Montcalm’s clinical model and focus on positive, long-term behavior change are woven seamlessly throughout the Montcalm experience. It begins with the living experience itself. Small groups of students live together in a family-like cottage setting where they build friendships, self-confidence and life skills. Cottage mates attend school together, have fun together and support one another in group therapy sessions five days a week under the guidance of highly qualified and compassionate clinicians. It’s an environment that allows students to build a positive outlook. It also builds empathy through service learning opportunities. We know that students who are engaged in outside volunteer activities build a stronger foundation of social interest and their own selfesteem as they see their importance to the wider community.
Service Learning Project
OUR APPROACH At Montcalm School, individual treatment and educational plans are detailed, individualized and outcome-based. Each student is evaluated through a series of strength-based assessments and observations that include input from the student, family members and other important stakeholders in the student’s life. Benchmarks and goals are established at the start and measured at critical stages.
Developmental & Environmental Assessments With the student as the primary source of data, a sequenced examination of life events and behavioral responses helps reveal the private, inner logic driving the child’s behavior and identifies personal strengths and environmental supports around which to build specific interventions for healing, growth and resilience. Common primary diagnoses include: • ADD/ADHD • • • • • • • •
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Anxiety Disorders Asperger’s Syndrome Depressive Disorders Mood Disorders Oppositional Defiant Disorder Pervasive Developmental Disorder Reactive Attachment Disorder Secondary diagnosis of substance abuse
Parents – Montcalm Experience
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