Adolescent Residential Treatment

Trauma Focused Residential Treatment for Teens

Our adolescent residential treatment center for teenagers serves adolescents with serious emotional or behavioral problems. The program addresses emotional issues at the root of inappropriate behavior and sets limits to teach residents to take responsibility for their present behavior. The residential treatment center provides adolescents a structured environment in which change can occur.

When to Seek Residential Treatment for Adolescents

• Marked decline in school performance
• Inability to cope with problems and daily activities
• Marked changes in sleeping or eating habits
• Extreme difficulties with concentration
• Sexually acting out
• Depression shown by prolonged negative attitude
• Severe mood swings
• Strong worries or anxieties
• Repeated use of alcohol or drugs
• Intense fear of obesity, excessive dieting, purging or using laxatives to lose weight
• Persistent nightmares
• Threats of self-harm or harm to others
• Self-harm or self-destructive behavior
• Frequent outbursts of aggression
• Repeated threats to run away
• Opposition to authority, truancy, theft or vandalism
• Strange thoughts, beliefs, feelings or unusual behaviors

Male Adolescent Sex Offender Program

This specialized sex offender program is for young men ages 13 to 17 who exhibit inappropriate behavior that may place the community at risk. At our residential center for teens, our clinicians provide extensive treatment and help families develop new problem-solving skills and better decision making. We work closely with families, schools and courts throughout the patient’s stay in adolescent psychiatric residential treatment.