overall treatment goals are to help the child learn and demonstrate:

• Improved behaviors;
• Appropriate, alternative coping and interactive skills; and
• Conflict resolution skills.
• Relapse prevention in the case of Juvenile Sex Offenders

It is expected that treatment will lead to healthy emotional growth and psychological development.>

Services include the development of treatment goals and strategies to meet identified needs. Individual therapy will have the capability to address a variety of problems that are issues specific for the individual child. The child is met in his or her own home.

All therapies are strength based and solution focused. Examples of issues that are addressed in individual therapy include sexual abuse, incest, separation, divorce, grief and loss, child-adolescent developmental tasks, parent-child relationships, neglect, disruptive behaviors, and juvenile sex offenses.

Family Therapy (In-Home):

Therapeutic treatment also is provided through family sessions with the child, parent(s) and other significant family members, if applicable. Issues typically addressed include intra-psychic, intra-familial, behavioral and other adjustment challenges that have involved grief and loss, child abuse (emotional, physical or sexual) or neglect issues, juvenile sexual offending, placement of children in foster care or adoption, and moderate to severe individual and family dysfunction.

Interventions draw heavily from strategic family therapy, functional and structural family therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Interventions also focus on developing social skills and problem solving capabilities.

The focus of treatment is to empower the family and assist the child and family in addressing issues that affect their functioning. The family is met in their own home.

Group Therapy:

Therapeutic treatment for the child includes the group treatment modality, when indicated. Group therapy services target identification of problems and resolution of such through supportive group meetings and structured group discussions. Therapy is solution focused. Issues are addressed within a group setting when it is determined that it is the most appropriate medium. The focus of treatment will be to assist the child to address issues which affect his or her functioning and to assist the child to move toward appropriate conflict resolution and improved emotional growth.

Juvenile sex offender group therapy is based on the cognitive behavioral model and facilitated by a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider.

Group therapy discussions focus on values clarification, goal setting, problem resolution, relationship responsibilities and acceptable social skills. Examples of issues that are addressed in group therapy include sexual abuse, incest, separation, divorce, grief and loss, child-adolescent developmental tasks, parent-child relationships, neglect, and placement of children in foster care or adoption.

Family group therapy discussions are family centered and focus on healthy family systems and empowering parents. These groups provide a context in which parents receive support for what they are going through as well as education with regard to how they may aid in the treatment of their adolescent. Placing parents in groups with other parents who are experiencing many of the same emotions offers a safe forum for expression and discussion of those feelings.

Outpatient Therapy:

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Therapeutic Day Treatment

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Other Services:

Therapeutic Mentoring:

A Therapeutic Mentor is usually assigned to a client to support the primary therapist. The Mentor will help the primary therapist develop a treatment plan and then direct the client to move toward good social behavior and performance. The child is assigned tasks in line with their treatment goals. The mentor will go to the child’s home and work with him or her in their own environment. This may be in the community, the school or the home. The mentor will work with the community resources to facilitate wrap around care for the child.

All face-to-face contact with the family or child is in the home or another location convenient to the family. All meeting times are at the convenience of the family.