Residential Treatment
Spofford provides intensive residential treatment for young children with severe emotional and behavioral problems stemming from physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and mental health disorders.
The children’s problems are so intense that they cannot be treated in an outpatient or community setting. Very often children who come to Spofford have seen numerous counselors, been treated with an array of medications, and have experienced short stays in psychiatric hospitals with minimal results.
Residential treatment at Spofford involves families and staff connecting, learning, and working together in an effort to address each child’s emotional and physical needs in a way that yields insight, support, behavioral change and the ability to successfully return to a family setting.
Residential services include:
- 24-hour structured therapeutic environment
- Individual, family, and group therapy
- Education services on and off campus
- Psychological and neuropsychological testing
- Psychiatric evaluation and consultation
- Medication management
- Nursing services
- Art therapy
- Pastoral care
- Play and recreation therapies
- In-home family support
Admission Guidelines
Children admitted to Spofford must:
- Need 24-hour care in a safe, closely supervised environment and do not require psychiatric hospitalization
- Be unable to be safely managed in a less restrictive setting
- Be medically stable and physically able to participate in treatment
- Have family and/or a defined support system (including state agencies) available and willing to participate in treatment
- Appear to be treatable in a residential setting and have behavior that significantly interferes with social, educational, and or family functioning
