When you send your child to a therapeutic boarding school, you hope that he will receive lots of therapy. After all, that’s what the school is called, so you expect that it will live up to its name. But you might not realize the different kinds of therapy that are available for your teen at a Utah boarding school.
Various Therapies to Help Your Child
Your child will benefit from several kinds of therapy that can help your struggling teen, including private, group, family and experiential therapy. Each one helps your son in unique ways so that he addresses the issues that brought him to our facility and matures in the process.
Private therapy includes at least 90 minutes of counseling per week, which might be broken up over several sessions or completed at the same time. During group therapy, boys are divided according to their specific needs. They gather in groups that discuss the challenges they face, including:
Grief
Self-esteem
Abandonment
Abuse
Addiction
Anger
Relationships
Trauma
And other issues as needed.
Because of technology, family therapy often includes sessions via Skype or uses other electronic means to connect. When it’s convenient, parents can come to the facility to meet with their child and counselors and work through difficult issues together. The focus is on parents constructively working with their teen to instill solid values that he can carry with him into adulthood.
Experiential therapy includes various service projects every other week at nationally recognized organizations that work with cancer victims, the homeless, the environment and more. Your son will learn to look outside himself and recognize that others in the world are struggling, some with much worse problems than he faces.
Recreation Therapy
The most often overlooked form of therapy is recreation – good, old-fashioned play in the great outdoors. Society as a whole, including teens, have gradually moved indoors and do not spend as much time outside as they did in previous generations. The beautiful Utah landscape provides the perfect scenic backdrop for your son to begin to rediscover nature. While most people recognize the benefits of exercise, you might not realize how much good, clean fun can do for your teen. Our Utah therapeutic boarding school provides the following options in recreation therapy for your teen as he enjoys the beautiful mountains and vistas:
4-wheeling
River rafting
Camping
Boating
Water or snow skiing
Snowboarding
Hiking or
Rappelling.
These experiences provide children with all kinds of benefits, such as:
Burning energy
Providing a healthy physical outlet
Offering success and his skill level develops
Positive interactions with peers
Problem-solving skills
Improved interpersonal communication
Teamwork
Natural ways to fight obesity, anger and depression
Self-esteem
A sense of pride and accomplishment in their efforts
Organizational skills
Conflict resolution and
More.