Meeting Families as Far as They Can Go: A Values-Centered Approach to Treating Sexually Abused Children and Their Families

• By: Adrienne Williams Myers, LCSW Jean Holland, LCSW Drena Fagen, LCAT Alexis Howard, LCSW Sandra Scott, PhD Thelma Dye, PhD Northside Center for Child Development
• April 1st, 2012
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This paper describes a sexual abuse-specific treatment program for children that combines creative art therapy groups for the abused child with concurrent supportive, psychoeducational therapy groups for non-offending parents. This program, led by Northside Center for Child Development’s Project...

Designing Integrated Services for Adolescents: One Agency’s Experience

• By: Jean Holland, LCSW Northside Center for Child Development
• January 1st, 2011
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Addressing the mental health needs of teens in a clinic setting offers a unique set of challenges. Adolescent clients can strain the assumptions and framework of traditional mental health services in a number of ways: they have a developmental imperative to separate from parents and adult...