Creative Alternatives offers a wide range of mental health services that support its residents’ personal growth, increases their personal, social and life skills, promotes their emotional and behavioral stability and help encourages each resident to reach their placement goal of family reunification or lower level of care such as a foster home or successful emancipation.
STRTP Mental Health Services:
Counseling Center
Creative Alternatives Counseling Center provides outpatient individual, family and group psychotherapy for children and adolescents who are placed in the Creative Alternatives Residential and Foster Family Programs. Through a therapeutic, supportive, caring environment and a capable therapist, the individual can develop the necessary trust and skills to deal with and work through those emotional and/or behavioral problems that are impacting their success. It is the goal that every resident will develop internal self-regulation and control, take responsibility for their actions and try new solutions to old problems.
Therapeutically, an eclectic approach is used to treat the individual needs of each resident. The Counseling Center has a goal of offering as many tools as possible to help each resident have the opportunity for success. Some of these may include weekly groups on Anger Management and Drug Prevention and Abuse.
Psychiatric Treatment
Each resident has access to psychiatric services by our consulting, board-certified child psychiatrist. After the intake assessment, residents are seen on a regular basis for medication and behavioral reviews. Services are provided to Creative Alternatives offices located in Turlock and Merced.
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