Please contact
Oxbow Academy at
(435) 436-9460
or email us

Gregg Lott, LCSW
Admissions Director

Educational Consultants
please call Steve
at 801-380-8820

With more than a decade of therapeutic excellence, Oxbow Academy is a trusted source of information on how to help your troubled teen.

One of the most common questions parents ask is, “How long will my son need to be at Oxbow?” The answer depends on how long the behavioral problems have been occurring and how engrained they may be. Our experience indicates most students remain at Oxbow Academy for between 6 to 18 months.

Therapy is most successful when parents are highly supportive of the therapeutic approach. We strongly urge parents to help their son accept responsibility for his behaviors and recognize the need for treatment.

We also request parents tell their child the duration of his treatment will depend upon his willingness to complete therapy assignments, participate in all therapy sessions, and follow program rules.

Our treatment objectives provide the focus for therapy. These objectives center around: Perception of self, Relationships, Life skills, and Accountability.

1. Healthy PERCEPTION of SELF and thinking:

   Using the phrase “Whatever life throws at me, I can handle it.” Oxbow Academy assists each student to discover his own identity and how he can tap into his own individual potential. Students will be able to work on and control behavior errors on the outside by examining personal thinking errors on the inside. Each student can impact his quality of life and feelings about himself as he develops the ability to choose his own cognitive process, belief or attitude about himself or others. We develop this by providing various activities, challenges, and experiences where he can learn, practice and internalize his own self worth.

2. Loving and Validating RELATIONSHIPS:

   True health and happiness requires love and validation. At Oxbow Academy we strive to develop within every student a positive sense of self and validation so as to eliminate destructive behaviors that tend to be love substitutes. As individuals develop a positive perception of themselves, they are able to develop and maintain positive relationships. Students will learn and internalize skills to properly develop and maintain relationships. We will provide each family the necessary support and therapy to assist in the development of family growth and change.

3. SKILLS for life:

   Oxbow Academy teaches and helps internalize coping skills that will be utilized to develop not only a life worth living, but, an effective and happy life. The highly experiential campus will provide an environment to practice learned skills, so as to internalize through doing.

4. Personal ACCOUNTABILITY: (personal integrity)

   Critical to adolescent growth is the development of following through or doing that which you have committed to do. Accountability breeds responsible adolescents who are able to make healthy choices. We will provide sufficient structure and mindfulness to allow the student to see “the big picture,” which will allow them to make insightful choices and lasting change.

If you have questions about these objectives or any other aspect of our program, please call our admissions counselors.

Oxbow Academy – New Hope, New Help, No Secrets.™

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