Clinical Overview

Keswick School’s clinical team consists of four clinicians with specific roles and responsibilities. We have two full-time licensed clinical psychologists, a full-time licensed clinical social worker and a consulting licensed child psychiatrist who carries a small treatment caseload and provides medication management for all students. This clinical team collaborates extensively with administrative, academic, and residential staff to direct and coordinate student support and treatment.

The clinical team directs an a student-centered, team-based process, provides staff training, and consults on program development and implementation. Most importantly, the clinical team guides and supports the relationship-based interactions that occur continuously between students and staff members in our community. The consulting child psychiatrist gathers and disseminates data from all aspects of the program to use in provision of our students’ psychiatric care. Students meet with these therapists weekly for individual and group therapy, and twice each month for family therapy via face to face sessions, teleconferencing or video conferencing.

Individual Therapy

Students meet with their assigned therapists each week for individual therapy. Individual therapy sessions are founded within the strong rapport that develops between the therapist and the student. This rapport allows students to make goals, take risks, and explore their identity in a safe and nurturing relationship.

Family Therapy

Family therapy is scheduled twice each month via face to face sessions, teleconferencing or video conferencing. Ongoing family therapy supports the central role of the family in their son’s growth and treatment. Sessions also serves to support and shape the family system toward the development of an effective, supportive environment for their son upon transition, and to facilitate the extension of gains from this community to the family and home.

Group Therapy

Group therapy relevant to individual developmental levels is provided to each student by our three therapists. These sessions include process groups, activity groups and cover a wide range of treatment goals and topics. Group therapy is an integral component of our clinical program that represents an extension of immersion model in which peer relationships help motivate positive change.

Medication Management

Medication management is done on site by our consulting child and adolescent psychiatrist who is on campus at least three days a week. Professional psychiatric support is an integrated part of the TKS treatment model and is provided to all of our families.

Weight Management

Healthy eating, and the nurturance and care embedded in nutrition, are integral parts of each boy’s treatment plan at TKS. Our attending child psychiatrist monitors each student’s Body Mass Index (BMI). Students’ heights and weights are recorded monthly and reviewed by our psychiatrist. He then implements nutritional supports to meet the dietary needs of each student.