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Chestnut Ridge Center

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Adult Services

Adult Programs at Chestnut Ridge Center are designed to provide intensive treatment that promotes a productive return to family, job and community for patients who are 18 years of age and older.

A multidisciplinary team evaluates the patient and designs treatment options through individual, group, and family therapy. The multidisciplinary team (in conjunction with the WVU

Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry) staffs the unit with nurses, mental health specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and rehabilitation therapists for a full continuum of care through inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient options.

Inpatient Programs
Patients who require comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment to stabilize their psychiatric symptoms may enter a short-term program on the General Adult Psychiatric Acute Unit or the Intensive Care Unit/Geriatric Acute Care.

Each unit program provides the patient a highly supervised and structured environment to assist in stabilizing his/her psychiatric crisis. Patients are admitted for a variety of disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and other serious psychiatric conditions.

Services may include:

• Comprehensive evaluation and stabilization
• Living and coping skills training
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) when needed
• Independent life skills training
• Group therapy
• Medication evaluation and management
• Case management and transition to the patient's physician, therapist, and other community agencies

Addiction Services
Adults with addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs are offered a variety of treatment services to meet their individual needs.  Services include inpatient hospitalization and detoxification, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient individual and group therapy.

Partial Hospitalization
Adult patients who do not require the level of supervision and support provided by an inpatient program, but who need more intensive intervention than is readily provided in most outpatient settings, may enter a day program. Components consist of group therapy focused on current life stressors, skill-building groups, family therapy and coping skills groups along with case management. Transportation may be provided as required.

Outpatient Services
Adult patients may be seen individually, in group, or with families for treatment of depression and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, thought disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, dementias, cognitive disorders, trauma, addiction, sleep disorders, and family/interpersonal conflicts, etc.