Each youth sets an achievable daily goal and a home-based goal that is related to problematic behavior. Goals are reviewed with their parents or caregivers daily.

Most participants of the ASPIRE™ Day Treatment program identify with anger management issues. We utilize Aggression Replacement Training/Anger Management (ART) with the hopes of providing members of our Day Treatment Program with effective coping mechanisms that make anger management more feasible. ART treatment is an evidence-based approach for working with challenging youth utilizing three components: social skills training, anger control, and moral reasoning.

ASPIRE™ frequently uses process groups for our older youth to develop the skills necessary to deal with their individual problems/issues. This is accomplished by using the group process to provide peer interaction and feedback while developing problem-solving strategies and assisting one another in resolving behavioral and emotional problems. Process groups are based on the premise that much of human behavior and feeling involves an individual's adaptation and response to other people; the process group can assist individuals in making necessary changes by means of support, feedback, and guidance.

ASPIRE™ also uses some non-traditional therapies that utilize self-expression (art, recreation, dance, music, etc.) as the therapeutic intervention. Youth do not need to have any level of skill in the area of self-expression, but rather be able to utilize the modality to develop or enhance skills directed towards their goals.

ASPIRE™ also provides counseling by licensed professionals and it assists youth in achieving a better psychosocial adaptation, acquiring greater human realization of psychosocial potential and adaptation, to modify internal and external conditions that affect individuals, groups, or communities with respect to behavior, emotions, and thinking, with respect to their intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. Psychotherapy does not include physiological interventions, including medication intervention.

ASPIRE™’s PSR groups build skills in managing social interactions at home, school, and in the community. Topics include: problem-solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal skills, and communication skills. Therapeutic activities include gross motor activities, cinema therapy, therapeutic board games, and creative art projects to teach and strengthen daily living skills while developing body coordination, physical health, and self-esteem. Our PRS groups help youth to identify barriers/obstacles related to their psychiatric and psychological experiences and, through the course of interaction, become better able to identify skills that address symptoms and behaviors while increasing adaptive behaviors.