Patient services

Adolescent psychiatric services

Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital provides brief, acute inpatient care and intensive outpatient treatment to adolescents and young adults ages 12-18 with a broad spectrum of psychiatric problems such as mood disorders, psychotic disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, trauma, developmental disorders and disruptive behavior disorders.

Utilizing a multidisciplinary staff, both the inpatient and outpatient programs approach treatment with a comprehensive view of the adolescent. Each patient is assigned to a treatment team consisting of a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and rehabilitative therapy staff. The service draws upon its expertise in working with adolescents with severe psychiatric and substance abuse problems. A full range of services is offered:

• Assessment
• Stabilization of psychiatric symptoms
• Skills teaching
• Family intervention
• Extensive aftercare planning

Inpatient

The Adolescent Inpatient Program is a 15-bed acute care unit located within Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. This co-ed unit contains seven double patient rooms and two common areas with substantial natural light, comfortable furnishings and both indoor and outdoor areas used for recreational therapy activities.

Clinical services may include:

• Comprehensive and multidisciplinary biopsychosocial evaluation
• Psychological and brief neuropsychological assessment
• Psychopharmacologic evaluation and management
• Crisis-oriented intensive family therapy
• Individual therapy
• Consultation to schools and residential programs
• Case management and collaboration with each adolescent's school, outpatient clinicians, family and other community agencies to facilitate an integrated approach, to establish comprehensive transition plans and to promote the adolescent's optimal functioning.

Adolescents in need of a structured, supported outpatient program may participate in the Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program as part of their transition from the hospital.

Information or referrals
Admission (203) 688-9907
E-mail

Intensive Outpatient
The Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program is a structured, Monday through Friday, after-school program.

The program provides comprehensive assessment, supervision, structure and support within a nurturing group therapy format. These young patients may be in need of more than weekly outpatient therapy, be at risk for psychiatric hospitalization or require assistance transitioning from the hospital to the community.

Clinical services may include:

• Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial evaluations
• Comprehensive and multidisciplinary biopsychosocial evaluations; psychological and brief neuropsychological assessment.
• Cognitive behavioral skill building group therapies that focus on feelings management, problem solving and social skills
• Group psychotherapy
• Intensive family therapy
• Milieu therapy to help the adolescent with effective management of behavioral, emotional and substance abuse problems on an outpatient basis
• Skill teaching to increase tolerance and regulation of feelings and interpersonal effectiveness
• Case management and collaboration with each adolescent's school, outpatient clinicians, family and other community agencies to facilitate an integrated approach, to establish comprehensive transition plans and to promote the adolescent's optimal functioning.
• Consultation to schools and community agencies involved in the patient's care
• Medication consultation to community psychiatrists

Information or referrals
Admission (203) 688-9907
E-mail

Last revised: December 8, 2004, (jj)

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