Residential treatment center (RTC) for children

Offered at mental health treatment centers Details:

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• name: Residential treatment center (RTC) for children
• category: Facility Type
• Type: Uncategorized

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Description:
Facility not licensed as a psychiatric hospital that primarily provides individually planned programs of mental health treatment in a residential care setting for children and youth younger than 18. (Some RTCs for children may accept persons through age 21.) This type of facility must have a clinical program that is directed by a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or psychiatric nurse who has a master's or a doctoral degree.

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