Counseling Services

The therapeutic curriculum at ASR has helped us achieve national recognition as one of the top boarding schools. Our commitment to therapeutic practices that are grounded in solid theories of human development and change and in the best available evidence is a signature of the clinical model at ASR. Our Life Phase Program™ is predicated on a well-researched model of how people change that is known as the Stages of Change model by Prochaska et al.

All Students Receive:

• Individualized goal-attainment approach based on needs assessment
• Weekly individual counseling session
• Weekly treatment groups which includes Team Group, Caseload Group, and a Theme group - i.e. adoption, mood management, or grief and loss groups
• Substance abuse evaluation, motivational-enhancement treatments, mutual help groups, and relapse prevention Life Phase Seminars that are experientially based to promote and facilitate the change processes associated with specific phases
• Periodic topic-focused parenting workshops
• Medication consultation and management

Families Receive:

• Parent/Family Education and Support

Team Parent Groups

Team parent groups are held on a rotating basis. The purposes of these groups are:

1. To increase collaboration between parents and the staff team comprised of counselors, teachers, and residential staff.
2. To assist parents to provide mutual aid to one another.
3. To improve relationships among family members through talk and non-verbal methods such as adventure-based work.

Multi-Family Group Seminars

Multi-Family Group Seminars will cover a variety of topics. The seminars provide information to families about program their family member is experiencing. The seminars teach basic information about stages of change, family dynamics, information about the brain, and basic sociometry including the social atom. The first of these seminars is the Parent Seminar #1 which will occur every three months.

Multi-Family Group Seminars are based upon the following books:

• Changing For Good, by Prochaska, Norcross and DiClemente
• Extraordinary Relationships, by R. Gilbert, M.D.
• Parenting from the Inside Out, by D. Siegel.
• A General Theory of Love, by T. Lewis et al.
• Parenting Teens with Love & Logic, by Cline and Fay