STEDY

(SPECIALIZED TREATMENT FOR EMOTIONALLY DYSREGULATED YOUTH)

Moderate Risk; Staff Secure; Females

• 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.