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Our
Programs
Pennsylvania Clinical Schools (PCS) is the largest residentially
based program for adolescent sexually abusive behavior in the
Philadelphia metropolitan area. PCS has 94 beds with three
developmentally based units for our Juvenile Sex Offender (JSO)
Program. PCS has adapted the Standards of Practice developed by the
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) as a
cornerstone for its sex offender specialty services. The theoretical
framework of the program assimilates the philosophical assumptions
of the National Adolescent Perpetrator Network for treating
sex-offending adolescents with the values and principles of
established treatment protocols. PCS focuses on the strengths that
each client presents with and helps them to realize their potential
while assisting with specialized skills.
Our Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) has 20 beds with two
developmentally based units. Many of the client’s referred to the
BHU have had multiple unsuccessful placements and hospitalizations.
The BHU can accommodate the needs of adolescents that require a
higher level of care than the home setting or acute care
hospitalizations can provide.
The BHU program promotes interventions for clients
ages 14-20. The BHU focuses on the ability of clients to learn basic
self monitoring goals and the application of self management
techniques. The emphasis is on strengths and on choice related
decisions. This means that the clients use empirically grounded
treatment to identify their own unique thinking, feeling, and
behavioral coping responses for a strengths-based model.
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