Moderate Risk; Staff Secure; Females
TARGET POPULATION: AGES 12-18 [Staff Ratio 1:4]
- Maladaptive personality traits
- Chronic emotional dysregulation
- Youth who have experienced a broad range of traumatic events
- Victims of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse
- Social and interpersonal difficulties
- Poor coping skills
The STEDY program takes a trauma-informed approach to behavior modification. Residents in the program focus on managing difficult emotions without resorting to impulsive, destructive, suicidal or self-harming behaviors. Specially trained treatment staff help teach better coping skills, social skills, and boundaries for females with emotional difficulties in a structured therapeutic environment.