Mental Health Residential Treatment Program

The goal of treatment at The Village is to achieve lasting change in an adolescent’s behaviors. The Village promotes the development of self-restraint, respect for authority, a healthy sense of self as part of a group or community, tolerance for tension or frustration, independence, and an ability to relate to others.

All programs are based on a cognitive behavioral model of treatment within a framework of a pro-social philosophy. By capitalizing on the adolescents’ strengths and exposing vulnerabilities that lay beneath their exterior we can assist them in developing adaptive coping mechanisms in a safe setting.
The Village ensures both around-the-clock supervision and an intense therapeutic experience. Adolescents begin by learning the rules of their new community and start to face and address the problems that brought them to The Village. Just as importantly, they begin to grasp that they are part of a group. These changes are key to treatment success in The Village program. The outdoor program helps individual patients come to terms with their problems within the context of a positive supportive peer group. This stage helps build upon the sense of belonging to a group. Patients in each cabin work together, learn to rely on one another, and begin to understand how to relate to each other.

Admission Criteria

Adolescents between the ages of 13-17 years old with an IQ of 70 or above with a primary mental health and/or substance abuse diagnosis.  The Village works with most private insurance plans as well as TennCare and North Carolina Medicaid.  The Village will work with your insurance plan to maximize benefits that are available.

Treatment Modalities

Individual Counseling: is employed for all clients. The approach is usually intensive, brief, problem specific, with short-term goals such as resolving a problem, making a decision, carrying out a procrastinated act, or reducing the effects of a symptom. The counseling may involve the client’s counselor prior to admission and/or the client’s counselor following discharge. This is encouraged to enhance continuity and consistency in care.

Group Counseling: is a focused group counseling session, which deals with issues identified by either clients or counselors. Emphasis is on emotional and behavioral issues. Each client receives group therapy on a daily basis.

Life Skills Group: This group consists of educational lectures/discussions using topics including identifying personal triggers, developing strategies to avoid triggers, identifying personal relapse dynamics and improving and utilizing support systems, stress management, coping skills, anxiety, anger, self esteem, and communication. Individuals will be given homework assignments as well as group assignments to improve the ability to deal with situations they encounter.

Family Therapy: is designed to assist family members and clients in reorienting and restructuring relationship systems. This component involves family members in family counseling sessions with the client’s therapist. These sessions are supportive experiences providing opportunities to share and question aspects of the client’s care relative to family interaction and/or intervention of the client’s illness. The goal of family therapy is to provide the family with opportunities to increase understanding and knowledge regarding the child’s behaviors, and to be assisted in enhancement of client and family stress management, communication, and leisure time skills. Client family members attend family therapy during the client’s treatment stay.