Re-Education Services philosophy is based on Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and the principles of Nicholas Hobbs . The premises are as follows:

– that all behavior has meaning
– behavior reflects needs

The Principles of Re-Education (Nicholas Hobbs 1982)

Re-Education Services has adopted the 12 principles of Re-Education as a
foundation for recruiting and educating professional, competent, and nurturing
staff.

• Life is to be lived now, not in the past, and lived in the future only as a present challenge.
• Trust between child and adult is essential…
• Competence makes a difference, and children and adolescents should be helped to be good at something, and especially at schoolwork.
• Time is an ally, working on the side of growth in a period of development when life has a tremendous forward thrust.
• Self-control can be taught and children and adolescents helped to manage their behavior without the development of psycho dynamic insight.
• Intelligence can be taught. Intelligence is a dynamic, evolving, and malleable capacity for making good choices in living.
• Feelings should be nurtured, shared spontaneously, controlled when necessary, expressed when too long repressed, and explored with trusted others.
• The group is very important to young people, and it can become a major source of instruction in growing up.
• Ceremony and ritual give order, stability, and confidence to troubled children and adolescents, whose lives are often in considerable disarray.
• The body is the armature of the self, the physical self around which the psychological self is constructed.
• Communities are important for children and youth, but the uses and benefits of community must be experienced to be learned.
• A child should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for the morrow.