How We Treat Kids
Custom Treatment Plans
Care for children affected by trauma
Trauma can shatter a child’s sense of security and disrupt healthy brain development
Children who have experienced trauma or who live in stress-inducing environments often have difficulty accessing the part of their brain that controls reasoning and logic. Under stress, they may become aggressive, argumentative, or impulsive.
Alexander Youth Network uses the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™(NMT) in our trauma care. This model was developed by internationally-regarded neuroscience expert Dr. Bruce Perry. NMT integrates core principles of neurodevelopment and traumatology to inform our work with children, families, and the communities in which they live.
Our approach to trauma-informed care helps children build new pathways around the roadblocks in their brain. Children complete a comprehensive brain metric that helps our clinicians understand:
- A child’s medical, family, and social history,
- Past and present experiences,
- Growth and development,
- Presenting problems and previous treatment plans
Results from the comprehensive brain metric are combined with NMT metrics to identify developmental delays due to trauma. Our trauma care experts then use this information to create a custom treatment plan for each child.
Our model provides the highest level of personalization and intervention for children who have experienced trauma.
Relational, relevant, and rewarding, with lasting results
Therapeutic, educational and enrichment activities are tailored to the needs and strengths of the individual.
While treatment activities may look and feel like play, they are purposeful and effective. Children gain the tools to control their impulses, emotions, and thoughts and maintain healthy relationships through treatment such as:
- Therapeutic drumming to lower stress
- Swimming to reduce depression
- Yoga to teach self-regulation
- Pottery for creative expression
- Pet therapy helps children build relationships and develop empathy
Through the Alexander Model of Care, the child is the center of the therapeutic process.
Alexander offers a variety of therapeutic services and programs to support a child’s treatment plan.
Our trauma care experts are available to help.
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Alexander Youth Network is passionate about helping children overcome their mental health challenges.
