Therapeutic Adolescent Services
The challenge of adolescence is to come out the other side with a foundation of strategies for successfully navigating adulthood. An arrest in adolescence provides an opportunity for vulnerable adolescent males and females to be provided with a solid and well-rounded foundation for making healthy, prosocial choices in challenging circumstances. NIC’s wide range of court-ordered treatments provides this foundation through dynamic therapists / trainers, who integrate the NIC Model with a practical, hands-on learning style and application in each program. The vast majority of NIC’s adolescent clients very quickly realize their arrest is an opportunity to fill in the missing pieces of their decision-making for a more successful outcome on the other side of predictable adolescent challenges.
Anger Management
Every adolescent has expressed their anger, at times, in a manner that was less than honorable. Our Anger Management program is a 12-24 week group therapy that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on stress management, impulse control, and interpersonal skills training to empower adolescent men and women to honor personal, interpersonal and legal boundaries.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Cognitive Restructuring
This program is for any adolescent who has violated legal boundaries and seeks a perceptual and behavioral set of tools to ensure prosocial decision-making in the future. Our Cognitive Restructuring program is a 20 week group therapy that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on Cognitive Restructuring concepts and tools to empower adolescent men and women with a prosocial internal framework for making sound decisions.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Diagnostic Evaluations
Anger Management Evaluations
Domestic Violence Evaluations
Mental Health Evaluations
Substance Abuse Evaluations
Our evaluative services incorporate the following tools to assess and provide a comprehensive treatment plan for the court-ordered adolescent:
- Biopsychosocial Inventory
- Clinical Interview
- Collateral Interview(s) as available
- Collateral Report(s) as available
- Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Health Disorders IV-TR (DSM) Criteria (Axis I, II, III, IV, V)
- Mental Status Examination
- Additional instruments are utilized based on type of diagnistic evaluation.
Domestic Violence
Our domestic violence program is designed to assist adolescents with the necessary tools to cease domestic abuse in all forms – emotional, mental, verbal, physical, sexual, and economic. Our adolescent Domestic Violence program is typically a 36-week group therapy that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on domestic violence assessment, treatment and containment.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Family Therapy
NIC’s Intensive In-Home Family Therapists and In-Office Family Therapists provide positive outcomes, utilizing aspects of the NIC Model, for preadolescents, ages eight through twelve (8-12) and adolescents, ages thirteen through seventeen (13-17), who demonstrate delinquent behavior. NIC’s goal is to improve psychosocial functioning for youth and their families, so that the need for out-of-home child placements is reduced or eliminated. A family centered, family systems approach to treatment is utilized. The treatment milieu includes the following components: family themes; appropriate boundaries; appropriate affective relational styles and how they create maladaptive behaviors; and rules, rewards, and consequences that motivate change. The families primary therapist is available for family crisis contact per contract established with the family.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Grief Therapy
Behind the temper, the substance abuse, and other poor choices, often lies an unresolved loss. At NIC we have found that, in many cases, the poor choices can be traced back to the moment an adolescent lost someone they loved. Provided the proper tools to embrace their grief honestly, and work through the many painful ‘tales’ associated with their loss, many of NIC’s adolescents have been able to set aside criminal thinking and self-sabotage, and embrace the life they left at the grave of their loved one. Our Grief Therapy program is a program that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on grief and loss research and application.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Life Skills
This program is designed to assist adolescents with the necessary tools to build rapport with the world around them, and ensure self-efficacy through practical implementation of appropriate attire, manners, hygiene, hand-shake, eye contact, phone mannerisms, budgeting, transportation strategies, diploma or GED attainment strategies, and enhanced interpersonal skill-building.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Marijuana Abstinence Group
This 20-week group therapy program is designed specifically to provide adolescents with the necessary tools and relapse to successfully address the underlying issues beneath the marijuana use in order to live marijuana-free. Our Marijuana Abstinence Group integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on effective marijuana abstinence treatment to provide individuals with the necessary tools and relapse prevention plans to maintain abstinence.
Mental Health
We tailor our unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) to to strategically facilitate adolescents struggling with adjustment, anxiety, depression, grief and/or trauma from compensating for deficiencies to accessing hidden and often forgotten strengths and unrealized potential. We build rapport with the individual in this process, and pace the therapeutic work based on the individual’s readiness to change.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Session
- Strategy Implementation outside of Session
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Substance Abuse Cognitive Restructuring
This 20-week group therapy program is designed specifically to address the Substance User, Substance Abuser, and Substance Dependent. Treatment is tailored to the client’s substance of choice: Alcohol, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Methamphetamines, Prescription Pills. This program integrates the Pathways to Self Discovery and Change curriculum with various components of NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) to provide individuals with the necessary tools and relapse prevention plans to maintain sobriety.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Substance Abuse Monitoring
NIC’s Urine Analysis (UA) Call-In Line is provided to ensure random monitoring. When adolescents call, they listen for their ‘Word of the Day,’ which determines whether they will be required to submit a UA or Breathalyzer that same day. NIC uses ‘Words’ such as ‘Resilience’, ‘Strength’, ‘Perseverance’, etc. to facilitate change at every encounter with NIC clients. All of our Urine Analysis’ are strictly monitored to ensure chain of command accuracy.