Adolescent & Child Treatment
Childhood should be filled with joy, fulfillment, growth and nurturing care. Unfortunately for many young people, growing up can be a stressful, traumatic and a painful experience. Help is available for children, pre-teens, and adolescents needing mental health treatment or intervention.
Program Philosophy
We believe that all children do well if they can. We also recognize that many of our youth have had significant trauma in their past lives. Our goal is to help children, teens and their families develop tools and strategies to be successful in treatment. All children and adolescents have unique strengths and talents. Their problems are opportunities for growth. Partnerships between staff and our young patients are predicated on the belief that it is essential that families and caregivers be involved. Maintaining an environment that is trauma informed and that promotes healing and respect for all is vital to successful outcomes for treatment.
Wyoming Behavioral Institute offers the following to children, adolescents and their families:
- Highly-skilled admission staff
- Free 24-hour information and referral service
- Immediately available free assessments for families
- Crisis stabilization
- Accessible inpatient treatment
Wyoming Behavioral Institute's treatment components include:
- Comprehensive evaluation and assessment
- History and physical
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Psychiatric social evaluation
- Nurse assessment
- Full-spectrum care that focuses on the whole person, not just the illness
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Recreational therapy
- Medication Management
- Case Management
- Discharge planning
Education Program
Wyoming Behavioral Institute has a school on site for elementary, junior high, and high school students. Certified, experienced teachers and aides staff our school. We provide an
educational component because we recognize that school is an important part of your child's life, however, the primary focus at WBI is in treating the emotional and or behavioral
issues that resulted in hospitalization. Once these issues begin to stabilize, children often can begin to make progress in school. With your permission, our Education
Coordinator will work with your child's school to coordinate their education needs.
Wyoming Behavioral Institute's education program components include:
- Trauma-informed care focused on compassion
- Certified teaching professionals
- Tutoring available
- Academic testing provided
- Behavior-oriented model
- Highly structured environment
- Emphasis is place on learning to work well in groups as well as independently
- Students become contributors to their classrooms in cooperative ways
- Learning materials can be provided by mail or fax if schools want assignments to be completed by acute child and adolescent patients
- Individual Education Program (IEP) requirements are met if children come to WBI with IEPs
- WBI is not an accredited learning institution but is recognized by the state of Wyoming, successful functioning in school is a treatment outcome for most patients
- Conference calls can be scheduled with school officials responsible for student performance (as permitted by information sharing releases)
- Some academic setbacks can be expected while patients devote time and energy to treatment
- Group therapy, outdoor and indoor play, relaxation, arts and crafts, and life skills training are among other teaching tools used at WBI to help with treatment
