Children & Adolescents
The clinical team at Highland Hospital 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.
Highland Hospital makes this process easier by offering psychiatric services specifically designed for patients between the ages of 9 to 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
Highland Hospital’s adolescent treatment program works with young people who have a wide range of psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral issues, including:
- Acute psychiatric symptoms (Example: hallucinations or delusion)
- Risk for self-injury or injury to others, with an inability to manage or develop a safety plan
- Inability to manage daily activities
- Significant anger or defiance issues
Adolescent Residential Service Highlights
- Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ongoing psychiatric, emotional, or behavioral challenges
- Hospital-based, therapeutic, secure environment with the ability to meet the individual needs of our patients
- Evidence-based therapeutic programs designed to provide stress management skills and medication management, and to address substance abuse or dependence
- NC Licensed private school with fully accredited teachers
- Coordination and discharge planning with families or other caregivers, community agencies, and insurance companies
