Parkridge Valley Hospital – Child & Adolescent Campus - Chattanooga, TN

About the Facility

Parkridge Valley Hospital - Child and Adolescent Campus is a behavioral healthcare treatment center offering inpatient and outpatient programs for children and adolescents in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They provide mental health resources, psychiatric services, training, and aftercare.

Mental services offered at Parkridge Valley Hospital – Child and Adolescent Campus include mental health assessments and counseling, dual diagnosis treatment, intensive outpatient programming, inpatient treatment, children’s services, teen assessment and treatment, crisis management, counseling, behavior modification, family discharge planning, medication management, and supportive medical care.

Psychiatric assessments help doctors at Parkridge Valley Hospital – Child and Adolescent Campus to understand emotional and health issues, co-occurring mental health disorders and to determine symptom management. Part of both the outpatient and residential program

Designed for adolescents aged 13 to 18 years old and children aged five to 12 years old. With two distinct programs for each group, participants attend individual and group therapy sessions which first focus on safety and stabilization and then on improving coping skills, emotional regulation, and symptom management. Sessions are held several days a week, depending on the acuity of the patient.

Parkridge Valley Hospital – Child and Adolescent Campus residential programs offers treatment for a range of mental health disorders, including ADHD, dual diagnosis substance use disorder and mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and more. Using evidence based and holistic practices, Parkridge Valley Hospital treats the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual needs of the patient. Treatment starts with an assessment to determine individual needs, then services are provided based on those results. Participants leave with a better understanding of their feelings and problems, motivation to change, and skills to overcome their issues.

Before discharge, each individual meets with their care team and family to determine a comprehensive aftercare plan. That may include attending outpatient support groups, and regular progress meetings with their clinician.

Parkridge Valley Hospital offers a variety of payment options for their programs, including self pay, private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Military Insurance, and sliding scale payment assistance.

Accreditations

Joint Commission

The Joint Commission, formerly known as JCAHO, is a nonprofit organization that accredits rehab organizations and programs. Founded in 1951, the Joint Commision's mission is to improve the quality of patient care and demonstrating the quality of patient care.

Joint Commission Accreditation: Yes

Treatment

Dual Diagnosis

In Tennessee, dual-diagnosis addiction treatment programs provide integrated care for individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions. Offered on an outpatient or inpatient basis, addiction experts utilize evidence-based therapies, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), together with recovery and skills groups, to address both disorders and promote mental health. You’ll also receive comprehensive aftercare planning and relapse prevention training.

Mental Health

If you have a co-occurring mental health condition and an addiction, you’ll want to address both conditions at the same time, under the same roof. If you only address the mental health disorder, you’ll likely continue using drugs, which tends to make mental health issues even worse. On the other hand, if you only address the addiction, the symptoms of your mental health disorder will make it very hard to succeed in recovery.

Insurance and Financial

Daily
Self-pay options
Private insurance
Military insurance
Medicaid
Medicare
Sliding scale payment assistance

Programs

Adolescence program
Children program
Program for men
Program for women

Levels of Care

Outpatient

Outpatient rehabs enable clients to receive care without leaving their home, workplace, and community. Clients typically receive intensive addiction counseling, including individual, group, and family therapy. Many programs promote clients’ long-term sobriety through recovery-focused life skills training and ancillary services, such as peer coaching. Medication assisted treatment (MAT), including medication induction and maintenance, are common in outpatient care. Most facilities offer multiple levels of care to accommodate clients’ evolving needs, including intensive outpatient (IOP) and standard outpatient programming.

Intensive Outpatient

Clients in intensive outpatient programs (IOP) receive robust, personalized care to support their reintegration into their community. Clients stepping down from inpatient treatment frequently enroll in IOP before entering standard outpatient care or community-based recovery programs, such as AA. Intensive outpatient treatment generally involves between nine and 20 therapeutic hours weekly, with the frequency and duration of sessions decreasing as clients stabilize. IOP services commonly include counseling, recovery education, holistic therapies, and medication assisted treatment (MAT).

Inpatient

Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

Aftercare Support

Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.

Family Therapy

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Group Therapy

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Nutrition Therapy

Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

Settings and Amenities

Private setting
Recreation room
Swimming pool
Hiking
Day school
Valley Academy is an accredited school under the Tennessee Department of Education. It offers regular education and special education in a structured environment for children and adolescents who are resident patients at Parkridge Valley Child and Adolescent Campus. Valley Academy provides quality, interim education programs to meet the unique needs of the children and adolescents they serve.