Treatment Team: The Valleyhead model for care and treatment for our girls is based on a fully integrated interdisciplinary treatment team. This model ensures that all aspects of a girl’s life are fully reflected in the treatment service plan as well as in the daily program. Interdepartmental teams consist of a student’s clinician, her two teachers and her residential staff. This group provides a structure that ensures a concentrated focus on her needs and goals. Weekly team meetings provide the forum in which girls are discussed in detail by the team, which then generates specific goals and interventions. The Individualized Service Plan is developed at an interdisciplinary meeting with input from the family, relevant outside agencies, and the girl herself and is finalized by her clinician. This document provides the starting point from which goals and objectives are targeted and refined over the course of treatment.

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