Adult Services

Adult Services

There are times in life when everyone may experience particularly difficult or stressful periods such as the loss of a loved one, divorce, anxiety, family stress, or a job loss. For some adults, these stresses become overwhelming and can lead to more serious difficulties such as phobias, depression, mood disorders, or eating disorders. Prairie View offers adults evaluation and treatment services for these issues as well as for severe and persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia and multiple personality disorders. Treatment for adults includes outpatient services, partial hospitalization, inpatient hospitalization, and education and consultation.

Prairie View's Outpatient Services offers a complete continuum of care that facilitates early intervention and treatment that is less costly and less restrictive than hospitalization, and is capable of generating change that is both clinically and statistically significant. Outpatient services are available to children, adolescents, adults, and older adults for a number of mental health issues including depression, anxiety, chemical dependency, marital problems, family issues, eating disorders, grief, dementia, sexually related issues, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anger, and more. Prairie View has a professional staff of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and nurses that work with patients to establish and achieve goals, and desired outcomes with therapy.

Prairie View's Partial Hospital services provide an important intermediate step on the continuum of care between 24-hour inpatient and outpatient services. This step down from full hospitalization provides both an alternative to hospitalization and a transitional treatment program for individuals who no longer require 24-hour care, but need more structure than is available in outpatient treatment. The less restrictive and less expensive partial hospital environment makes it possible to provide short-term intensive services to patients without removing them from their community.

Prairie View's Inpatient Hospital is located on the Newton campus. There are 30 staffed beds for acute care which include 15 beds for adolescents and 15 for adults and older adults. In addition, there are 20 beds for the intensive adolescent residential program. Patients in the hospital are provided care 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The treatment process varies depending on the needs of the patient. The patients is seen as part of the family system, and families or caregivers can expect to be included in the treatment process.