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For more than 40 years, Prairie View has worked with older adults experiencing emotional difficulties such as depression anxiety, agitation, confusion, and other conditions related to life stressors. Prairie View provides a continuum of care from less intensive to high intensive services that includes, outpatient services, Healthy Heart Clinic, partial hospitalization, inpatient hospitalization, and education and consultation. Prairie View also conducts nationally sponsored clinical research. Services are provided by a multidisciplinary staff trained to work with older adults and their families or caregivers. This team, which includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, pastoral counselors, mental health workers, and community case managers, develops a treatment plan based on each person's individual needs. Prairie View's Outpatient Services offer a complete continuum of care that facilitates early intervention and treatment that is less costly and less restrictive than hospitalization, and is capable of generating change that is both clinically and statistically significant. Outpatient services are available to children, adolescents, adults, and older adults for a number of mental health issues including depression, anxiety, chemical dependency, marital problems, family issues, eating disorders, grief, dementia, sexually related issues, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anger, and more. Prairie View has a professional staff of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and nurses that work with patients to establish and achieve goals, and desired outcomes with therapy. Prairie View's Partial Hospital services provide an important intermediate step on the continuum of care between 24-hour inpatient and outpatient services. This step down from full hospitalization provides both an alternative to hospitalization and a transitional treatment program for individuals who no longer require 24-hour care, but need more structure than is available in outpatient treatment. The less restrictive and less expensive partial hospital environment makes it possible to provide short-term intensive services to patients without removing them from their community. Prairie View's Inpatient Hospital is located on the Newton campus. There are 30 staffed beds for acute care which include 15 beds for adolescents and 15 for adults and older adults. In addition, there are 20 beds for the intensive adolescent residential program. Patients in the hospital are provided care 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The treatment process varies depending on the needs of the patient. The patients is seen as part of the family system, and families or caregivers can expect to be included in the treatment process. Clinical
Research National Institute of Mental Health With research we can improve the current treatments and make them more available. As part of our ongoing commitment to the community, Prairie View conducts nationally funded research in child, teen and adult psychiatric medicine. Research participants usually receive medical evaluations, physical exams, lab tests, comprehensive psychological testing, study medication and a significant amount of time from doctors and research staff at no cost. Common adult
studies include depression, bipolar disorder, Anxiety, ADHD, Schizophrenia
and Schizoaffective disorder. (We also have a number of child and
teen research studies). CURRENT RESEARCH REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE Contact a Research
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