Three Springs Inc
Huntsville, AL

TSI Offers More Ways to Help Troubled Children Discover Lasting Solutions

Debra Dombrowski
Communications Manager
256-880-3339

August 17, 2006

In order to best serve clinically complicated children, treatment programs must continually make adjustments and improve services. To this end the treatment team at Three Springs Paint Rock Valley now offers individual therapy and specialty group therapy in addition to traditional group process treatment.

Paint Rock Valley staff members have developed a system to maximize the affect of individual treatment by slowly introducing this concept as residents become more open to change. Masters level therapists meet with all residents upon admission and then meet monthly to begin the work of individual counseling. These sessions focus primarily on acceptance of placement with the program and on family communication.

As residents make progress they meet with the therapist for individual counseling every other week. These sessions focus on more complicated clinical issues including depression, bipolar disorder and abuse survival. The treatment team continually monitors progress and increases the level and frequency of individual sessions as needed.

While the Paint Rock Valley boys and girls programs continue to offer group therapy around the issues of substance use/abuse and abuse survivorship, they now also offer specialty groups addressing adoption issues, grief issues, bipolar disorder, and separation and divorce issues. Additional groups may be added depending on the population of the program at any given time. This system allows the treatment team to easily adjust to the needs of the current population.

Based in Huntsville, Alabama, Three Springs is a nationally recognized leader in youth services. Founded in 1985 to help adolescents experiencing emotional, behavioral and learning issues develop positively, Three Springs provides therapy and education in a structured environment. A trusted and respected resource for helping adolescents deal with serious problems, Three Springs now operates year-round programs on more then twenty campuses in ten states.