(MRT) Moral Reconation Therapy is a cognitive Behavioral approach that helps our students develop a better understanding between the choices they make and their emotions. The MRT work book that many of our students work through is the Character Development workbook. This work book focuses on helping the individual develop will power and self-discipline. As they work through the work book they also have an opportunity to advance in the program. The MRT book is directly related to the steps in the program.

(DBT) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy has been helping our student population learn better emotional control and awareness. DBT focuses on learning four types of skills. The first, mindfulness skills helps our students know themselves better and have more control over their emotions and how to act in situations. The second set of skills, emotion regulation, will help them learn important information about their emotions and help them manage them better and have more positive emotions. Distress tolerance will help them get through crisis situations without making things worse by falling back on behaviors they may have used in the past. Finally, interpersonal effectiveness will help them develop healthier relationships with other people.

This group is one of the more open groups at WCA as there is no workbook, homework or outline. Every week one of our licensed therapists runs the “processing group.” These groups give your son/daughter the opportunity to bring up topics they desire to work through. Often these groups focus on conflict resolution, peer interactions, house issues, community interactions etc. At times, the clinician will bring a topic relating to current matters such as, home visits, Family Seminars, community stressors/interactions and behavioral issues in programs etc. We find that a lot of good work comes out of these less formal groups.