How Wizard's Way Benefits Mental Health Professionals

Wizard's Way takes the cooperative relationship between referring mental health professional, admitting physician and clinical staff to an entirely new level not readily found in most inpatient settings.

Wizard's Way is a fresh original application of sound psychological theory to the treatment of children.

The Wizard's Way hospital version is a community mental health, educational outpatient, and total hospital behavior management and conflict resolution program. This format is a very creative and effective therapeutic intervention that eliminates the level system and has proven to reduce seclusion and restraint by at least 50%. Medical Director's Report

The program successfully integrates cognitive, behavioral, dynamic, art, psychodrama, and music treatments into a playful child-friendly format. Its positive approach enhances motivation, alleviates anxiety, and maintains a child's interest.

The program structure offers frequent, intensive clinical opportunities that are highly visible and readily accessible to the therapist for the purpose of tracking a child's progress. This is accomplished through the incorporation of the challenge sheets and all relevant materials in the child's chart on the central nurse's station. This allows the therapist to review in sequence all programmatic activity that has occurred throughout the course of treatment.

The flexibility of Wizard's Way maximizes staff creativity and morale, and greater unifies the treatment team, reducing the frequency of common "splitting" behaviors on the unit. All versions of this treatment modality can generalize from the inpatient and partial hospital programs to family and community life.

Wizard's Way Promise To Health Care Providers

Wizard's Way will provide a creative and effective therapeutic intervention for children that eliminates the level system and reduces seclusion and restraints.