The staff at Right Step’s adolescent drug rehab in Dallas has become Tier-One certified in collaborative problem-solving. This makes Right Step the nation’s first residential addiction treatment center for teens to implement collaborative problem-solving as part of its approach to adolescent recovery.
Collaborative problem-solving is an innovative model for working with teens with social, emotional or behavioral challenges. Rather than viewing struggling teens as unmotivated or manipulative and attempting to motivate them through reward or punishment, collaborative problem-solving addresses teens’ challenges by teaching them the skills they lack.
Dr. Stuart Ablon, one of the founders of collaborative problem-solving and the Director of Think:Kids in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, describes collaborative problem-solving as an evidence-based, trauma-informed, strength-based and neurobiologically grounded model that empowers youth and the family voice. The approach has been used effectively in residential treatment facilities, schools, juvenile detention facilities and inpatient psychiatric units, among other settings.
“Even if teens want and intend to behave in certain ways, they may lack the skills to follow through,” said Nathan Bradley, LMSW, the adolescent program coordinator at Right Step Dallas. “Rather than trying to force compliance, we work with them to fill the skills gaps so that they can rebuild their relationships and lives while staying clean and sober.”
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