Residential Programs For Troubled Youth
Residential programs for troubled youth provide parents with a wide range of options and opportunities when searching for help with their adolescent or teenager. However, when selecting among residential programs for troubled youth throughout the United States, it is essential to find the program that best meets the needs of both the child and the entire family.
The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment is among the nation’s most innovative and highly effective residential programs for troubled youth. While programs focus on treatment first, the Aspen Institute places great emphasis on providing a clarity of diagnosis and identifying the optional course of treatment for youth in crisis.
When parents enroll an adolescent or teenager at the Aspen Institute, they can do so with the confidence that their diagnosis- and treatment-related worries and frustrations will soon be in the past. With a comprehensive series of assessments that is unique among the nation’s other residential programs for troubled youth, the Aspen Institute provides parents with unparalleled insights into the root causes of the challenges their child has been dealing with.
In addition, our assessment series – which includes behavioral, psychological, psychosocial, neuro-psychiatric, educational, and chemical dependency and related assessments – allows us to develop comprehensive treatment plans that are tailored to meet the unique needs of each student.
One of the primary challenges for treatment professionals at residential programs for troubled youth is determining the specific nature of the problems that their clients or patients are struggling with. In many cases, misunderstandings in this area lead to courses of treatment that target symptoms rather than causes.
Here’s an example of how an incorrect diagnosis can lead to misdirected treatment: Imagine a teenager who had been abused as a child, and who began abusing drugs while an adolescent as a misguided means of numbing himself to psychological pain that was caused by the abuse. This young person could enroll in several residential programs for troubled youth – but if his treatment focuses solely on his drug abuse and addiction, he will continue to suffer.
A young person such as the one described in the previous paragraph will not make significant progress until he receives treatment for the cause of his suffering (the trauma of childhood abuse) as well as for the result of that cause (the drug abuse and addiction).
At the Aspen Institute, our goal is to provide the assessment and diagnostic services that will allow us to clearly identify the true underlying cause of each patient’s problems, so that we can develop treatment plans that give young people the best possible opportunity to achieve lifelong recovery.
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