OUR PROGRAM CONTINUUM:

The acute inpatient program treats adults in an intensive therapeutic structure, providing medical and psychiatric stabilization and 24-hour nursing care for patients experiencing critical symptoms. It offers a comprehensive treatment approach to stabilizing acute psychiatric and addictive disease problems in adults of all ages.

Patients in crisis will find a safe and structured environment that offers compassion and hope. A multi-disciplinary treatment team including physicians, nurses, activities therapists and social individualized treatment plan is initiated with a special emphasis placed on medication management, as well as individual, group and family therapy.

The ultimate goal of treatment is to stabilize the immediate crisis and to enable the patient to return to the community with skills to promote personal and emotional development, relationship building and independence. Interventions are designed to provide patients with practical tools to manage their symptoms improve their coping abilities and solve their problems. A primary focus of treatment is placed on relapse prevention and education.

In order to reduce the need for future hospitalization, discharge planning is seen as a priority. Staff works towards identifying and coordinating community resource support and aftercare services to assist each patient in meeting their goals. Whenever possible, and clinically appropriate, a patient's family is engaged in the therapeutic process. Family or social support involvement is seen as being a critical issue in the area of relapse prevention.

Adult Partial Hospitalization

Adult Outpatient by Referral

When Outpatient Therapy is deemed to be the most effective course of treatment, Peachford provides a variety of outpatient services as well as a referral network to area health professionals.

What is ECT?

ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy) is a treatment for severe episodes of major depression, mania, and some types of schizophrenia.  It involves the use of a brief, controlled electrical current to produce a seizure within the brain.  This seizure activity is believed to bring about certain biochemical changers which may cause your symptoms to diminish or to even disappear.  A series of seizures, generally 4-12, given at a rate of two or three per week, is required to produce such a therapeutic effect.  Sometimes a smaller or larger number may be necessary.

Although there have been many advances in the treatment of mental disorders in recent years, ECT remains the most effective, fastest and/or safest treatment for many cases, particularly when alternative treatments, usually medications are either not effective or not safe. Your doctor will discuss with you why ECT is being recommended in your case and what alternative treatments may be available. ECT is most effective in major depression, where it has a strong beneficial effect up to 80-90% of patients. Still there is no guarantee that ECT, or for that matter, any treatment will be effective.

Is ECT Safe?

All treatments have risks and side effects; however, not treating your depression also carries potentially significant risks. Prior to ECT patients will undergo a careful medical, psychiatric and laboratory evaluation to make sure that the treatments can be administered in the safest, most effective manner possible.  Medications may be adjusted to minimize the risk and maximize the effectiveness of the treatments. For most patients the side effects of ECT are relatively minor. 

• Psychiatrists
• Internal Medicine Physician
• Nurses
• Social Workers
• Case Managers
• Activity Therapists
• Substance Abuse Counselors

• Individual therapy
• Family therapy
• Group therapy
• Drug/alcohol education
• Recreational therapy
• Activity therapy
• Medication education
• Pet Therapy