A safe, supportive home-like environment where young people struggling with substance use and mental health challenges receive personalized, evidence-based care to foster lasting recovery & personal growth.
Sandstone Care’s teen residential treatment centers offer a comprehensive 60-90 day program designed to help adolescents (ages 13-18) overcome substance use, addiction, and mental health disorders like trauma, anxiety, and depression.
Our accredited, evidence-based program offers personalized therapy, medication management, and 24/7 care from a compassionate, experienced team. We take a holistic approach to healing, helping teens develop life skills and emotional resilience, while also engaging families in the recovery process.
After treatment, our dedicated aftercare team ensures lasting success by connecting your teen with ongoing support and resources tailored to their unique journey.
We offer seamless step-down options like Day Treatment and Intensive Outpatient Programs, providing ongoing support without the need to search for a new treatment center—saving you both time and money.
Our admissions team will help you find the right teenage treatment center for your child based on availability, length of stay, academic support needs, travel considerations, and your insurance provider. Explore our residential programs for teenagers below:
2020 Martins Grant Ct., Crownsville, Maryland, 21032
(888) 850-1890
We have felt included and supported and are so grateful for the care they’ve provided to our son at such a vulnerable and scary time.
Our residential treatment for youth centers around a 7-week curriculum of group process topics that help teens understand their challenges from all angles. This curriculum gives your child the knowledge, tools, and compassion needed for positive change.
Week 1: Teens explore skills and topics that aid them in learning more about themselves and their recovery identities (as opposed to their substance using or poor mental health identities). They focus on introspective subjects like self-esteem, self-discovery, values & morals, attitudes & beliefs, and self-acceptance.
Week 2: Teens learn new social skills, including how to navigate and create healthy relationships with friends, family, partners, teachers, and other important people in their lives. They examine how they fit into these different relationships in a prosocial way, and focus on improving skills like communication, assertiveness, codependency, boundary setting, impulse control, compassion, and more.
Week 3: Teens develop positive coping skills like grounding techniques, while also focusing on subjects like the effects of substance use on the brain, grief & loss in addiction recovery, building resilience, coping with trauma, self-nurturing, and maintaining safety.
Week 4: Teens learn skills that will help them handle life’s inevitable challenges. They explore topics like anger management, building trust in relationships, making commitments in recovery, and problem solving. They also learn how to assess triggers and cope with cravings in healthy ways.
Week 5: Teens learn all about the first two branches of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance. They explore related topics like mindfulness meditation, recognizing different states of mind, self-soothing, as well as WHAT skills, HOW skills, ACCEPTS skills, and PROMISE skills.
Week 6: Teens finish up their lessons on Distress Tolerance and begin learning about the last two branches of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Interpersonal Effectiveness and Emotional Regulation. They dive into related topics like accepting reality, goals and roadblocks, distortions and stories, mutual purpose and respect, DEAR MAN skills, smooth SAILING skills, and SERENITY skills.
Week 7: Teens develop stress reduction skills this week and learn how to distinguish between good stress and bad stress. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) skills, they begin to understand how stress affects the mind-body connection, appreciate what parts of life they can and can’t control, and learn helpful ways to cope with stress and painful situations.
At Sandstone Care, we believe in personalized and specialized care. Unlike generic treatment approaches, we understand that each person’s circumstances are unique.
Using thorough assessments, our licensed therapists and medical professionals gain a deeper understanding of your child’s background, challenges, and goals. We then equip your teen and your family with the necessary tools to support your child’s recovery journey.
With our full continuum of care, your teenager will receive the right level of support at every stage. Whether they need high-support inpatient care at a teenage residential treatment center, or just a few hours of outpatient treatment a week, our expert team will find their best fit.
The Continuum of Care
Access a full range of treatments for mental health and substance use disorders. Whether you need a safe transitional living community, inpatient care, or outpatient therapy, we have a program to help.
