A comprehensive alternative to residential treatment for adolescents and young adults.
This paper describes a treatment modality for adolescents and young adults who do not respond successfully to treatment within the family context. A comprehensive therapeutic program is implemented in the open community, providing benefits of residential care while avoiding many of the drawbacks. Five key components are discussed: creating individualized programs using community resources; effecting a complete separation from parents; maximizing autonomy and self-reliance; facilitating a corrective family experience; and capitalizing on transference in intensive individual psychotherapy, which is enhanced when a married couple functions as the treatment team. Suggestions for implementing this model are discussed and advantages and limitations are cited.
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Pepperdine University, Culver City, CA 90230.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000639:trends*