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http://www.www.wracademy.com im cutting and posting this crap as it is so obviously abusive, my feeling is, that this website will be revised shortly
West Ridge Academy Philosophy
. Connections with family, good friends and God form the foundation for a fulfilling life. Accordingly, we strive to help our students find these connections. While we do not proselyte to our students, we encourage them to bring the best from their beliefs about God and seek out a meaningful relationship with that God. A connection with Deity can be life-changing for the students we serve.
We also believe that family relationships share central importance in a child’s life. Those relationships often need significant repair when a student is placed at West Ridge. Students are placed at West Ridge not simply because there is something wrong exclusively with them. Each student comes from a family that has likely participated with him/her in maladaptive patterns. The family needs treatment too. Family members need to work on interpersonal issues, if only to learn how to help support progress the student is making in our program. Through the years, we have found that it is imperative to involve a student’s parents/guardian in family therapy in addition to the individual counseling the student receives. In addition to personal and group sessions, each student placed in our program will have regular family therapy sessions to work with and strengthen the family.
While at the Academy, your child will live in a cottage with mentoring adults. Each student is placed in a nurturing home
where trained home parents will provide an atmosphere of learning and accountability. Our model, utilizing home parents and an unmarried live-in who make up the home staff, is meant to partially resemble the family environment of home.why not just get them a blow up doll mom and leave it at that what credentials do these gueards haveThe students who enter our program typically lack some understanding relative to honesty and integrity. We know that for them to function in society it will be necessary for them to have a commitment to honesty in all their dealings. We teach our students honesty through a method called the agreement process.
Put simply, the agreement process is the process of making and keeping agreements in all aspects of daily life and interpersonal interaction. Students are taught how to make agreements and encouraged to keep them.
The agreement process coupled with natural and logical consequences helps our students move toward integrity. Natural and logical consequences, whether positive or negative, become teachers for our students. Students make choices, see what happens with their choices, and then learn if they made good choices or negative choices. It is a beautiful and simple method of instruction that helps our students gain insight, take responsibility, and grow.
What to Expect the First Month
It is during this period that both the student and family get accustomed to the program, have questions answered, and begin the therapeutic process.
Common Pitfalls That Impede the Therapeutic Process
Parent Reactions
Parents can get defensive when therapists ask them to look at their own issues. Here are some common defensive behaviors parents may want to assess in themselves:
· Blaming the child for everything and not looking at parental contribution to the problem.
• Blaming the therapist for not being a miracle worker.
• Projecting parental issues on others, including Academy staff.
• Playing the victim, “everybody is against me.â€
