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Centerstone has established a counseling program for Murrell School students. The aim of this program is to provide counseling services within the school. Students served include those certified as seriously emotionally disturbedand learning disabled. The two primary services of this program are individual psychotherapy and group therapy for students.
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Program goals include improving students' behavioral adjustment, self-esteem and social skills; increasing students' attention span, self-control and problem solving skills; helping students explore and understand their feelings; working in a complementary role with classroom staff to prepare students for mainstreaming.
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Program success is monitored and evaluated by the following means: pre- and post- testing of students in such areas as self-esteem, social skills and behavioral adjustment; charting student progress through a token economy system; evaluating student readiness for mainstreaming; teacher observation and reports; parent observation and reports; and therapists' charting of objectives met.
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