When You or someone you know experiences a Mental Health or Addiction Crisis, Alvarado Parkway Institute is here to help!
The inpatient program at Alvarado Parkway Institute provides highly structured mental health care for adults 18 years of age and older with significant risk factors and severe psychiatric symptoms. Each client receives an individualized plan of care with an emphasis on rapid stabilization, understanding the signs of mental illness and recommended next level of treatment, community re-integration, and discharge planning. Inpatient treatment is led by a psychiatrist and carried out by a team of skilled clinicians who work together to provide a therapy program that will lead to a successful recovery.
What is inpatient care?
Inpatient care is designed for individuals who struggle with severe symptoms of mental illness, addictive disorders or dual diagnosis. At Alvarado Parkway Institute, our team of licensed therapists and nurses provide around-the-clock care until clients are stable and no longer pose a risk to themselves or others. This intensive level of treatment allows clients to focus on their recovery in a safe, controlled environment without exposure to outside influences. Clients enrolled in inpatient care participate in individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, family therapy, medication management, and other evidenced based treatments to help them achieve stability and avoid re-hospitalization.
Who requires inpatient care?
Inpatient mental health care is typically recommended for individuals who:
- Need to be medically monitored for detox
- Are at risk for suicide or pose a danger to themselves
- Exhibit aggressive or threatening behavior toward others
- Are unable to safely care for themselves due to mental illness and/or addiction
- Require constant monitoring by mental health professionals to remain safe
- Remain unable to manage symptoms through outpatient care alone
- Experience severe hallucinations and delusions
- Need extensive help with medication management
- Experience out-of-control thoughts or feelings
- Experience severe depression or mood swings such that they are unable to effectively carry out daily activities
- Require psychiatric and/or medication evaluation
- Experience significant deterioration in functioning
Inpatient services
Our inpatient services program is customizable to help clients achieve stabilization, alleviate the symptoms of mental illness and discuss next level of treatment to prepare for re-integration. At Alvarado Parkway Institute, clients may receive any combination of the following services to help them accomplish treatment goals and avoid relapse and re-hospitalization:
- Psychiatric assessment
- Individual psychotherapy
- Group psychotherapy
- Family psychotherapy
- Medication monitoring
- Trigger identification
- Stress management
- Patient education
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Detoxification
- Continuing care program
- Relapse prevention
- Relaxation training
Once a client has stabilized and accomplished his or her treatment goals, we may refer him or her to our partial hospitalization program (PHP). In PHP, clients continue to receive daytime structure and support from our medical staff but return home in the evenings to be with friends and family. Ultimately, clients who succeed in PHP will transition to our intensive outpatient program and then into the care of individual counseling programs.
If you or someone you know may be in need of inpatient services, please call us today at 619-333-7050.
If you or someone you know is preparing for an Inpatient stay with API, take a look for a list of frequently asked questions and learn more about what to expect during the stay.
