When Brita led the horse out of the trailer I was astounded. I had never seen such a weak, mangy looking animal in my life. I couldn’t believe the horse was able to stand on his own.  His ribs stuck out and his coat was in patches. There were scars all over his body. “He…

The mother of one of our wonderful graduates sent this message today: Hello,  I just finished looking over some blogs on the website..It brings tears to my eyes to see the stories becasue they hit me so close in the heart.  I felt some things on my heart that I just wanted to share.  It…

In a recent session I worked with a young man who was in denial about the sexual abuse of his sister. We talked about the language of accountability. He was heavily in denial and struggled to accept himself and give an honest account of his behavior to his parents. The following week, during a tour…

You could hear the anguish in her voice. “We want hope for our son,” the woman said. “We just feel so frustrated with everything we have tried before.” Her son is acting out sexually in a way that has ostracized him from his community and made his parents his jailers. Other programs, ones that promised…

“As clinicians, we work to provide our patients with the best possible therapy,” notes Dr. Triston Morgan. “But we also need to be sensitive to the most cost efficient delivery.”         Dr. Morgan serves as Admissions Director at Discovery Academy, Oxbow Academy’s sister program.            He and co-author D. Russell Crane of Brigham Young University were recently…