Founded in 1985, New Lifestyles offers a

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Quality Clinical Care
Founded in 1985, New Lifestyles offers a
clinically intensive therapeutic program
that incorporates behavioral, motivational
and life skills support for emerging adults.
“ New Lifestyles sets the standard
for quality clinical care among
emerging adult programs. The
therapist to client ratio at New
Lifestyles is one of the best among
therapeutic programs. It is my
first referral choice whenever
I have a client with intensive
clinical issues.”
– Educational Consultant
Unique Approach
and therefore, is the hallmark of the New Lifestyles assessment.
The evaluation process begins with an initial call to the admissions
coordinator. If we are an appropriate placement, prior records will be
requested. Additional assessments, all carefully designed to ensure that
the New Lifestyles clinicians understand your issues, are conducted
during the interview process.
New Lifestyles uniqueness and value are based on its integration of
multiple treatment components. Our psychological rigor rivals the
depth and quality often found only in more isolated and expensive
residential and psychiatric settings. However, our services are provided
in a structured environment within a normalized and non-stigmatizing
small town community where students are supported and encouraged to
develop ever increasing levels of autonomy and independence.
Once enrolled, students meet with therapists three times per week: two
individual sessions and one family consultation. Group therapy meets
from six to eight times each week and focuses on both clinical and
psycho-educational issues. For students on psychotropic medications, a
consulting psychiatrist provides supervision.
Hope
An initial, clinically sophisticated understanding of each student is key
to hope and the long-term success of any intervention-based program,
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Effort
Either obtaining employment
or attending school/college is a
program requirement although
students are limited in the number
of hours chosen in these activities.
New Lifestyles encourages and
expects students to participate in
a variety of social and recreational
activities, all planned by students
with New Lifestyles staff assistance.
Students progress through distinct phases, each associated with
privileges and responsibilities, including a checking account, cell
phone, and car. Attendance and participation, maintenance of the
program honor code, and the attainment of one’s own personal goals
provide objective measures of progress and determine participant
earnings and rewards.
Students learn to manage everyday life situations through instruction
on balancing a checkbook, planning an evening meal with friends,
learning to arrange transportation, planing meals, and performing
light household maintenance. Men and women live separately with
roommates in homes managed by New Lifestyles staff.
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“We are thrilled to see how New
Lifestyles and our daughter’s hard
work made such a noticeable
change; it is simply phenomenal.”
– New Lifestyles Parent
Recovery
behavioral addictions or a substance abuse history. Those in recovery
attend in-house addiction group sessions focused on relapse prevention
and participate in Narcotics Anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous
meetings located in the community.
New Lifestyles will accept
students with either substance
or behavior addictions after
they have participated in either
a wilderness or other residential
rehabilitation program. After
enrollment at New Lifestyles,
students will enter a substance
abuse track designed to address
their unique treatment needs.
Additional group sessions are
provided for students with
Motion
The small town setting allows real interactions between our students and
the people who call the local Winchester community home. Students
neither are isolated in unfamiliar territory, nor overwhelmed in an urban
environment with the high-paced demands and distractions that life in
a big city can present. Instead, New Lifestyles students live, work and
learn in a community environment that encourages the development of
their interpersonal skills.
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Although New Lifestyles students represent
some of the most successful families in
America, many have not achieved the
transitional challenges associated with
becoming an adult. These young men
and women are often above average in
intelligence and come to Virginia from many
other states across the country. Most students
have graduated from high school, many have
attended college, and a significant number
have transitioned from wilderness or other
residential treatment programs.
Developmental tasks during the transitional phase of emerging
adulthood include clarification of career objectives and related
educational pursuits, as well as the establishment of interpersonal
relationship patterns. The young men and women who come to New
Lifestyles often present a history of difficulties making friends. This
inability to form close and lasting connections with others can intensify
feelings of low self-esteem and uncertainty about self or one’s future.
Difficulties have often resulted in developmental task delays. As a
result, many of our chronologically 18-22 year olds can appear as
much younger both emotionally and behaviorally. A major goal at New
Lifestyles is to facilitate movement through developmental stages and to
support the accomplishment of those tasks associated with each stage.
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“Basically, finding New Lifestyles
was a Godsend for us.... We’ve
developed so much confidence in
New Lifestyles. The staff is astute
at diagnosis and assessing the
problems.... They are professional
as well as caring and accessible.”
– New Lifestyles Parent
Examples of typical tasks that students have not mastered include driving,
dating, and managing finances. Further complicating a clinical presentation
may be the presence of risky behaviors such as suicidal gestures representing
a cry for help, sexual acting out, reckless driving, and drug/alcohol
experimentation.
New Lifestyles students present with a variety of DSM IV Axis I clinical
diagnoses and symptoms. Among these are mood disorders that often are
masked by behaviors not easily identified with either depression or mania.
