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Our Multi-Disciplinary Approach
The broad spectrum of professional services offered by Five Rivers means that a young person who is beyond the reach of many residential units can work their way through individual (singleton) units where they have intensive input and learn self-control to the extent where they can mix and live with others in a residential home or family placement.
Key areas of work are focussed on bringing up the quality of social relationships, to learn compassion for others, to learn to respect for each other and to show respect to those in authority, to improve anger management so that violence and aggression is brought to a level where it is within normal, good ranges for a teenager.
Within our clinical environments they are taught about how relationships work and how to be in a close relationships without them being exploitative and objectifying.
Specialist help in areas of drug, alcohol and smoking dependency are also available. Within our family placement services many carers have years of experience and training and have specialist skills such as managing to care for complex sibling groups.
The failure rate in Five Rivers of placements is incredibly low.
The success of this is put down to the clinical teams, Social Workers, Residential Practitioners, Educationalist that provide support and training for the carers within our services across a several different types care settings, ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach for the preparation of children in specialist placements.
The sense of belonging and integration is important to everyone in Five Rivers. Many children and young people achieve a sense of belonging after years of rejection, trauma and hurt.
These children and young people have been so damaged over prolonged periods of time it is important to see that working together and producing children capable of living a life is a worthwhile outcome and one that is being achieved now and has been throughout the history of Five Rivers.
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