Alternative to Wilderness Therapy

Stabilization

Before sending your teen to a wilderness therapy program, consider a mental health hospital like ViewPoint Center to help your teen. Unlike other residential mental health facilities, ViewPoint Center offers safe facilities where our patients can stabilize and rebalance. While not every patient needs this step, for those who do, our Medical Team determines how well medications are working and the potential side effects of each medication separately. Once our patients are stabilized we can start the assessment and treatment process.

Assessment

Assessment is about clarifying diagnosis. We begin using a range of assessment tests. We continue with individual and group therapy as well as residential and academic activities designed to give a more comprehensive and clearer assessment.

Diagnosis

Nearly 75% of patients entering Viewpoint are misdiagnosed. As one of the leading private mental health hospitals, our diagnoses are focused on a full medication evaluation, diagnostic assessment, and then continual reassessment. Our comprehensive approach and team environment offers a clearer picture of how to help your child going forward.

Treatment

We work exclusively with teens aged 12 – 18 in a unique, individualized setting. Typically patients stay 5-6 weeks. The length of stay allows us to create a substantive diagnostic plan that best fits the patients needs for future success.

Often, patients may go on to participate in wilderness therapy programs to further their healing process along.

Taking the First Steps

ViewPoint Center is a leading, licensed mental health hospital that works to treat mental illness in teens.

For young men and women ages 12 – 18.
For teens struggling with behavioral, psychological, psychosocial, neurological, educational, and chemical dependency. We offer a social anxiety and depression test for teens to determine the proper course of treatment.
Goal is to gain comprehensive assessment for clear and accurate diagnosis.
Early intensive treatment regimens including individual, group, family, milieu, educational, recreational and related forms of therapy
Integrated, comprehensive and prescriptive hospital assessments that provide proper planning for programming of step-down services on a residential, outdoor, or community-based intervention basis

As one of the top mental health treatment centers, ViewPoint Center staff will work with your family to produce specific and actionable recommendations regarding your child’s potential follow-up care.

Consider ViewPoint Center as an alternative to wilderness therapy. ViewPoint Center offers the comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and assessment that one might expect from a wilderness therapy program in a safe, secure environment.

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Steps to Admit at ViewPoint Center

Below are the steps to enrolling a teen.

Step One: contact us directly at 855-290-9682.
Step Two: brief phone assessment with Randi Nelson, Admissions Director
Step Three: complete application here >>
Step Four: clinical team reviews and approves application
Step Five: child arrives to ViewPoint Center and treatment begins.

No two enrollments are the same. Our process helps families answer the toughest questions and prepare for a brighter future. We work fast and in dire situations; we can help within 24 hours of your first call.