COPPER HILLS YOUTH CENTER is
interested in helping troubled teens make positive changes. Placing a teenager
in an adolescent residential treatment program is not an easy decision for a
parent and/or guardian to make. It is most often a very difficult and emotional
decision, but necessary in order to keep them safe and provide him or her with
a new beginning.
Each youth and their families have a
unique set of circumstances that are considered in our admission process. We
will request previous treatment records in order to determine if COPPER HILLS
YOUTH CENTER is the most appropriate program to help your teenager. If
our admissions committee does not believe that we are the best program, we will
make every effort to assist in providing you with other options.
Our Admissions Criteria are as follows:
The teenager must be 12 to 17 years of
age
The youth has been diagnosed with a
psychiatric disorder, has failed outpatient therapies and is exhibiting
behaviors such as, but not limited to:
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Lying, covert behavior, stealing
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Extreme oppositional or defiant responses to peers
and/or parents
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Explosiveness or uncontrolled rages of anger
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Evidence of substance abuse or dependency
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Inability to control aggressiveness, cruelty, and
physical acting out
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Impulsive behavior resulting in self harm
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Runaway behavior which gives evidence of
self-destructive behaviors
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Destruction of property
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Evidence of ritualistic behaviors
Exclusionary Criteria are as follows:
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Actively suicidal and/or homicidal requiring acute
hospitalization
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Unstable medical condition which might do irreversible
damage to the patient which requires intensive medical management.
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Actively psychotic or severely disorganized thought
processes requiring stabilization which precludes residential care.
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Those with primary mental retardation and/or
developmental disabilities.
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Severe organic brain disorders and non-ambulatory
individuals
