As therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs and residential programs for struggling teens have grown and matured over the past thirty years, they have worked diligently to share best practices and to define quality safety and care standards. Inviting outside accreditation organizations like the Joint Commission along with the efforts of our peer organizations across the nation to work with individual states to craft appropriate legislation point to the commitment of the entire field to see the best outcome for as many students as possible.
Behavioral health care organizations must always wrestle with the fact that each program is not a perfect fit for every student. Likewise, even the best practices and the highest level of care may not result in the sought after transformation that brought the student into the program in the first place. All the aspects that come together form a therapeutic milieu must strive to provide the optimal setting for transformation while realizing that the results are never within our control.
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