Why choose Adolescent Growth, Inc
Why choose Adolescent Growth, Inc.?
Does on size fit all?
A Ferrari is a beautiful, graceful car, but when faced with the task of hauling around a bunch of 2x4s, a truck is a better fit. Even though one may fall prey to the captivating lines of gorgeous Italian machinery, strapping lumber with duct tape on a rag top roof wouldn't make much sense.
As it is with sports cars and trucks, there are varying needs that should drive placement decisions. A short term intervention, intended as an intensive "wake-up call" to redirect a youngster into more positive function, may best be accomplished in an outdoor behavior program. If the child presents with more persistent behavior problems, such as oppositional behavior, a longer intervention, often offered through emotional growth schools, may be indicated. However, if the adolescent shows an underlying emotional or mental health disturbance, a residential treatment program at Adolescent Growth, Inc. may be optimal. Adolescent Growth, Inc. is a clinically based residential treatment program, where critical treatment components such as education, therapeutic milieu programming, activity and diversion, therapy, and psychiatry are uniquely integrated. Adolescent Growth, Inc. sometimes refer to these five, fundamental elements of programming as the "five food groups" of residential treatment programs. Adolescent Growth, Inc. emerged as an industry leader by integrating these elements in a form that had not been done before — a truly integrated, multi modal, multi-disciplinary approach which enhanced the change process on all levels. Perhaps a parent, who had come to Adolescent Growth, Inc. after prior treatment failures, put it best by saying that "Adolescent Growth, Inc. cooks on all burners." What follows are some of the salient characteristics of our "cooking."
Leadership
Perhaps the most fundamental of the "food groups" in a residential setting is the milieu, or therapeutic environment.The unique composition of Adolescent Growth, Inc.'s milieu program is a carefully crafted blend of a positive peer environment and a social learning model combined with continuous professional supervision and modeling. A mountain of evidence indicates that the most influential persons in the life of an adolescent are his parents and peers.
Environment
A primary goal of treatment is to help a child self regulate and problem solve without adults monitoring their every move. Initially, however, most youth want to go "where I want, when I want," even though they repeatedly make poor choices such as running away, being truant, etc. Without external structure, these youth struggle to make needed change and may resort to anything to avoid accountability. Others are fearful that negative peers and pressures may intrude upon them as they try to change.
Integrity
When Adolescent Growth, Inc. mixed clinical sophistication with a well-developed milieu program in 1994, it was a new concept in our industry. At that time, traditional emotional growth programs on one side and medical model programming on the other were leery of each other. Each contended that mixing clinical rigor with milieu programming was incompatible. Adolescent Growth, Inc., however, built a "cross-over vehicle" that combined elements of each.
Education
The same advantage a comprehensive team of clinicians provides also applies when providing relevant education. Rather than trying to teach a wide range of students with varying abilities in the same classroom, the relatively large student population at Adolescent Growth, Inc. allows each student to be placed in classes that are subject and grade specific with students of similar abilities. The classes are then taught by certified, full time Adolescent Growth, Inc. teachers.
Recreation
Recreation is a matter of choice. These choices are made based on expected results, whether that is fun, challenge, learning, improved health, relaxation, or others. The teenage years have always been a time to experiment. Often, that experimentation involves unhealthy recreation which is attractive to teenagers because it may be new, taboo, exciting, and doesn't require a lot of forethought. The recreation program at Adolescent Growth, Inc. opens up doors to healthy forms of recreation. Certified fitness instructors implement cardiovascular and strength training activities six days a week.
Experience
The "gold standard" ascribed to Adolescent Growth, Inc. comes not only through the richness and depth of each "food group"but the manner in which our delivery systems are integrated. The right hand knows what the left hand is doing, assuring that all variables of change are brought to bear in a coordinated, collaborative fashion. In that sense, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Does on size fit all?
A Ferrari is a beautiful, graceful car, but when faced with the task of hauling around a bunch of 2x4s, a truck is a better fit. Even though one may fall prey to the captivating lines of gorgeous Italian machinery, strapping lumber with duct tape on a rag top roof wouldn't make much sense.
As it is with sports cars and trucks, there are varying needs that should drive placement decisions. A short term intervention, intended as an intensive "wake-up call" to redirect a youngster into more positive function, may best be accomplished in an outdoor behavior program. If the child presents with more persistent behavior problems, such as oppositional behavior, a longer intervention, often offered through emotional growth schools, may be indicated. However, if the adolescent shows an underlying emotional or mental health disturbance, a residential treatment program at Adolescent Growth, Inc. may be optimal. Adolescent Growth, Inc. is a clinically based residential treatment program, where critical treatment components such as education, therapeutic milieu programming, activity and diversion, therapy, and psychiatry are uniquely integrated. Adolescent Growth, Inc. sometimes refer to these five, fundamental elements of programming as the "five food groups" of residential treatment programs. Adolescent Growth, Inc. emerged as an industry leader by integrating these elements in a form that had not been done before — a truly integrated, multi modal, multi-disciplinary approach which enhanced the change process on all levels. Perhaps a parent, who had come to Adolescent Growth, Inc. after prior treatment failures, put it best by saying that "Adolescent Growth, Inc. cooks on all burners." What follows are some of the salient characteristics of our "cooking."
Leadership
Perhaps the most fundamental of the "food groups" in a residential setting is the milieu, or therapeutic environment.The unique composition of Adolescent Growth, Inc.'s milieu program is a carefully crafted blend of a positive peer environment and a social learning model combined with continuous professional supervision and modeling. A mountain of evidence indicates that the most influential persons in the life of an adolescent are his parents and peers.
Environment
A primary goal of treatment is to help a child self regulate and problem solve without adults monitoring their every move. Initially, however, most youth want to go "where I want, when I want," even though they repeatedly make poor choices such as running away, being truant, etc. Without external structure, these youth struggle to make needed change and may resort to anything to avoid accountability. Others are fearful that negative peers and pressures may intrude upon them as they try to change.
Integrity
When Adolescent Growth, Inc. mixed clinical sophistication with a well-developed milieu program in 1994, it was a new concept in our industry. At that time, traditional emotional growth programs on one side and medical model programming on the other were leery of each other. Each contended that mixing clinical rigor with milieu programming was incompatible. Adolescent Growth, Inc., however, built a "cross-over vehicle" that combined elements of each.
Education
The same advantage a comprehensive team of clinicians provides also applies when providing relevant education. Rather than trying to teach a wide range of students with varying abilities in the same classroom, the relatively large student population at Adolescent Growth, Inc. allows each student to be placed in classes that are subject and grade specific with students of similar abilities. The classes are then taught by certified, full time Adolescent Growth, Inc. teachers.
Recreation
Recreation is a matter of choice. These choices are made based on expected results, whether that is fun, challenge, learning, improved health, relaxation, or others. The teenage years have always been a time to experiment. Often, that experimentation involves unhealthy recreation which is attractive to teenagers because it may be new, taboo, exciting, and doesn't require a lot of forethought. The recreation program at Adolescent Growth, Inc. opens up doors to healthy forms of recreation. Certified fitness instructors implement cardiovascular and strength training activities six days a week.
Experience
The "gold standard" ascribed to Adolescent Growth, Inc. comes not only through the richness and depth of each "food group"but the manner in which our delivery systems are integrated. The right hand knows what the left hand is doing, assuring that all variables of change are brought to bear in a coordinated, collaborative fashion. In that sense, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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