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RedCliff Ascent provides a safe, evidence-based treatment environment for adolescents. They will be given the care and understanding they need to succeed. You can trust that you are providing them with the right therapeutic experience to help them heal and progress forward in life in a positive direction.
At RedCliff Ascent, therapy doesn’t just take place in an office with a therapist. Instead, it is a constant thing. Every minute of every day here is meant to challenge and improve. Your teen could be building a fire, hiking in the high desert, or carving a spoon; regardless of what the activity is, they are learning how to grow and change.
Wilderness therapy is a process. Healing takes time and effort, but with the right tools and the right treatment plan, recovery is possible!
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How the Outdoors Helps Teens
RedCliff Ascent uses the backdrop of nature as our catalyst for the effective treatment of teens struggling with mental health and behavioral issues. Your teen will attend a program with a treatment approach that is centered around outdoor behavior health, and this is centered around the healing power of nature.
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What Our Program Looks Like
Wilderness therapy provides an opportunity in which each participant is put in an environment where their every action has real-life consequences. Taken away from the home, teens come to understand the course of their actions and the reasoning behind the decisions they make. They become accountable for themselves and those around them. In the wilderness, they learn to confront what it is that is causing their struggles.
Through structured individual therapy sessions (and some spontaneous sessions), with the help of our therapists, your teen is able to root out unwanted behaviors and problems.
Group therapy is an integral part of RedCliff Ascent, with a primary goal to elicit genuine responses from teens’ changing environments. Interpreting their experiences in wilderness therapy is a first step on the recovery path. Some of the topics discussed include the development and maintaining of healthy relationships, problem-solving, and the understanding of behavior (psychoeducational evaluation).
Peer-led groups can also help participants give proper feedback to each other. When working so closely with others, participants can see how their actions affect those around them. Providing these assessments of one another allows for the growth of the individual and the group as a whole.
Family Therapy
Family Therapy allows parents to take part in the treatment process and make necessary changes to provide a family system their teen can come back to in order to thrive. The goal of family therapy is to bring families back together.
Is RedCliff Ascent The Right Fit?
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Conditions that RedCliff Ascent has had success in treating:
- Adoption issues
- Anger Issues
- Anxiety
- Aspergers
- At-Risk Youth/Risky Behaviors
- Attachment Issues
- Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Level 1
- Behavior Issues
- Body Image Issues
- Compulsive Disorder
- Cutting & Self-Harm
- Depression
- Divorce Conflict
- Emotional Disorders
- Family Issues
- Female Identity Empowerment
- Gender Identity Struggles
- Lack of Motivation
- Learning Disabilities
- Mood Disorders
- Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Personality Disorders
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Relational Issues
- Risky/Harmful Sexual Behaviors
- School Avoidance or Failure
- Self-Esteem Issues
- Substance Abuse
- Suicide Ideation
- Teen In Crisis
- Trauma
- Troubled Youth