Our residential program for adolescent eating disorders includes additional adolescent-specific components such as group therapy tailored to stressors in a young woman's life, a robust family therapy program, licensed teachers who interact with local school systems, specialized staff, and menu modifications.
Blue Ridge Eating Disorder Care Center also offers outdoor spaces and a recreation center that allow each patient to interact with the scenic landscape. Nutritionally, our chef offers cooking and baking groups, and approachable gourmet menus which focus on fresh ingredients.
What Makes Blue Ridge Different?
Blue Ridge has a unique program structure that is therapeutic, not punitive. As all recovery is a unique journey, Blue Ridge does not utilize level systems as a way to earn privileges or family visits. Instead, we know that family involvement is vital to your daughter’s recovery and encourage family time regardless of meal completion or program adherence standards.
Our Saylorsburg Campus Feels Like Home
We know it’s not the same as the comfort and safety teens feel at home, but we promise a warm atmosphere and guidance that feels like a home away from home.
At the same time, our compassionate and kind staff will attend to every patient’s needs or requested accommodations.
Moreover, our rural setting near Allentown is a peaceful retreat to recharge, renew, and practice real behavioral change. Our common areas are cozy and safe spaces for peers to gather, enjoy a meal, watch a movie, or play a fun game.
All patient bedrooms are shared spaces and roommates are paired by our clinical staff to optimize each resident's eating disorder recovery experience.
Moreover, we try to integrate a certain element of “cool” into the designed spaces, but our young women can always count on soft sheets, fluffy comforters, pillows, and soft bathroom towels.
We understand that little things mean everything and go out of our way to ensure comfy couches, vibrant colors, and inspiring wall art. We understand the vulnerability and fears associated from being apart from family, which is why we describe our supportive residential program as a family-operated retreat.
Most importantly, Blue Ridge Eating Disorder Care Center utilizes evidence based, holistic eating disorder treatment for adolescents and helps ensure lasting recovery.
Residential Care for Young Women in the Poconos
Residential eating disorder treatment is a high-level of care for young women who are struggling with disordered eating. Our home-like setting in bucolic Eastern Pennsylvania offers your daughter the environment and small community setting she needs to heal.
With a complete team of therapists, nutritionists, psychiatric and medical providers, we ensure that your family receives a whole-person and multi-dimensional approach that fosters lifelong recovery.
Our residential care goals will also address the underlying factors contributing to the eating disorder, promote ongoing nourishment, and support overall health and well-being while giving your daughter real hope in a supportive patient & staff community.
Individualized Care
Our nurturing team recognizes that every young woman is truly one of a kind, and they respond best to treatment when their eating disorder treatment is one of a kind, too. That’s why at Blue Ridge, we develop patient care plans based on your daughter’s specific medical, nutritional, and emotional needs.
At the same time, your daughter will be assigned to a interdisciplinary care team that is comprised of medical staff, a psychiatrist, registered dietitian, and a primary therapist. This individualized approach helps foster a trusting relationship with your daughter. It also means that our team can easily pivot and adjust the care plan as treatment evolves.
Family Involvement
At Blue Ridge, we know the family's role in the treatment of eating disorders is vital to recovery. Additionally, research shows that rates of recovery are significantly higher for clients whose families participate in the treatment process. We view each client’s eating disordered behavior as holistic instead of individual, so we make it important to not place blame but to identify contributing factors to the development of the eating disorder, process them, and look for opportunities for change.
Integrated Educational Support
Age-appropriate educational support is integrated directly into our daily programming so every young woman can maintain academic progress while in residential treatment. Our learning program bridges each student patient for a smooth transition back into her home school at the point of discharge.
Nutrition and Meal Prep Support
The Blue Ridge nutrition program is a framework developed from Intuitive Eating principles that encourages young women and families to recognize and manage many common triggers for eating disorder behaviors. We offer individualized nutrition care with parent education and support, and hands-on meal preparation guided by chefs.
Learn More About Our Residential Program
In our Pennsylvania young women's residential program, your daughter will be safe with 24/7 therapeutic supervision while being nurtured to heal, grow, and recover from their eating disorder.
Whether they struggle with anorexia, bulimia, or any other forms of disordered eating, Blue Ridge has become a destination of real hope for families in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and beyond.
Our residential programming is designed to provide your adolescent with the best possible outcome through personalized, integrated care from our talented Pennsylvania eating disorder team. Call us today at 570-718-8800 to learn more about our Pennsylvania residential program for adolescent girls.
