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MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAM - ADVENTURE THERAPY PROGRAM

THE CLINICAL PROGRAM AT THE LEARNING CLINIC

The Learning Clinic's Clinical Program provides students with a comprehensive therapy program that includes individual, family, and group therapy. Fidelity of treatment is a central focus of the TLC treatment program. To achieve this cohesiveness, clinical interventions are uniformly implemented in all settings: school, residential house, during community activities, and during home visits. Clinicians work closely with teachers, residential staff, and parents to monitor the student's treatment program, review behavioral data, receive feedback, and ensure consistency. TLC clinicians also have a close working relationship with our on-site consulting psychiatrist to provide concrete feedback on the efficacy of medication interventions. Students are assigned an individual therapist who meets with them weekly, and conducts the family therapy sessions. Throughout the week, students participate in multiple group therapy sessions. These group therapy sessions are skill-focused, to help students learn strategies for developing skills that compete with problem behaviors, and move them forward to achieve identified goals. At the residential houses, students also participate in weekly therapist-led Group Process meetings, to help students identify and problem-solve social interaction difficulties between peers.

TLC offers a two-hour after school workshop activities program that provides the opportunity to practice social skills within the framework of a structured activity. These activities change every five weeks, providing students with the opportunity to practice their social skills in a variety of activities, with different staff and peers.

MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAM (Top)

Through the TLC Music Therapy Program, students can participate in weekly music therapy groups, daily music workshop activities, and individual sessions developing communication, emotional expression, leadership, and social skills through instrumental improvisation, song writing, and other musical activities.

Students learn to work together with others in a creative, non-threatening environment, while having fun and building their self-esteem.

ADVENTURE THERAPY PROGRAM (Top)

The Learning Clinic has long made use of experiential learning to assist students. The addition of a ropes course and introduction of "Adventure Therapy" during this past year have made it possible to gain the benefits of experiential learning in a therapeutic setting.

A ropes course is a series of obstacles that present both physical and mental challenges with a degree of controlled and perceived risk. There are both low and high level obstacles enabling the individual participants or groups to work through a progression of activities and allowing the facilitators to customize their curriculum to address specific treatment and group issues as they arise.

Many times individuals experience difficult emotions, such as anxiety and fear when confronted by new and different activities or situations. Through participation in a ropes course program and within a supportive environment, individuals develop an increased ability to cope with new and different situations and their accompanying emotions.

Ropes course activities are physically challenging and typically are presented in a graded progression designed to foster increased group cohesion, improved communication patterns, heightened levels of trust, and increased self-confidence. The ropes course experience allows the individual to "try on" new behaviors in an objective learning atmosphere.