| News
& Views
- Dec, 1992 Issue |
Navajo Pines
An Outdoor Residential Treatment Program
Dave Goodwin
800-962-4673
LaVerkin, Utah
Opening its doors late last summer and
licensed as a residential treatment center in the state of Utah, Navajo
Pines combines traditional therapies with outdoors experiential processes.
It is close to Zions National Park. "Hidden in a desert valley, next
to a small stream and shaded by an oasis of trees is the 15 acre facility
complete with 105 ROPES course activities. Lodging includes a camp-like
setting where adolescents sleep in tepees or outside under the stars,
attend to their personal needs and laundry in a new indoor facility
and cook their own meals outdoors, all while supervised by qualified
counselors." The six to eight week course of treatment includes "daily
experiential therapy utilizing the ROPES course and group processing;
bi-weekly individual therapy; weekly family therapy scheduled as a conference
call between all significant family members; and bi-monthly medication/psychiatric
management." Academics are maintained by "an independent study program
that interfaces our adolescents with their home schools." The assignments
"integrate our program's emotional and spiritual focus with that of
the home school's academic assignments." Parents are invited to spend
the last two days of the program on site "intensely working with their
adolescent and his/her therapist in preparing for the return home."
They estimate about 90% of the adolescents will return home, and will
work with the remaining 10% to help the parents find the proper follow-up
program.
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