Residential Treatment:

Mental Health Conditions

Pomegranate's mental health treatment offers an integrated program including psychological and psychiatric evaluations, multi-disciplinary counseling services with both individual and group options and an evidence-based medical model approach to treating the DSM-IV mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders in adolescents.

This treatment curriculum consists of but is not limited to:

Mood Disorders: (affective disorders) involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness.

Impulse control and addiction disorders: unable to resist urges, or impulses to perform acts that could be harmful to themselves or others.

Personality disorders: extreme and inflexible personality traits that are distressing to the person and/or cause problems in work, school or social relationships.

Anxiety disorders: maladaptive response to certain objects or situations with fear and dread, as well as with physical signs of anxiety or nervousness.

Psychotic disorders: involve distorted awareness and thinking.

 

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