Psycho-educational Treatment

Behavioral treatment is provided continuously throughout the day by the residential staff under the supervision of psycho-educational experts. The milieu staff are highly trained and closely monitored. The use of a highly sophisticated level system and token economy assist the staff in modifying behaviors by using of rationales that kids will understand, as well as pointing to the direct consequences of their behavior. Teaching interactions, role-plays, and positive correction activities help the student replace inappropriate behavior with socially appropriate behavior. The behavioral treatment staff members work closely with the therapists to ensure that treatment goals are addressed each day in the milieu.

The residential staff members are also responsible for skills development activities that assist the students in learning social and life skills. Some of the skills that are actively taught and reinforced are following instructions and rules, accepting decisions of others, accepting feedback, appropriately disagreeing, peer relations, expressing feelings, recognizing and reducing thinking errors, rational problem solving, accepting responsibility for behavior, positive and effective communication, empathy for others, meal planning and preparation, care of physical and dental health, appropriate boundaries, positive attention seeking, and so on.