Adolescents
The clinical team at Peak View offers
Behavioral Treatment for Adolescents
Helping an adolescent get the treatment they need for mental health issues can be challenging. Parents and caregivers may find the process of seeking help to be overwhelming, not only because of concern for the adolescent, but because of their own emotions as well.
Peak View Behavioral Health makes this process easier by offering psychiatric services specifically designed for patients between the ages of 13 and 17. Our inpatient treatment options are available for adolescents who are admitted both voluntarily or involuntarily and includes immediate assessment, diagnosis, and rapid stabilization of acute psychiatric symptoms.
Adolescent Warning Signs
Peak View Behavioral Health’s adolescent treatment program works with young people who have a wide range of psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral issues, including:
- Voicing suicidality or making suicidal comments such as, “I’d be better off dead,” or, “I want to go to sleep and not wake up.”
- Problems with concentration, memory, or ability to think clearly
- Loss of interest in things that they used to enjoy
- Changes in Sleep
- Excessive worry
- Feeling sad, empty, hopeless, or worthless
- Changes in Appetite
- Hearing or seeing things that other people don’t
- Self-Injury/Self Harming behaviors such as cutting, burning, etc.
Adolescent Inpatient Services
- Assessment, diagnosis, and rapid stabilization of acute psychiatric issues
- Structured, therapeutic environment that meets the needs of acute conditions and problems
- Focused on smooth transition to less intensive, appropriate levels of follow-up care and support
- Psychiatrist-led multi-disciplinary treatment team of clinicians provides multi-modal psychotherapeutic treatment
- Coordination and discharge planning with families or other caregivers, community agencies and insurance companies
Adolescent Outpatient Services
- Continued physician oversight and medication management
- Client continues to live at home, while attending the outpatient center during the day
- Change to- Further stabilization and transition back into productive activities at home, school and in the community
- Nutritionally balanced lunch and snacks served daily
