Care for teen mental health in Idaho Falls, Idaho
The Behavioral Health Center (BHC) at EIRMC provides both inpatient and intensive outpatient mental healthcare for adolescents ages 12 - 17.
Adolescent Acute Inpatient Care
In our Adolescent Acute Care Program, we provide intensive inpatient treatment for teenagers experiencing psychiatric emergencies or needing comprehensive evaluation and treatment. Designed for patients between 12 and 17 years old, our therapeutic environment is comfortable, safe and friendly.
This program helps meet the acute-care psychiatric needs of adolescents who may be: dangerous to themselves or others, unable to provide for their own health or safety; behaviorally or emotionally dysfunctional requiring hospitalization; or who need diagnostic treatment services usually offered in an inpatient setting.
Treatment involves a variety of expert services, including:
- Case management services
- Educational groups
- Experiential therapy
- Individual, group and family therapy
- Medication management
- Recreation therapy
We help arrange appropriate services for a successful transition after discharge. Patients and their families learn skills to help create a healthy, nurturing environment to increase the odds of enjoying a satisfying, productive life.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a short-term structured outpatient treatment program that helps teens return to optimal functioning and normal activities. This is for teens who need more care than is tpically available in outpatient counseling, but for whom inpatient hospitalization is not needed.
Led by an interdisciplinary team, we use evidence-based treatment to provide patients with new tools to master practical challenges of everyday life.
Our programs help people who:
- Have a mental health condition and want skills to achieve mental wellness
- Have symptoms of depression or anxiety that impairs daily functioning
- Desire clinical support to maintain stabilization
The benefits of IOP include:
- Interpersonal skills-building to improve relationships; develop new coping skills; manage stress and life changes; and achieve goals
- Group therapy with others who may be dealing with similar lived experiences
- Structured, healing environment led by a licensed therapist
- Medication management
Treatment focuses on:
- Dealing with stress, anxiety, and depression effectively
- Social skills, self-awareness and self-esteem
- Healthy communication and boundaries
- Goalsetting, life skills, and coping skills