Acute Inpatient Services for Children
Kāhi Mōhala’s Acute Children’s Inpatient Services are specially designed for children who require an intensive, short-term level of care for diagnostic evaluation, crisis intervention and psychiatric stabilization.
Population Profile
· Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
· Affective Disorders
· Eating Disorders
· Adjustment Disorders
· Conduct Disorders
· Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Services Overview
The services deliver complex inter-disciplinary psychiatric treatments and skilled care in a manner consistent with the developmental needs of 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 child entering the Acute Children’s Inpatient Services. These assessments then serve as the basis for an individualized treatment plan.
Family services including parenting education and support are a strong focus of the treatment. Parental involvement in the 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 each individual child’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
- Occupational Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Aftercare and Transition Planning
The treatment’s goal is to help each child and the child’s family 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 Kāhi Mōhala’s continuum of care. This treatment can also continue with other community programs or at home.
Discharge planning is initiated upon admission, and is developed and reviewed in inter-disciplinary team conferences. Discharge criteria are individually determined for each child based on the comprehensive clinical assessment, family and social support network, the child’s level of self care, patient and parent education, and the ongoing treatment team evaluation. The treatment team welcomes the opportunity to teach parents, caregivers and schools techniques that will help the child continue to succeed after discharge. Before each child is discharged, a case manager assists in establishing an appropriate network of community-based support.