Family Program
When parents first realize their teen has a problem with depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorder, drugs or alcohol, the family is often in crisis and find it difficult to accept that mental health or drug abuse has affected their family. Family members can often face feelings of shame, blame, and resentment. Relationships in the entire family are affected by the abuse and often create a feeling of family “wreckage”. As a result, family involvement in treatment and on-going recovery is critical to success. The more family members are involved and engaged in the treatment process, the greater the likelihood the adolescent and the family heal, recover, and succeed in treatment.
Tailored Family Treatment
Dedicated to the standard of personalized healthcare, Newport Academy approaches residents and their family members as unique with varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses. Newport Academy tailors each teen’s treatment program to ensure that both the teen and the family receive the individualized and familial treatment necessary to restore the teen to the family, and restore the entire family together in a spirit of recovery and hope.
Newport Academy anchors treatment in the context of the family in order to increase the effectiveness of treatment and recovery for both the teen and the family. Families are involved from the beginning when teens are first assessed and the individual treatment plan is developed. Family members participate in the assessment process and are asked to complete a comprehensive Family Assessment. The information gathered from diagnostic interviews frames the family member’s involvement and is integrated into the teen’s treatment plan. The family treatment plan is updated throughout the teen’s stay as treatment needs do change.
“Through Newport Academy’s family program, we learned an enormous amount about substance abuse and eating disorders, and most importantly, gained the tools to be a family in recovery. Our daughter’s problems had affected us, as well as her siblings, and our situation required new knowledge and new ways of thinking in order to be a healthy family again.”
-Jason M., parent of 15 year old
Parent Intensive Program
Newport Academy realizes that family involvement during treatment is essential. Throughout the teen’s treatment stay, families are involved at every level. During the first week, parents attend the Parent Intensive Program which involves a full day of therapy with Newport Academy’s Clinical Director and other clinical team members. These parent-only meetings, allow parents to openly express what they have been experiencing as a result of their teen’s behaviors.
Weekly Individual Family Therapy Sessions and the Saturday Family Program
Following the Parent Intensive, and throughout the remainder of the teen’s treatment, parents and teens are involved in scheduled individual therapy sessions with various clinicians at Newport Academy. Additionally, parents and siblings are expected to attend the all day Saturday Family Program which begins with attendance at a parent-only Al-Anon meeting in the community accompanied by a Newport Academy staff member. This is followed by a Multi-Family Process Group and Family Education meetings on campus at Newport Academy. The Saturday Family Program is an all day program and Newport Academy utilizes some of the most acclaimed clinical consultants in the substance abuse and teen mental health treatment field to facilitate the Family Education groups every Saturday.
Family Intensive Program (FIP)
Approximately two weeks prior to discharge, teens, siblings, and parents participate in a three day Family Intensive Program held on campus at Newport Academy. This program is facilitated by Newport Academy’s Clinical Director and other key clinicians and is tailored specifically for individual families and their needs. Typically, the Family Intensive Program is held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the fifth week of treatment.