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Odyssey House Texas Is An Adolescent Therapeutic Community
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Our
therapeutic community is a highly structured treatment program that goes
beyond habilitation and provides an environment that includes:
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A positive peer community that
provides teaching tools, feedback and support
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A total learning setting where every
rule, activity, intervention and interaction is a learning experience
that builds on the others
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The development and mastery of
delayed or missing basic developmental task
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A system that implements safety,
consistency, trust, mutual respect, personal accountability and
responsibility
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The daily activities of living in a
cooperative community to learn healthy communication skills, family
dynamics, and independent living skills
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A level system that correlates
responsibility with privileges, and natural consequences that are age
appropriate and educational
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The time necessary to practice and
master newly learned skills and see themselves in a safe simulation of
a new life
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The building of confidence and
competence, capable of making decisions without being dependent on
other people or substances to meet new challenges
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The responsibility to pass on what
is learned and give back to the community
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A
treatment team of multidisciplinary professionals who guide and teach
to facilitate the learning environment, while addressing the scars and
wounds of past hurts and present life circumstances
A Therapeutic Community
Heals, Teaches And Prepares For The Future
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