Child Psychiatric Program

The Two Rivers Child Psychiatric Program is designed to treat children, ages 5-12.  These patients are experiencing serious behavioral, psychological, and/or cognitive disturbances. Such disturbances are often accompanied by an inability to function at home or school. 

Symptoms and indications of children experiencing mental health disorders
children may display any of the following:

• Explosive, aggressive, or violent behaviors
  
  
• Prolonged periods of sadness or withdrawal
  
  
• Hyperactivity, anxiety, or panic
  
  
• Difficulty sleeping, paying attention, or learning
  
  
• Persistent nightmares
  
  
• Consistent bedwetting not attributable to a physical or learning problem
  
  
• Trauma resulting from emotional, physical, or sexual abuse
  
  
• Substance abuse

Two Rivers offers a comprehensive treatment approach that stabilizes acute child mental and behavioral psychiatric problems.  Our multidisciplinary treatment team consists of psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, expressive therapists (recreation, music, and/or art), and case managers.  This team provides the following services in a supportive, dedicated environment:

• Crisis intervention, intensive assessment, acute care stabilization, and referral
  
  
• Evaluation, recommendation, and management of mental health medication
  
  
• Education and therapy groups that assists children in detecting inappropriate responses to stressors and developing resilient coping mechanisms to reduce negative behaviors
  
  
• Alcohol and drug use prevention that educates children to select healthy behaviors and helps them cope with negative and positive feelings such as anger, sadness, anxiety, frustration, boredom, happiness, reward, excitement, and peace.
  
  
• Experiential therapy services that guides children in developing recovery coping skills.  Techniques include art, music, relaxation, stress management, and recreation.
  
  
• Comprehensive discharge planning and, where appropriate, referral to more intensive levels of treatment (residential treatment facilities) or less restrictive levels of care (partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient therapy/counseling, and outpatient psychiatric medication management)
  
  
• Family collaboration and discharge planning sessions informing family members of discharge planning recommendations and educating them  regarding mental health disorders, clinical treatment, and healthy relationship building and repair
  
  
• If applicable, referral into the neurobehavioral program. Children suitable for this program must display patterns of aggressive behavior occurring with little or no provocation.  Such behavior is unplanned and impulsive, without social or material gain.  It is intense, destructive, and repetitive.  The origin of the behavior is frequently due to brain dysfunction.