Residential Treatment
For those children and adolescents in need of longer-term care,
Michiana Behavioral Health offers the Residential Treatment Care
Program. This program provides a safe and structured environment,
essential behavioral treatment, and comprehensive programming.
Growth Enhancing Experiences
Therapy is encouraged for residents in order to build
self-esteem, develop a sense of trust, and encourage the feeling of
success. Michiana Behavioral Health provides the following for
residents:
- Team-building activities
- Educational and recreational outings
- Culturally sensitive programming
- Encouragement for spiritual growth
- Pleasant and attractive scenic environment
The Program for Children offers:
- Milieu, group, and family treatment
- Cognitive-behavioral, and activity therapy techniques
employed
- Treatment options for residents with aggressiveness, attachment
problems, sadistic behaviors, grief and loss issues, and impulse
control problems
- Skills training in aggression replacement, anger management,
social skills, activities for daily living, coping skills, and
communication skills
- Fully accredited in-house school program with licensed special
education teachers
- Treatment within a locked and secure facility
Admission Criteria:
- Ages 5-12
- Mood disorders
- History of multiple problems
- Physically aggressive behavior
- Attachment problems
- Sadistic behaviors
- Impulse control problems
- Grief & loss issues
- Victims of sexual, physical or emotional abuse
Program Components:
- Group therapy with social skills training and anger management
training
- Enriched environment
- Weekly community integration outings
- Educational and recreational outings
- Daily classroom instruction at our fully accredited on grounds
school
- Daily activity therapy groups
- Daily living skills
- Weekly family program
The Program for Adolescents offers:
- Milieu, group, and family treatment
- Cognitive-behavioral, expressive, and recreational therapy
techniques employed
- Treatment options for residents with chemical dependency,
conduct disorder, sexual abuse, gang history, teen pregnancy,
anxiety disorder, depression, self-mutilation, suicidal thoughts,
post-traumatic stress disorders, and obsessive compulsive
disorders
- Skills training in aggression replacement, anger management,
social skills, activities for daily living, coping skills, and
communication skills
- Fully accredited in-house school program with licensed special
education teachers
- Treatment within a locked and secure facility
Admission Criteria:
- Ages 13-19
- History of multiple problems
- Experience of repeated and/or failed psychiatric acute
treatment
- History of self-mutilating behavior
- Physically aggressive behavior
- History of fire setting
- Sexual abuse and/or sexual perpetration
- Persistent chemical dependency and/or abuse
- School failure
- History of running away
- Social isolation and poor social skills
- Oppositional-defiant behavior
- Average or low IQ
- Diagnosis of thought disorders, mood disorders, personality
disorders, sexual disorders, and behavioral disorders
- Teenage pregnancy
Program Components:
- Group psychotherapy seven days a week facilitated by a Masters
degreed clinician
- Weekly psychiatrist consultation
- Weekly family therapy with a Masters degreed clinician
- Communication with caseworkers/probation officers, schools, and
other service providers
- High School Credits earned in accordance with public school
system requirements
- GED preparation (For residents not currently enrolled in
school, Michiana Behavioral Health Center is a licensed GED
pre-test site)
- 12 Step based Substance Abuse groups
- Non-denominational voluntary spirituality groups facilitated by
an ordained minister
- Daily activity therapy groups
- Strength based behavioral level system
- Weekly family programming
- Daily health education groups facilitated by licensed
nurses
- Weekly community integration
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