Other clinical diagnoses include neurological disorders (Aspergers disorder,
verbal and non-verbal learning disabilities); anxiety disorders; eating
disorders; substance abuse disorders (by history); and attention disorders.
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These clinical presentations may be complicated by the presence of Axis
II personality traits/disorders. Personality styles that include passive
aggressiveness, avoidance, dependence, and entitlement mitigate against
successful interventions since these characteristics serve to undermine
motivation and to sabotage treatment.
Connection
While New Lifestyles students may share certain characteristics, each
student is treated uniquely. All are welcomed by peers who understand
the challenges and who will work in partnership with new students.
New Lifestyles students benefit from feedback in group from both peers
and staff facilitators.
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“We are extremely grateful
for everything you are doing
for our son and for us. Your
insight, guidance, support and
compassion are amazing and
mean the world to us.”
– New Lifestyles Parents
Individuation
New Lifestyles recognizes families as an integral part of every student’s
life and as an essential component to success in the program. New
Lifestyles embraces parents’ participation in the student’s transition to
young adulthood by offering parents, couples, and siblings workshops,
family reviews, weekly telephone conferences, and access during crisis.
Family dynamics of enmeshment and dependency often create
additional difficulties in the separation and individualization process.
Because therapists are trained to address systemic concerns that usually
arise during placement, families have a unique opportunity to alter and
redirect energies that previously may have contributed to family conflict
and/or developmental arrest.
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Tuition for the program includes all New Lifestyles program costs;
personal living allowances for housing; utilities, meals; local taxi service; and personal spending. Tuition also includes the comprehensive
clinical services provided in-house by New Lifestyles staff. Tuition does
not include university or college costs, registration, transportation to
and from the Winchester area, outside medical or clinical services, or
any personal expenses incurred by students beyond the allowances set
by the New Lifestyles staff. Please see our website www.newlifestyles.
net or call for the most recent tuition information.
New Lifestyles offers a quarterly contract. Please check with your
health insurance representative and accountant to determine whether
the New Lifestyles tuition fee or some portion may be reimbursable or
may be tax deductible as a medical expense.
Applying for Enrollment
Contact us at 540-722-4521 and ask for a student application.
Obtain copies of medical and treatment records.
Obtain copies of school and/or college records.
Send a completed student application and copies of the records,
together with a $500 application fee, to the New Lifestyles office
at 230 West Boscawen Street, Winchester, VA 22601.
We’ll review your application and call you to schedule an initial interview. New Lifestyles operates on a rolling admission basis with limited
program closures during the winter. In some cases immediate placement can be arranged following the initial interview. In other cases,
placement may be delayed pending availability of space.
Call today for your application!
540-722-4521
Or visit our website www.newlifestyles.net
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Kenneth L. Cuave, PsyD is the founder of New Lifestyles and is licensed
in Virginia as a clinical psychologist. He earned a doctoral degree in
clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University and concentrated
at the master’s level in psychometrics. Areas of specialty and/or interest
include the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders (Axis II) and
nonverbal learning disabilities. Dr. Cuave also enjoys administration and
interpretation of the Rorschach Inkblot Method.
Dr. Cuave’s work experiences have concentrated in community residential, independent living, and therapeutic settings with emerging adult
populations since 1981. He is committed to the provision of quality
therapeutic services within the least restrictive setting. His goal is to avoid
trauma that can be associated with more institutionalized placements
during emerging adulthood.
Pamela Throckmorton, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist with a
doctoral degree in psychology from James Madison University, a master’s
degree in counseling from Ball State University and an undergraduate
degree in English from Emory and Henry College. Her professional
experience includes positions in teaching, counseling and program
administration located in both the United States and Europe. A veteran
of the United States Army, Dr. Throckmorton served as a member of the
medical service corps and as an instructor in the Behavioral Science Division of the Academy of Health Sciences at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Dr. Throckmorton’s clinical interests and background encompass treatment
of addictions, eating disorders, and major affective disorders, to include
depression and bipolar disorder. Dr. Throckmorton’s responsibilities at New
Lifestyles include intensive individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy,
and supervision of the pre-doctoral internship program. Currently, in addition to her responsibilities at New Lifestyles, Dr. Throckmorton teaches a
class at James Madison University where she is an assistant professor in the
School of Psychology.
Nestled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley
of Virginia, Winchester is approximately
70 miles west of Washington, DC and
an hour’s drive from Dulles International
Airport. Winchester, founded in 1744, is
a small city rich in history and traditional
American values. All New Lifestyles
student housing is located within walking
distance of the New Lifestyles offices in the
Winchester Historic District. Recreational
activities in the nearby Blue Ridge
Mountains include snow skiing, hiking,
fishing, and canoeing.
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230 W. Boscawen St.
Winchester, VA 22601
540-722-4521