Residential Treatment Academy for Teens

Solstice Pacific is the only integrative psychiatry healthcare facility offering RTC, PHP, and IOP for teens, providing a structured environment for boys and girls aged 12 to 18 with comprehensive, integrated care. Each individual's customized treatment plan combines evidence-based clinical and experiential methods with academic support to foster long-term, sustainable recovery.

Our adolescent programs feature a balanced schedule that includes clinical care, experiential activities, and academics, ensuring adolescents receive supervision from a team of experts, including psychiatrists, therapists, counselors, nurses, dietitians, and practitioners of experiential therapy.

Our programs offer an educational component alongside a structured regimen of clinical and experiential therapies, including:

• Individual Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Art Therapy
• Music Therapy
• Yoga
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
• Choice Theory
• Motivational Interviewing
• Exposure and Response Prevention
• Other approaches

These holistic approaches, incorporating a new environment, structured schedule, balanced circadian rhythm, nutrition, and social therapy, supports the effectiveness of group work, family planning, and individual therapy.

Residential Treatment Academy is paired with PHP then IOP to help regain stability and functionality, regardless of the diagnosis. The purpose behind the academy and program is to help restore structure, routine, and skills needed for a successful life. We work with your school’s curriculum to incorporate independent study, tutoring, and a strategic schedule to optimize efficiency and learning. Integrated in your loved one’s learning will be active skill-building, practicing, and healthy social support with peers.

Our mission is to equip your child with the tools they'll need to thrive in any situation.

Solstice Academy will help patients get stable and functional by giving them nutritional treatment, psychiatric medicine, case management skill building, lab work, group work, and family counseling. Regardless of complexity or diagnosis, our expert team of professionals is ready. We specialize in helping families create the habits they were born to love.

Waiting list criteria:

• Motivation for health, healing, wholeness
• Completion of intake forms
• Completion of preadmission assessments
• Willingness to fight for your life
• Agreement to forms and consents

The Impact of Digital Devices on Children's Attention and Cognitive Development

Many parents are concerned that their children struggle with attention more than previous generations, largely due to the increased use of digital devices like tablets and smartphones. Research suggests that excessive screen time can lead to “digital dementia,” impairing cognitive function and making it difficult for children to engage with less stimulating tasks—a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that children using digital devices for more than two hours a day are at a higher risk for developing ADHD symptoms.

Additionally, electromagnetic radiation (EMF) from these devices may negatively affect cognitive abilities. A study in PLOS One showed that rats exposed to cellphone radiation faced challenges in attention and learning, raising concerns about the impact on developing children's brains, which are more susceptible to EMF.

Solstice Academy addresses these difficulties through a holistic approach that includes individual and group therapy, experiential activities, and nutritional support—our goal is to create a structured environment that fosters healthy cognitive development and equips children with the skills needed to thrive in a technology-driven world.