Re-Education of Emotionally Disturbed (Re-ED) Youth

A component of the intensive mental health treatment provided on Youth Villages’ Residential Treatment campuses, the Re-Education of Emotionally Disturbed (Re-ED) Youth therapy model includes a structured routine to help children settle into a regulated lifestyle with clearly set expectations and a system of rewards and consequences. Emphasizing accomplishments and competence-building activities, Re-ED reinforces positive behavior changes and allows children to build trusting relationships with their counselors, teachers and other adults.

Using Re-ED principles, Youth Villages teaches children:

• Live life now, not in the past.
• Trust between children and adults is essential.
• Be good at something; competence makes a difference.
• Time is an ally.
• Self-control can be taught.
• Intelligence can be taught.
• Feelings should be nurtured, shared spontaneously, controlled when necessary, expressed when too long repressed and shared with trusted others.
• The group is very important.
• Ceremony and ritual give order, stability and confidence.
• The body is the armature of the self.
• Communities are important.
• A child should know some joy in each day.