Therapeutic Services

Inland Empire Residential Centers has incorporated several therapeutic modalities into its current program. IERC’s basic program is based on BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION, and COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL LEARNING THEORIES. These are all evidence-based practices that have been shown to be effective through extensive research and utilization in residential treatment facilities.

ANGER REPLACEMENT TRAINING (ART) was incorporated into IERC’s evidence-based practices in February 2007 and has been highly effective with children and adolescents in residential treatment facilities and schools. Supervised by the California Association of Mental Health, IERC participates in statewide and national outcome studies that track the progress of children who participate in the 10-week program. ART is conducted during twice-weekly groups that are led by ART-certified instructors. ART has been extremely effective in our program over the past year by helping the children increase their positive responses to stressful situations as well as helping them decrease their angry responses with staff and peers.

ART has three components that include: SKILL STREAMING: Teaches children basic social skills that help them integrate more effectively into school and social situations; MORAL REASONING: Teaches children to think through the “right vs. wrong” of daily situations and encourages them to talk through their reasoning with their peers; ANGER MANAGEMENT: Teaches children to recognize physical indicators of their own anger, how to recognize them, and how to replace their typical “angry” responses with more appropriate and productive ways of dealing with their anger and frustration.

IERC further provides the children and their families with individual, group and family therapy encouraging any and all available family members to participate. IERC’s therapeutic program is based on providing children and their families with a positive and encouraging environment in which they are encouraged to find inherent strengths and to develop new strengths as they work through their challenging family issues.