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Keystone Newport News provides a comprehensive
program to children ages 11 to 18 that have been admitted to the Residential
Program encouraging them to understand their anger and to utilize strategies
that reduce the likelihood of acting aggressively.
The Treatment Track consists of the following
services:
- Screening at the time of admission.
- Treatment planning throughout treatment.
- Group Counseling.
- Education.
- Individual Counseling
- Art Therapy.
- Recreation Therapy.
The therapist will utilize proven strategies
that will help the resident manager to manage their anger more effectively:
- Relaxation Interventions: The
goal of implementing relaxation strategies is to reduce emotional and
physiological arousal. Techniques utilized will include deep
breathing, voice tone, and tempo changes, and progressive muscle
relaxation. Group role-play can be used to evoke emotion and can
allow for a safe place in which to practice relaxation skills.
- Cognitive Interventions:
Designed to reduce anger producing information an internal cognitive
prompting. Cognitive strategies are helpful in teaching the
resident how to think about a problem and begin to develop action
strategies. Cognitive restructuring will help to increase
awareness and acceptance of negative self-defeating pre-conscious
thoughts. Developing positive counter responses will be developed
and practiced. Practice will occur during group through role-play.
- Behavioral Interventions:
Will be utilized to change angry and aggressive behavior into more
socially acceptable behavior. Strategies that will be utilized
include: modeling, coaching, role-play, assertiveness training,
problem solving, negotiation, and interpersonal skills building.
- Art Therapy: Anger will be
explored through the use of art. The resident will begin to share
deep feelings that might be difficult to verbalize through art.
The therapist will begin to gain a greater understanding of issues and
through a relaxed atmosphere gain the resident's trust and confidence.
- Recreation Therapy:
Through the use of recreation and physical activity, aggressiveness and
anger can be reduced by utilizing various strategies. By engaging
in sport, health competition, cooperative activities, and leadership
development strategies the resident will begin to channel negative
self-defeating energy into more socially acceptable and healthy
behaviors.
- SAFE Program
- Leadership Club: By
channeling aggressive behaviors into positive traits such as developing
leadership skills the resident can start to gain confidence and help
mentor other residents that have more pronounced problems with
aggression. Residents that have attained Gold, Sapphire, and
Diamond levels of treatment will meet weekly and discuss ways in which
they can utilize positive behaviors to help their peers progress through
their treatment program.
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