Crittenton ServicesResidential Treatment in Wheeling, WV
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Crittenton Services is a licensed, accredited behavioral health provider operating since 1895, offering a continuum of behavioral healthcare throughout West Virginia. The organization specializes in residential treatment for adolescent girls and young women who are pregnant and/or parenting, with residential care being the only licensed facility of its kind in the state. Beyond residential services, Crittenton provides community-based counseling through its Wellspring Family Services program, as well as educational and childcare services including Willow Tree Learning Academy and trauma-informed elementary school programs. The agency's mission is to instill hope and support through services that empower individuals, families, and diverse communities to heal, grow, and thrive. Located in Wheeling, West Virginia, Crittenton Services has over 125 years of experience serving children and families.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Activity therapy
Activity Therapy. Structured therapeutic activities, recreation, movement, hands-on tasks, used as a vehicle for connection and emotional regulation. Often paired with talk therapy in residential and group programs.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Couples/family therapy
Family Therapy. Brings the people closest to the recovery into the room. Less about blame, more about updating the patterns that fed the cycle so the home becomes part of the recovery.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Integrated mental and substance use disorder treatment
Integrated Treatment. Treats addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions in the same plan, rather than sequentially. Most clinically effective when both are present.
Individual psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy. One-to-one sessions with a licensed clinician. The standard-bearer of mental-health care; most evidence-based plans build around it.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
Telehealth Therapy. Real clinical sessions delivered over video. Same evidence base as in-person care for most conditions; meets you where you actually are instead of where the office is.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
- Residential/24-hour residential
Facility
- Multi-setting mental health facility (e.g., non-hospital residential plus either outpatient and/or partial hospitalization/day treatment)
Emergency services
- Crisis intervention team
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Family psychoeducation
- Case management service
- Suicide prevention services
- Education services
Education & counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
- Young Adults
- Adults
Special programs
- Young adults
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
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