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Summit Preparatory School-- [website] 1605 Danielson Road Kalispell, MT 59901 United States of America | |
| Phone: | 406-758-8100 |
| Ages: | 13-17 |
| Gender: | Co-Ed |
| Description: | Summit Preparatory School is a non-profit therapeutic boarding school outside of Kalispell, Montana, caters to intellectually average to superior boys and girls who are not reaching their potential due to clinical issues impeding their success. |
| Director Name: | Admissions director, Jan Johnson, MSW |
| Enroll Info: | A detailed interview with our Admissions Director |
| Student Profile: | Experiencing difficulties with school, family, and often peers. Often this is a child who has done well in the past, and whose family has watched him or her struggle more and more with life demands despite the obvious potential for meeting these expectations. Typically, the student has had little success in individual therapy, and may display a growing uncomfortable acceptance of """"""""failing"""""""" in academic and emotional struggles. |
| Academics: | Our educational philosophy is based on student-centered learning. Our faculty strives to assess the academic strengths of each student as well as areas where students need to improve. Educational goals are developed with each student to address their unique talents and interests. Teachers strive to instill positive attitudes and perceptions about learning by building strong relationships with their students and challenging them to be active participants in the learning process. Together, teachers and students at Summit Preparatory School become lifelong learners by pursuing the challenges of learning and enjoying the intrinsic reward of academic accomplishment and success. |
| Counseling: | Underlying all treatment interventions at Summit Preparatory School is a basic belief that all people inherently want to grow, experience healthy relationships, and lead satisfying lives. This is a universal drive that can become thwarted by disruptions in a person’s life that interfere with development of foundational beliefs about self and others, and the learning and practice of age-appropriate basic life skills. Family life events such as divorce, illness, death of parents, abuse or other trauma, early illnesses, peer rejections, substance use, or psychological issues can all impact development. Severe or persistent interference with the developmental process often creates unhealthy dynamics in an individual’s relations with family, peers, and teachers that serve to hold the individual in place, and problems with motivation, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and self-concept are often the unfortunate result. Since these delays are usually multiply determined, the treatment approach must also be multi-faceted. To this end, each young person is served by an integrated treatment team of professionals, including his or her teachers, therapist, and house parents. This treatment team develops an individualized service plan that addresses the specific needs of each student, and continually reevaluates the effectiveness of the plan in light of the student’s current performance in all aspects of his/her life here. Our treatment philosophy is based upon the premise that our students are neither “bad” nor irrevocably “broken”, but instead delayed in their development as an individual. This belief in a “developmental” focus for understanding troubled adolescents assumes that development occurs within a traceable sequence of stages. Individuals learn and develop key proficiencies at each stage, and if these are not adequately developed, then problems will result. Therefore, the primary goal of the treatment program is to identify the foundational deficits that interfere with relationships with family and others, address these through groups and individual therapy, and provide varied opportunities for learning, practice, and consolidation with the intent of catching the young person up on the various skill proficiencies that have been lacking as a result of the delay. |
| Philosophy: | Through an eclectic and relationship-based approach, we seek to creatively support adolescents in their inherent desire to learn and grow, to develop supportive and sustaining relationships with peers and family, to identify and ameliorate obstructions to the developmental process, and to assist the formation of an adaptive and positive self-concept, promoting further growth. |
| Staff: | RICK JOHNSON, Executive Director B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy - Trinity College. M.A. of Social Work - Jane Addams College of Social Work/University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Alt Link: | Summit Preparatory School-- link (Alternate) |
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| Boarding Schools | |
| For more information call: | |
406-758-8100 | |
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