A therapeutic boarding school (TBS), alternatively known as an emotional growth boarding school, is a boarding school based on the therapeutic community model that offers an educational program together with specialized structure and supervision for students with emotional and behavioral problems, substance abuse problems, or learning difficulties.NATSAP Program Definitions, NATSAP National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, accessed January 4, 2009Types of Boarding School, Boarding School Review website, accessed January 5, 2009