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Clinical Services
Clinical Services help to maximize students' success by helping them develop and utilize tools learned through their day-to-day living. Using a relationship-based model, our clinical services are integrated into all aspects of the milieu, creating an optimally therapeutic environment. Our clinical staff can be found interacting with our students around the fireplace, sharing a meal in the dining hall, and/or playing games with a group of youth. In addition, your child participates in regular family and group therapy, along with individual therapy, as needed, with a clinician licensed at one of several levels by the State of Idaho.

Care Management
Care Management Teams include the clinician, parent communicator, team leader, assistant team leader, counselors, and teachers. This team meets weekly to plan, initiate, and review your child’s progress and assure that planned interventions are clinically appropriate to meet your child’s therapeutic needs.

Family Integration

Your child’s ability to reintegrate into your family is crucial to ensure ongoing success. As the parent of a Northwest Academy student, you are required to participate in the therapeutic process. Family therapy sessions will occur weekly and may take place during on-campus visits or by telephone.

Psychiatric Support
Psychiatric support for students at Northwest Academy is provided through a contract with Northwest Psychiatric Associates. All students arriving at Northwest Academy who are taking medication for psychiatric issues will meet with Dr. Miewald for an initial assessment. Dr. Miewald visits our campus to follow the progress of these students. The psychiatrist will contact you whenever a change in medication is recommended.