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- Jun, 1993 Issue #22 |
THREE SPRINGS CONTINUES EXPANSIONS
Amy Sobieszczyk
Huntsville, Alabama
205-880-3339 (FAX 205-880-9569)
Three Springs continues
to expand services with two new residential programs in Georgia,
that are currently either in the building or negotiation process.
These include an outdoor therapeutic setting and an indoor
secure setting at different locations. Possible services at
these programs are treatment for female sexual abuse victims,
dual diagnoses residents with low IQ, learning disabilities,
female sexual offenders and male sexual offenders with low
IQ. Plans have yet to be finalized, but we hope to have all
services in Georgia opened before the end of 1993.
There also will be a short term
Therapeutic Summer Program this summer at the Trenton,
Alabama and Centerville, Tennessee facilities.
Outdoor Adventure Programming and nature study will be special
elements of the therapeutic process. The residents will learn
to appreciate the environment and experience challenges which
foster individual and group development. Adventure expeditions,
like backpacking and canoeing, will offer significant opportunities
for positive personal growth.
In addition, The Psychology
Center of Atlanta has become a reality. Providing outpatient
services, the center can also serve people needing additional
testing for admissions into inpatient programs. The clinical
director is John Stuart Currie, Ph.D., and the administrator
is Rosemary Tippett, M.A. Treatment modalities include
individual, group, families and couples, inpatient and outpatient.
The Center also provides a variety of assessment services,
from a one-session interview, through a variety of psychological
tests including neuropsychological evaluation. One service
which the Center provides is triage for families and adolescents
who are considering residential treatment but are not yet
ready for that move. Family psychotherapy and assessment is
used to help families process their mixed feelings about sending
a youth away from home for treatment.
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© 1993, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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