Massachusetts Center for Adolescent Wellness (MCAW) offers group therapy and activities as part of the mental health program for teens. Groups are facilitated by licensed clinicians and utilized as a tool for developing skills and reducing symptoms of mental health disorders.
TIME | LOCATION | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | MINUTES | ||||
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8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome, Get Settled, Use the Bathroom Check In With Clinician Use Sign In Protocols | ||||||||||
9:00-9:30 | All Guests To Bonus Room For Goals Group/Check In/Brain Teaser Of The Day | 30 | |||||||||
9:35-10:25 |
Group A to Room 1 |
Mindfulness/ Relaxation |
Social Skills |
FUSION (S/U + MH) |
Distress Tolerance |
Crisis Planning/ SUD |
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Group B To Room 2 |
Community | Community | Community | Community | Community | 50 | |||||
10:25-10:40 | Break/Transition To Group | ||||||||||
10:45-11:35 |
Group A to Room 2 |
Community | Community | Community | Community | Community | |||||
Group B to Room 1 |
Mindfulness/ Relaxation |
Social Skills |
FUSION (S/U + MH) |
Distress Tolerance |
Crisis Planning/ SUD |
50 | |||||
11:30-12:20 | LUNCH | ||||||||||
12:20-1:10 |
Group A Bonus Room |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
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Group B Room 1 |
Relapse Prevention |
Anxiety & Stress |
Anger Management |
Self-Esteem |
Solution Seekers |
50 | |||||
1:10-1:15 | Break/Transition to Group | ||||||||||
1:15-2:05 |
Group A Room 1 |
Relapse Prevention |
Anxiety & Stress |
Anger Management |
Self-Esteem |
Solution Seekers |
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Group B Bonus Room |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
Expressive Therapy |
50 | |||||
1:50-1:55 | Transition To Group | ||||||||||
2:00-3:30 | Wrap Up Group, Evening Goals, Afternoon Community Action/Discussion/Games | 90 |
Take the first step towards a path of healing and happiness. Call (855) 940-MCAW or verify your insurance online.
The foundation in learning to incorporate ongoing mindfulness practice into everyday life. The focus is on increasing emotional intelligence, motivation, and social skills. Goals include reducing anxiety, depression, and stress using mindful meditation practices, writing, open sharing, and individual work.
Focusing on issues or themes from media and how to manage feelings and emotions on the topics. Working together to discuss the issue, working on interpersonal skills of understanding and respecting differences in opinions, and challenging our thoughts. During this group, clients will intermittently see a therapist for individual therapy.
Participating in activities like music, art, yoga, or games, or heading outside for adventure to focus on the mind and body connection.
Helping develop skills to keep, make, and maintain friendships or other types of relationships. Encouraging independence of thought with respect for other people. Encouraging conflict resolution, problem-solving skills, utilizing role plays, learning body language, discouraging bullying, etc.
Discussing difficulties with worrying by breaking down thinking and processing. Developing coping skills and identifying anxiety and stress triggers.
Exploring how two issues can manifest simultaneously and learning how to deal with the issues together. Focusing on how substances can create more challenges with mental health and discovering why turning to substances in an attempt to feel better. Working together to plan for success in managing the issues simultaneously.
Understanding what triggers anger and how to reduce angry outbursts. Role-playing and individual work can be tools that are utilized to help with managing anger.
Sitting in worry, sadness, and distress due to situations that are out of control can be challenging. Learning how to deal with these situations without engaging in behaviors that can be damaging.
Focusing on characteristics and activities that generate positive feelings and self-worth.
Preparing for crisis situations whether the crisis is big or small.
The foundation in learning to incorporate ongoing mindfulness practice into everyday life. The focus is on increasing emotional intelligence, motivation, and social skills. Goals include reducing anxiety, depression, and stress using mindful meditation practices, writing, open sharing, and individual work.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to