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Island View
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Location:
Syracuse, UT
School Gender: Co-ed School Type: Residential Treatment Center Age Of Acceptance: 12-18 Program Length: N/A Tuition: N/A |
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Island View Co-Ed Treatment Information:
About Us
Much like the human body requires a balanced diet that draws from the basic food groups, so does a troubled adolescent require a carefully selected assortment of services and interventions in order to make desired
changes.In the past, less restrictive approaches may have rendered few or no results for adolescents requiring residentially based care. Often, this is due to the inability to utilize all the necessary treatment elements and apply them in a choreographed manner.
At Island View, we make it our business to use all the critical ingredients, not just a few, to combine the best recipe for success:
• A therapeutic, positive peer environment
• Individual, group and family therapy
• Education
• Activity and Recreation Services
• Other support services
Understandably, parents want the most for their children: the ability to achieve goals, good friends, positive self-esteem, a strong family relationship, physical and emotional health, self-control, joy and satisfaction in life.
However, many parents face disappointment on several fronts by the time their children enter adolescence, despite untiring effort and love.
In some cases, adolescents with perpetually unchanging, self-defeating behavior require a high-impact, long-term residential treatment environment; one that can help troubled teens address and overcome the full spectrum of personal obstacles; one that, in time can help them become whole.
Island View is such a place.
At Island View adolescent residential treatment center, we build healthy futures through an unparalleled treatment program. From a solid foundation started in 1994, we have asked adolescents to build upon their strengths, abandon self-defeating behaviors, understand their unique issues and gifts, and accept help.
Therapy
Individual Therapy is a regularly scheduled formalized psychotherapeutic session held at least once per week. Individual psychotherapy focuses on improving the overall level of adaptive functioning in the areas of reality testing, behavior, emotional expression, and interpersonal relationships. In addition, individual therapy takes on significant value in the resolution of issues and concerns that the resident feels ill-prepared to take to the group session or that are of such a private nature that discussion in a group format would be clinically contraindicated.
Group Therapy utilizing a Positive Peer Culture format is a formal psychotherapeutic session held in a small group format two to three times per week, while therapist driven Process and Problem Solving Groups are held weekly. Reasons for increased group therapy over individual therapy are based on the clinical literature that shows that group therapy is often more effective with adolescents than individual therapy. This model assists residents in realizing the goals and objectives set by treatment team members, residents and families. In the group, residents encourage each other’s positive behaviors and confront negative and self-defeating ones. Such peer feedback is often far more powerful than the expert opinion of a professional, well-meaning parent or other well-meaning adult.
Family Therapy is provided by the resident’s primary therapist and is an integral part of the resident’s comprehensive treatment. The road leading to residential placement of a teenager is often paved with pain, disappointment, fear, guilt and feelings of helplessness. For that reason, residential treatment does not only involve the child but his or her family in the process of change. Thus, all residents and their families are involved in weekly family therapy either at the Center, via conference telephone calls, or coordinated by the Center in the resident’s home community. Quarterly Parent Seminars are hosted on the Island View campus with regional Parent Seminars offered on a regular basis in different areas around the country.
