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Adolescent Inpatient DBT
Based Program
The Ridge now utilizes
elements of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for its inpatient adolescent males and females.
The most important
goal of The Ridge's DBT based adolescent program is its focus
on helping patients create lives worth living. This program gives
patients the opportunity to achieve those lives. The Ridge's
program does this by helping adolescents learn techniques that:
- Move them from
being out of control of one's behavior to being in control.
- Move them from
being emotionally shut down to experiencing emotions fully.
- Helps them
work on building an ordinary life and solving ordinary life
problems.
- Moves them
from incompleteness to completeness/connection.
Who Benefits from this approach:
The Ridge's
DBT principle based program addresses the needs of adolescent
patients who are experiencing:
-
depression/suicidal thoughts
- urges to
commit suicide/suicide attempts
- borderline
personality disorder
- eating
disorders
- mood disorders
- substance
abuse issues
- anger
management issues
- anxiety
disorders
- panic
disorders
- post-traumatic
stress disorder
- bipolar
disorder
The intensive treatment program first promotes stabilization and then
focuses on enhancing thinking and behavioral skill sets. Strategies
used include skills groups, individual, group, and family therapy. Adolescents in the
program will attend school at The Ridge during the year with
certified teachers of the Fayette County
School System.
For free and
confidential assessments 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
859-269-2325 or 800-753-4673
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