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6. What is the difference between your Intensive Family-Centered Regulatory Therapy and some of the other intensive programs offered across the country? |
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There is great variety in the approaches used in the various different intensive therapy programs. I choose to work in the family’s home rather than having them travel to me. My program is six months. Over the last couple of years I have been able to determine that it takes exactly six months of follow through for a family to move effectively into the path of healing. In this manner I’ve created a program to maintain my involvement throughout that phase. I place more emphasis on the whole family dynamics, and specifically, the parental dyad; while most approaches place their emphasis on the child and his behavior. My parenting recommendations for after the intensive will also be quite different from what you’ll find in other programs. The biggest difference is probably my theoretical foundation, which you can learn about in my writings on The Stress Model™. There is also a significant difference in the level of follow-up support I provide after the intensive, which I feel is very important.
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