Program areas at Brook Lane Behavioral Services
Brook Lane's licensed clinical staff offers outpatient therapy to help individuals build coping skills, promote positive well-being and battle addiction. Counseling sessions can be for individuals, couples, groups and/or families. Therapy involves assessment, evaluation and medication management if necessary. Brook Lane's partial hospitalization program (or day treatment) allows children to receive structured, intensive therapy monday through friday, during the day, and return home each evening. Beginning with a psychiatric evaluation, a treatment plan is tailored for each child that may include individual, group, or family therapy, as well as medication management and education. The program focuses on helping children cope with anxiety, depression, anger management, social skills, self-esteem and problem solving.
Laurel hall is a licensed, non-public school, grades 1 through 12, designed to provide education and therapy, in a structured setting, for students with emotional and Behavioral challenges. Children must be referred from their home schools based on an individualized education program (iep). Staff include certified special education teachers, Behavioral specialists, clinical social workers and nurses. Brook Lane has two laurel hall locations: one in hagerstown, Maryland and one in frederick, Maryland.