Academy At Swift River
Counseling Services
Swift River has achieve national recognition as one of the top boarding schools with its therapeutic curriculum. It is committed to therapeutic practices that are grounded in solid theories of human development and change.
The Academy at Swift River follows the Life Phase Program™ - predicated on a well-researched model of how people change, and also known as the Transtheoretical Model by Prochaska et al.
Students - Adolescent Therapy
- Individualized goal-attainment approach based on needs assessment
- Weekly individual counseling session
- Weekly treatment groups which includes Team Group, Caseload Group, and a Theme group - i.e. adoption, mood management, or grief and loss groups
- Substance abuse evaluation, motivational-enhancement treatments, mutual help groups, and relapse prevention Life Phase Seminars that are experientially based to promote and facilitate the change processes associated with specific phases
- Periodic topic-focused parenting workshops
- Medication consultation and management
Parent/Family Education and Support
Team Parent Groups
Team parent groups are held on a rotating basis. The purposes of these groups are:
- To increase collaboration between parents and the staff team comprised of counselors, teachers, and residential staff.
- To assist parents to provide mutual aid to one another.
- To improve relationships among family members through talk and non-verbal methods such as adventure-based work.
Multi-Family Group Seminars
Multi-Family Group Seminars will cover a variety of topics. The seminars provide information to families about program their family member is experiencing. The seminars teach basic information about stages of change, family dynamics, information about the brain, and basic sociometry including the social atom. The first of these seminars is the Parent Seminar #1 which will occur every three months.
Teenage counseling at Swift River is based upon the following books
All books listed below link to further information from Amazon.com
- Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
- Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
- Parenting From the Inside Out
- A General Theory of Love
- Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
