On AIR with Elk River

​In this episode, we interview Amy Moor, Clinical Coordinator at Elk River Treatment program. Amy discusses several of the pitfalls associated with discharge from a long-term residential treatment, as well as strategies that can help families move forward after residential treatment is over. Among these strategies are boundaries, natural and logical consequences, positive peer connections, and structure.

In this episode we interview Amy Moor, the Clinical Coordinator at Elk River Treatment Program. Amy answers frequently asked questions about residential treatment for teens, and introduces the Courage Circle - a clinical tool that helps kids (and adults too!) identify the core issues in their lives that drive destructive and maladaptive behaviors. We hope you'll join us "On Air!"

This podcast, which was pre-recorded at a conference, features Kathy Marino, Penny Baker, and Holly Hunter, who discuss the ways that parental guilt can interfere with the treatment process for children, and what can be done to change parental guilt into confidence and clarity. Other topics of the podcast include the role of transport companies in residential treatment and manipulation tactics employed by teens to leverage parental guilt.

This podcast was recorded at a conference, and features Penny Baker from Elk River Treatment Program and Aletha Howie from Restorative Advocacy. In this episode, Penny and Aletha discuss the many ways that parents of a child with special educational needs can enter into IEP and 504 meetings prepared to advocate for the help and accommodations that their child needs to succeed.

In this episode, we interview Educational Consultant Aletha Howie about the ways that parents can advocate for children in the school system to ensure that they receive the educational accommodations that they need to succeed. Aletha explains the ins and outs of the IEP and 504 plan processes and provides crucial tips about navigating the meetings associated with these plans.

Parental relationships play a key role in helping children to address and work through painful events. In this episode, Penny Baker discusses three parenting styles that have long-term impacts on children's behavior. She reveals important ways that establishing appropriate boundaries with children can be foundational to helping them overcome trauma and adverse events in their lives as well as the everyday challenges that families face.

After the first few episodes of On AIR with Elk River, parents contacted us and asked, "How do we implement the concepts of AIR at home?" You don't have to wait until your child is in a treatment program to start focusing on those character development pieces. At Elk River Treatment Program for adolescents, we arm parents with helpful resources to build, or build upon, a solid foundation. We want to share that knowledge with you as well. So welcome to the episode: AIR at Home: Implementing the Concepts of Accountability, Integrity and Responsibility.

A foundation of Accountability, Integrity and Responsibility (AIR) is critical to adolescents as they transition into adulthood. It seems simple but for most families, it isn't easy. If this foundation wasn't established early in childhood, an adolescent may begin to cope with adverse childhood events by exhibiting risky behaviors. When safety becomes an issue, it's time to consider an intervention to keep the child safe and allow the family to regroup.

This episode of On AIR with Elk River Treatment Program, our Director of Clinical Services Penny Baker stresses the importance of finding a residential therapeutic program that looks beyond checkboxes to measure a child's progress.  Do their behaviors match their emotions in varying environments? Are they demonstrating responsibility by hold themselves and others accountable?

After 28 years of counseling families and their teenagers through their most difficult times, Penny Baker, LPC-S, has seen her share of maladaptive behaviors exhibited by the clients of Elk River Treatment Program and the parents who enrolled them into the program. In this podcast, Penny shares a critical piece of the parenting puzzle: teaching integrity by what you do rather than what you say. Integrity is second component of the AIR concept which is an acronym for Accountability, Integrity and Responsibility. The AIR concept has been a mantra of Elk River Treatment Program for adolescents since opening in 2006. Today it remains a focal point of the treatment process.

When you finish this podcast, we hope you'll be willing to focus more on AIR, not just the air that you breathe, but the benefits of Accountability, Integrity and Responsibility.  When unhealthy behaviors at home become unsafe, thousands of parents have turned to the therapeutic intervention of Elk River Treatment Program for adolescents. Often what the clinical team sees after evaluating an "out of control" client, are critical components missing from their development: Accountability, Integrity and Responsibility. Today's episode focuses on accountability and how to teach, reinforce and share with families to develop a healthy value system.

In our inaugural podcast, On Air with Elk River challenges your thought process about anger. Penny Baker, Clinical Director for Elk River Treatment Program for adolescents, explains that anger is not an emotion. Once you understand that, you may realize that your raging teenager feels hurt, scared, disrespected, or treated unfairly.