A high percentage of children treated here are adopted. Almost all have had several years of therapy with one or more therapists. Some have been hospitalized one or more times. Whatever the help, there is little evidence of positive change as measured by improvement in the child's behavior and in his or her ability to trust. This is an outpatient facility.
Families stay at local hostelries or with friends or family nearby.
Two therapists are generally used. If indicated, the child may stay in a therapeutic foster family for all or part of the two weeks. Family Focus Treatment always involves a child and the parents. Sometimes we involve siblings as the child has often abused them and corrective work is needed for these relationships. The parents are involved in all thirty hours of treatment.