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Our Clinical Approach

We Treat Trauma in Order to Heal and Grow

Trauma Treatment Model

At New Haven, we have seen that each family is unique and so we will design a treatment plan just for your child and family. While we have many approaches we can utilize, there are some that we have found to be fundamental for all of our students and families. One of these aspects is our trauma treatment model which is twofold; "trauma-informed care" and “post-traumatic growth”.

Due to the ever-increasing prevalence of trauma exposure in our society, our treatment program assumes that everyone in our system — students, families, and employees — are experiencing some trauma-related stress. Our goal is to help your family and child obtain peace and healing, rather than continue living and acting from a state of mind associated with past traumatic events. We call this treatment process post-traumatic growth. We have discovered that we can not only heal from trauma, but we can become more empathic, compassionate, and emotionally stronger through the healing process.

Treatment Team

A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Approach to Treatment

The best hospitals, universities, and treatment centers harness the power of interdisciplinary teams to ensure that their work benefits from broad, deep, well-coordinated collaboration among all team members. Current outcomes research supports the theory that a high-functioning interdisciplinary team is exponentially more effective than the sum of its members’ individual efforts. At New Haven, we employ an advanced, research-supported interdisciplinary approach through our Treatment Team system.

Our Treatment Team consists of:
  • Clinical Director
  • Clinicians
  • Experiential Therapists
  • Nurse
  • Teachers
  • Residential Lead and Shift Supervisors

Our Treatment Teams represent every direct-care department. They meet each week to discuss every student and family's progress, Phase, and interventions. They analyze what’s working and what’s not working and make adjustments collaboratively based on a 360-degree perspective that no one department could achieve in isolation. These meetings provide every team member with critical information that spans each student’s experience at New Haven in all contexts, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This information, along with contextual information such as family functioning, medication regimen, physical health, and peer relations, helps our team make sound treatment and educational decisions and ensures the highest degree of safety.
As part of each treatment team discussion the student’s Master Treatment Plan is reviewed and, as necessary, adjusted to ensure that treatment decisions are coordinated, documented, and implemented.

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Other Therapeutic Modalities

Our students have often been through various levels of treatment including outpatient, IOP, PHP, a short-term program, or wilderness program prior to coming to New Haven. These approaches have often not included the “right approach” which is why our team has a variety of other therapeutic tools to ensure the highest level of therapeutic traction possible with individual students and their families.

Trauma Informed Care

There is too much to say here. Visit our Post Traumatic Growth to learn more about this topic.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.

Family Systems Therapy

Family systems therapy draws on systems thinking in its view of the family as an emotional unit. Systems thinking evaluates the parts of a system in relation to the whole. When systems thinking is applied to families, it suggests behavior is both informed by and inseparable from the functioning of one's family of origin.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.

Relationship Based Therapy

Relationship-based treatment is the use of the client-provider relationship to inspire, motivate and facilitate healthy adaptation in the life of a client. 

Mind-Body Healing

A group of healing techniques that enhance the mind's interactions with bodily function, to induce relaxation and to improve overall health and well-being.

Sensory Modulation

Sensory modulation involves supporting and guiding people in using senses such as sight, sounds, smells, touch, taste, and movement to self-manage and change emotional state.

Somatic Healing

Somatic experiencing is a form of alternative therapy aimed at treating trauma and stressor related disorders like PTSD. The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response.

EMDR

EMDR therapy is a phased, focused approach to treating trauma and other symptoms by reconnecting the traumatized person in a safe and measured way to the images, self-thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the trauma, and allowing the natural healing powers of the brain to move toward adaptive resolution.

Equine Assisted Therapy (EAGALA):

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, or EAP, is experiential in nature. Participants learn about themselves and others by participating in activities with our horses, and then discussing the feelings, behaviors, and patterns that these activities evoke. The sessions are guided by a licensed therapist and an EAGALA certified equine professional who work together to address specific treatment goals through the equine-assisted exercises. The therapists and equine specialist running these groups hold certificates from the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA).

Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapy uses activity-based experiences to teach life skills in areas such as relationships, communication, teamwork, self-esteem, self-awareness, accountability, and responsibility. Involving students and families in challenging and unpredictable tasks helps them think in new ways about old problems, identify what needs to be changed in their lives and relationships, and take the decisive steps to achieve more happiness and success in life.

Adventure Based Therapy

Adventure based therapy: Adventure therapy is a type of experiential therapy that uses challenging adventure activities to aid the therapeutic healing process. Adventure therapy helps promote healthy identity development, self-efficacy, grit, and a growth mindset.

Trauma Informed Yoga

Its goal is to help trauma survivors to develop a greater sense of mind-body connection, to ease their physiological experiences of trauma, to gain a greater sense of ownership over their bodies, and to augment their overall well-being.

Brainspotting (BSP)

Brainspotting (BSP) is a relatively new type of therapy designed to help people access, process, and overcome trauma, negative emotions, and pain, including psychologically induced physical pain.

Core Issue Model

An internally developed model to help individuals change the negative narrative that often drives the unhealthy emotions and unwanted behaviors to a more positive way of being.

Sandtray Therapy

Sand tray therapy allows a person to construct their own microcosm using miniature toys and colored sand. The scene created acts as a reflection of the person’s own life and allows them the opportunity to resolve conflicts, remove obstacles, and gain acceptance of self.

Relationship-Based Therapy

Because we wholeheartedly believe in the transformative nature of relationships, all therapy is relationship-based, not focused on behavioral modification. "The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change." - Dr. Bruce Perry

  • Individual

    Each student will have one 90 minute session with their individual therapist each week.

  • Adventure Based Therapy

    Each house of students will participate in an adventure based therapeutic activity every other Saturday.

  • Group

    Each student will participate in 5-90 minute group therapy sessions each week.

  • Family

    Each family will have a one 90 minute session each week via video conference.

  • Recreational Therapy

    Each house will participate in recreational therapy 5 times each week for 60 minutes. In these groups the girls will participate in team-based activities to help target the needs of the group and of the individual students.

Group Therapy

Each student will be involved in 4 therapeutic groups each week. Groups will be chosen based on each individual's needs.

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Group Therapeutic Practices

Trauma
Attachment/ Adoption
Substance Use/Recovery
Leadership
Resilience
Body Image
Greif/Loss
Emotional Regulation
Self-Esteem
Relationships
Equine Assisted Therapy
DBT
Art Group
Life Skills

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