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    • Overview
    • What Parents Should Look For
    • Getting Started
    • Understanding Insurance Coverage
    • Insurance Coverage Validation
    • Financing
    • Jennifer Golick Treatment Scholarship
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Petaluma Resources
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  • Topics in Teen Treatment
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    • Sleeping Disorders
    • Teen Intervention: What You Need to Know
    • Teen Rehab and Today’s High-Potency Marijuana
    • Teen Rehab for Marijuana Use Disorder
  • Why Parents Choose Us
      Why Parents Choose Us
      There are myriad reasons why parents choose Muir Wood to transform their teen. This section provides many compelling and empirical reasons to trust us with the treatment of your child.
    • Comprehensive Family Program
    • Gender-Specific Treatment
    • Academic Excellence at Muir Wood
    • Treatment Comparison Guide
    • The Gold Standard
    • What Parents Say
    • Muir Wood Outcomes
  • Meet Our Professional Staff
      Meet Our Professional Staff
    • Meet Our Team of Professionals
    • – Founder & Executive Director
    • – Clinical and Medical Staff
    • – Administration and Admissions
    • – Academics
    • – Resident Assistants
    • – Family Program Staff
    • – Outpatient Program Staff
    • – Adventure Therapy Staff
    • – Experiential Therapy Staff
  • Treating Teen Mental Health
      Treating Teen Mental Health
    • Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders
    • Adjustment Disorder
    • Teen Anxiety Disorders
    • Depression in Teens
    • Disruptive Behavior
    • Personality Disorders
    • Phobias
    • PTSD and Trauma in Teens
    • Teen Depression and Substance Misuse
  • Boys Clinical Program
      Boys Clinical Program
    • Clinical Program Overview
    • Individual & Group Therapy
    • Psychological Testing & Assessment (Optional)
    • Benefits of Psychological Testing
    • Pharmacogenomic Testing
    • Equine-Assisted Therapy
    • Holistic and Experiential Therapy
    • 12-Step Program
    • Adventure Therapy
  • Boys Residential Teen Rehab
      Boys Residential Teen Rehab
      Our boys residential rehab program accepts a maximum of 16 boys at one time. This small number of boys allows for highly individualized and extremely effective treatment for mental health issues such as trauma, depression, or poor self esteem that often lead to self-medication with drugs and/or alcohol, as well as the substance use itself.
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    • A Typical Week in Teen Rehab
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    • Academic Excellence
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      Learn About Muir Wood
      Muir Wood is a world renowned northern California treatment center for teens struggling with mental health, behavioral, and substance abuse issues. We offer residential inpatient treatment for teen boys 12–17 in Sonoma County, and outpatient treatment for boys and girls 12–19 in Marin County. 
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Residential Teen Treatment Program for Boys 12-17

Because of the small number of boys accepted, the Muir Wood’s teen treatment program is highly individualized and is extremely effective at treating not only substance abuse, but the underlying issues such as trauma, depression, or poor self esteem that often lead to self-medication with drugs and/or alcohol. It is the philosophy of Muir Wood, that substance use is a symptom of an underlying mental health or emotional issue.

Teen Treatment Program, Residential

The teen treatment program at Muir Wood is gender-specific, treating only adolescent boys 12-17. A gender-specific program allows boys to be vulnerable and open to exploring and discussing sensitive issues that may otherwise be kept inside. Therapy is provided in an environment that promotes communication in a compassionate and thoughtful way, never shaming or punitive. Without the obvious distraction of the opposite sex, boys are free to engage in therapy that can often be difficult and introspective. A gender-specific residential teen treatment program allows boys to be supportive of their peers, feel a true sense of safety, hold each other accountable for participation in the program, remain open and willing to show emotion, and display less aggression and posturing as is common in mixed-gender programs.

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Alumnus mom Jeanine talks about her son’s journey from addiction to recovery at Muir Wood teen treatment program

The Boys Residential Teen Treatment Program at Muir Wood is a comprehensive addiction and dual-diagnosis treatment program housed in two beautiful country home in Petaluma, California. We accept a maximum of 16 boys in treatment across the two campuses. During their stay with us, boys take part in our intensive clinical program, keep up with academics in our on-campus classroom, benefit from our optional comprehensive psychological testing and assessments, and participate in a full schedule of therapeutic activities. Family involvement is also a critical component of our residential teen treatment program.

For boys who are new to treatment and do not have significant behavioral or psychiatric issues, we recommend a minimum 45-day length of stay. For boys with a longer history of substance use, or with significant mental health, behavioral or psychiatric issues, we recommend a stay of 60 to 90 days.

This additional time in residential care allows for deeper work on family dynamics and 12-step recovery, as well as individualized work on mental health and behavioral challenges. The longer stay also gives families the opportunity to put into supervised practice the communication and relationship skills learned in the first 45 days. This allows for more intensive healing within a fractured family system.

Why Choose a Residential Teen Treatment Program?

For boys who struggle with addiction and co-occurring disorders a residential teen treatment program can be a life-changing experience. The parents who choose Muir Wood’s teen treatment program want their son to have the most effective treatment available, and view this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for their son to experience incredible personal growth.

A residential teen treatment program also allows clinicians a platform for accurate assessment and diagnosis. In a highly structured residential setting where weekly random drug testing and close supervision is the norm, parents are assured that the boys at Muir Wood are free of any mind-altering substances. In this structured environment, assessment measures such as psychiatric evaluations and neuropsychological testing can be accomplished if needed, providing an accurate diagnosis that can lead to far better outcomes. In a residential teen treatment program, the clinical team has the ability to develop treatment plans that best address the boy’s individual needs insuring effective treatment and sustainable recovery.

Our residential teen treatment program offers a number of important advantages for your son

Time away from triggers. Your son’s substance use is likely tied to specific triggers, such as a group of friends, a particular social situation, or challenges at home or school. Taking a break from these triggers is critical for learning healthier coping mechanisms and developing new habits.

Space for families to heal. Often, a break from the existing family structure is necessary for family members to change unhealthy communication patterns, process difficult emotions, and heal from hurts they have unintentionally caused each other. Residential treatment offers this time and space, as well as an active process of family therapy that allows for growth and healing for all family members.

Intensive, comprehensive treatment. A residential teen treatment program provides a level of care not possible in any other setting. Your son will be surrounded by highly experienced medical, academic, and mental health professionals as he works through our teen treatment program.

Treatment in “real life.” The residential setting allows for therapeutic learning to take place in “real life” situations, such as the classroom, dinner table, and during daily chores. Surrounded by peers and adult role models, your son will be engaged in both formal and informal therapeutic activities and conversations all day, every day.

Diagnostic clarity. If your son is actively involved in using drugs or alcohol, it will be very difficult to accurately diagnose any underlying mental health or learning issues. Muir Wood’s residential teen treatment program provides an opportunity for safe and structured containment, and for your son to clear his system of substances, which in turn allows us to work through our extensive diagnostic tests and evaluations, as required. A more accurate diagnosis greatly increases his chances for long-term sobriety and a fulfilling future.

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Muir Wood Boys Residential Program

Sonoma County, CA
866-705-0828