TEEN BOARDING SCHOOLS
Therapies
Therapeutic boarding schools have many of the same features as traditional boarding schools, including recreational activities, college and career counseling, and a positive peer culture, but also incorporate a comprehensive therapeutic program. Teens who are struggling with emotional, behavioral and learning disorders benefit from the expertise of a carefully selected group of master’s and doctoral level professionals with specialized training in a wide variety of treatment methodologies.
The clinical team selects the therapies and interventions that would be most beneficial to each student, based on the teen’s unique needs and goals. In most cases, students receive
therapeutic assessments, medical and psychiatric consultations as appropriate, and individual, group and family therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Other Therapies
Art Therapy
In art therapy, the client uses clay, paint, and other art medium to create images that explore their feelings, dreams, memories or ideas.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral therapies use learning principles to eliminate or reduce unwanted reactions to external situations, one’s one thoughts and feelings, and bodily sensations or functions.
Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive therapies rely on other, largely verbal, learning principles — namely, those that involve cognition (perception, thinking, reasoning, attention and judgment).
Experiential Therapy
Experiential therapy is based on developing a client’s insight, or self-understanding, and focuses on problems of living such as choice, meaning, responsibility, and death.
Family/Marital Therapy
In Family Therapy, the therapist applies therapeutic principles while engaging the participation of family members, individually and as a group.
Interpersonal Therapy
In Interpersonal therapy, therapists challenge clients with questions so that the client increases their awareness of feelings and develops a stronger ability to face daily-living situations and problems.
Individual Group Therapy
Humanistic psychology acknowledges that an individual’s mind is strongly influenced by ongoing determining forces in both their unconscious and in the world around them, specifically the society in which they live.
Recreational Therapy
Recreational therapy uses activities like hiking, cross-country skiing and rock climbing to help teens develop social skills.
Wilderness Therapy
Recreational therapy uses activities like hiking, cross-country skiing and rock climbing to help teens develop social skills.
Substance Abuse Therapy
Teens struggling with drug or alcohol abuse may receive specialized substance abuse counseling during their stay.
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