These programs serve to quickly remediate the youth s emotional or behavioral problems and provide additional support services, such as individual and family therapists, as needed. The Adolescent Residential Treatment Unit is a program that provides treatment services to adolescents requiring a highly-structured, supervised therapeutic environment. The program serves adolescents, ages 12 to 18, whose persistent and severe emotional difficulties interfere with adequate functioning at home, school, or community, and who are not likely to respond to a less-restrictive level of care. Adolescents who participate in the program develop skills and techniques that help them establish behavioral self controls. As a result, these adolescents are able to function within a less-structured environment in the community.
Treatment revolves around their psychiatric and behavioral problems, which are treated concurrently.
Clinical treatment components are designed to appropriately confront socially inappropriate, aggressive, impulsive, and self-destructive acts. Utilizing milieu and professional clinical services, youth learn new and improved internal self-control and management of their illnesses. Adaptive skills in different areas are taught until criteria demonstrating competency are met. This program offers children and adolescents who do not require 24-hour care the same intensity of programming as the Acute Program. A psychiatrist leads the multidisciplinary team of treatment professionals in providing the individualized treatment plans.