Acute Inpatient Services for Adolescents
Kāhi Mōhala’s Acute Adolescent Inpatient Services provide a structured environment for adolescents in need of a comprehensive evaluation, intensive treatment, and psychiatric management and stabilization. The services are specifically designed for the changing needs of young people.
Population Profile
· Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
· Affective Disorders
· Conduct Disorders
· Eating Disorders
· Thought Disorders
· Alcohol or Substance Abuse
· Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Services Overview
These services deliver complex inter-disciplinary psychiatric treatment and skilled care in a manner consistent with the developmental needs of the children. The structured, intensive therapeutic activities and supervised short-term treatment environment are focused on patient evaluation, stabilization and crisis resolution. A comprehensive set of clinical assessments is completed for each adolescent entering the Acute Adolescent Inpatient Services and serves as the basis for the individualized treatment plan.
Family services including parenting education and support are a strong focus of the treatment. Parental involvement in their child’s treatment is important and strongly encouraged.
Inpatient Service Components
A full range of resources and services allow the physician led treatment team of skilled and tenured professionals to tailor therapy to meet the individual adolescent’s needs. Components of each treatment plan may include some of the following services:
- Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment
- Individual, Group and Family Therapy
- Medication Intervention, Monitoring and Education
- Nursing Supervision
- Substance Abuse Education
- Social Skills Groups
- Family Education and Support Groups
- Therapeutic Recreational Activities
- Art Therapy
- Aftercare and Transition Planning
The treatment goal is to help each adolescent and adolescent’s family to develop coping strategies and skills that will enable them to more effectively self manage in a less restrictive setting.
Discharge/Aftercare Services
Kāhi Mōhala is committed to providing the least intensive level of care clinically appropriate to patients while promoting intensive family involvement. As soon as patient progress allows, treatment shifts to the least restrictive level of care within the Kāhi Mōhala continuum of care. This treatment may also continue at other community programs or at home.
Discharge planning is initiated upon admission, and is developed and reviewed in multi-disciplinary team conferences. Discharge criteria are individually determined for each adolescent based on the comprehensive clinical assessment, family and social support network, patient and parent education, and the ongoing treatment team evaluation. Adolescents leaving the hospital may be referred to continued treatment services, group homes, school programs, support and self-help, groups and other outpatient programs. Before the patient is discharged, a clinical case manager works with the family and patient to establish an appropriate network of community-based support.