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Pine Ridge Behavioral Health is a 4 to 6 month program designed and dedicated to helping at-risk youth and their families disrupt negative living patterns and habits. We accomplish this by creating a therapeutic environment while demonstrating honesty, integrity, accountability, and a consistent commitment to the recovery process.

We strive to build relationships that both motivate and hold youth accountable for their behavior while targeting risk factors that predict crime and can be changed. We tailor interactions and interventions to youth characteristics such as motivation, learning style, and intelligence, making it more likely for them to think, talk, and act in prosocial ways. 

Pine Ridge Behavioral Health uses Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Functional Family Therapy (FFT). However, our primary means of treatment are Aggression Replacement Training (ART) and Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT), used to address the specific needs and targeted risk factors of the population we serve best.

What Pine Ridge Behavioral Health Does and How

  • Treatment outcomes proven to decrease risk factors

  • Outcomes decrease criminogenic factors

  • Focus on education helps Residents regain lost ground

  • Positive outcomes in behavior reformation. 

  • Use of the YOQ to track improvement.  

  • Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT)

  • Aggression Reduction Training (ART)

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  • CARF Certified. Therapeutic Services 

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Youth at Pine Ridge work with an experienced team of professionals. Intensive therapeutic services begin the day the student is admitted. We focus on cognitive and behavioral changes so you can have your son back.

Healing Together.

Group Therapy

Group therapy sessions at Pine Ridge are a powerful arena for gaining insight into how each student's behaviors and attitudes affect others. Students gain a positive sense of peer support during group therapy sessions. 

Group therapy involves learning new skills such as distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness skills from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). DBT is a way for clients to learn how to gain awareness of and learn to accept their emotions. Thinking errors are discussed in a Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) format, and experiential activities in a group setting help the youth learn and apply skills in a learning by doing manner.  

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Family Therapy

Family Therapy Sessions are conducted biweekly by the same therapist who provides individual therapy. The purpose of family therapy is to create opportunities for the family system to heal and change. Family therapy typically provides the family with opportunities to learn more effective skills, rehearse new behaviors, and give/receive feedback on home visits. Therapists assist the family in preparing behavioral contracts for the student's return home. 

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." — Margret Mead-

Therapy That Works.

Aggression Replacement Therapy Model (ART)Pine Ridge is focused on the Aggression Replacement Therapy Model (ART), which is designed for assaultive, hostile adolescents who pose severe, disruptive behaviors in their communities. ART is designed to t…

Aggression Replacement Therapy Model (ART)

Pine Ridge is focused on the Aggression Replacement Therapy Model (ART), which is designed for assaultive, hostile adolescents who pose severe, disruptive behaviors in their communities. ART is designed to teach youths to control their impulses and take perspectives other than their own. Our focus is to reduce aggression and violence among adolescents by providing them with opportunities to learn positive social skills in place of aggressive behavior. ART provides cognitive, affective, and behavioral interventions to build social skills, anger control, and moral reasoning skills.

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Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT)Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT) is the premier treatment modality for individuals who are mandated to complete treatment because of legal involvement resulting from high-risk and anti-social behaviors. Designed to help…

Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT)

Moral Recognition Therapy (MRT) is the premier treatment modality for individuals who are mandated to complete treatment because of legal involvement resulting from high-risk and anti-social behaviors. Designed to help individuals make prosocial decisions based on an empathetic understanding of others, MRT teaches clients through homework and group process over a 12 module course.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Pine Ridge utilizes a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) approach with the students who struggle to use effective coping strategies. DBT is an empirically based treatment model that has proven effective in treating …

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Pine Ridge utilizes a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) approach with the students who struggle to use effective coping strategies. DBT is an empirically based treatment model that has proven effective in treating such students. DBT students are empowered with a portable skill set that enables them to improve the quality of their life and sustain these changes into adulthood. DBT emphasizes a non-judgmental, validation approach to treating students and their families.

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Essential Skill building Skill building is a primary treatment method that strives to teach alternative skills and behavior to youth engaging in problem behavior. Youth are taught alternative behaviors that are to be used instead of the problem…

Essential Skill building 

Skill building is a primary treatment method that strives to teach alternative skills and behavior to youth engaging in problem behavior. Youth are taught alternative behaviors that are to be used instead of the problem behaviors, which lead to the alternative behavior being reinforced. This process requires the youth to identify problem behaviors and their triggers, including vulnerabilities as well as certain settings and events. Youth identify, script, and practice responses to their triggers. Staff become aware of client triggers and their response scenarios in order to prompt the youth when needed. For example, when a youth is responding to a trigger in a negative or non-practiced way, the staff will then prompt the youth to remember their script and their practiced responses.

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