Upon enrollment each student is provided with a comprehensive assessment to identify his/her own unique issues and challenges as well as his/her strengths and abilities. Maintaining a small program makes it possible to adapt treatment to each students particular needs and circumstances.

In addition to adaptation, a blend of therapies are used throughout the program to reach each teen in a different way, increasing the opportunities teens have to learn, grow, and recover.

Treatment at Turnabout/Stillwater Academy involves the following therapeutic approaches

• Group Therapy
• Individual Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Rational Emotive Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Reality Therapy
• Equine Assisted Therapy
• 12 Step Approach
• Spiritual Principles
• Strength Based Approach

Clinical Intensity

We believe that consistent quality therapy is essential to success. On average teens will participate in four hours of one or more of the above types of therapy per day Mon-Sat.

This clinical intensity broadens the set of 'tools' teens have available to approach real world problems. These tools include problem solving, communication, taking responsibility, and overcoming poor thought processes to name a few.

Creating Individual Change

As students progress through the program, they learn to understand how their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors have affected them and those around them. This process takes time, endurance, commitment, patience, and support.

As students identify the issues driving their inappropriate behaviors and take responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and actions, they begin to discover their unique strengths and talents, allowing the ermergence of a stronger, healthier version of themselves.

Video: How Turnabout Helps Teenagers

Watch scenes from a parent training seminar as our executive director Lee Caldwell uses an untrained horse to illustrate how Turnabout helps teenagers become their best selves. Watch Video