Your daughter can change and heal easier in a loving environment. New Haven's environment teaches her how to give and receive love and respect. We encourage her to express this love and respect for her family, employees, peers, society, animals and plants.

Your daughter's locus, or center point, of control is central to how she believes she can manage her own life. If she believes that she is being controlled externally (i.e, by family, luck, a perpetrator or society) she will lack a sense of personal control in her life. New Haven is dedicated to helping your daughter change her locus of control from external to internal, thus empowering her to make positive changes in her life and in the lives of those around her. Such a change encourages responsibility, accountability and empowerment.

The importance of the family system is evident in New Haven's treatment philosophy. We realize that long-lasting change in your daughter only occurs when your family can change in unison with her.

The loss of self-esteem has much to do with the poor, selfish choices a person has made in the past. Ineffective attempts at feeling better about oneself can include the use of justification, rationalization, and other defense mechanisms that lead to depression, anxiety, and other emotional and behavioral disorders. The more a person reaches out to others in a helpful way, the more she will discover her own worth and sense of purpose.

True happiness and peace are found when your daughter's behavior is in line with her values. Your daughter is encouraged to develop or remember her own value system and align her life with those values.

We believe each human life is sacred. A person's spirituality - or sense of connectedness to something divine - is not only her essence of moral decision making but can also give her genuine purpose in life.