Therapeutic Community
Austin Lakes Hospital’s inpatient care operates on a therapeutic community model. This model emphasizes the need for each individual to take responsibility for their own behavior and to accept the positive and negative consequences of their choices.
Inpatient Therapeutic Treatments
Individual Therapy – The psychiatrist will supervise each patient’s care and see the patient in individual sessions at least six days per week. Many patients will receive a recommendation for outpatient individual counseling and the patient’s social worker will assist with selecting a suitable outpatient counselor.
Case Management – A social worker will be assigned to manage each patient’s case throughout that patient’s hospitalization
Group Therapy – Patients will be assigned to a therapy group based on the types of issues that brought the patient to the program. Types of group therapy include cognitive behavior, interpersonal relationships, coping skills, assertiveness, anger management and psychoeducation.
Family Therapy – A structured family meeting will be arranged if the patient and treatment team determine that a family meeting would have therapeutic benefit.
Therapeutic Recreation Group – Recreation therapy utilizes various activities as a form of active treatment to promote the improvement of a patient’s health and well-being, thus enhancing a patient’s quality of life and productivity. Therapeutic Recreation interventions include self expression, stress management, problem solving, resource education, social skills, journaling and leisure/recreation skills.
Psycho-Education Group – Provides patients with valuable information and education regarding diagnosis, medication stabilization, wellness, and behavior management techniques.
Spiritual Care – Many patients turn to spiritual resources during illness and benefit from spiritual counseling during their hospitalization. Our Chaplain is trained to encourage beneficial spiritual coping processes and help patients and families draw upon their spiritual and religious resources to more effectively manage difficult emotions.
Pet Therapy – Patients will have the opportunity to interact with a trained pet therapy dog and therapist.
Healing Arts techniques such as Yoga and Tai Chi
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