Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health
The Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Service is an acute psychiatric unit that offers stabilization, diagnostic assessment, and short-term multi-disciplinary treatment for adolescents ages 12-18; 18 year-old adolescents must be enrolled in high school and live at home or with a responsible adult.
Children ages 12-13 require parental consent for admission. Children ages 14 and up must consent to admission along with parental consent to be admitted.
Each patient will receive an individual treatment plan that will be regularly reviewed and adjusted with input from the patient, their family, and members of the multidisciplinary treatment team, which includes physicians, nurses, licensed clinical social workers, teachers, milieu therapists, and mental health technicians.
Services
- Psychiatric stabilization and implementation of strict safety precaution
- Comprehensive diagnostic assessment, including a general medical evaluation
- Medication administration when indicated
- Family therapy
- Parent support activities
- Academic assessment and homework oversight provided by a full-time teacher
- Group-based activities including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, recreation, art, and yoga
- Individual psychotherapy
- Spiritual support (by request)
- Discharge planning