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The Las Vegas Medical Center's CARE (Center for Adolescent Relationship Exploration) unit offers psychiatric services to adolescents ages 13 - 17. Adolescents admitted to the CARE unit:
The unit accepts adolescents on a voluntary basis, seven day emergency status or court commitment. The CARE unit provides treatment for adolescents through two specialized treatment programs. One is the CARE sex offender program which offers long term treatment for males. Patients receiving treatment in this program have a history of sex offending and been identified and adjudicated through the courts as in need of this specific treatment. The program is under the direct supervision of nationally certified juvenile sex offender counselors. The second program treats complicated affective disorders and mixed diagnosis. It is a coed program that offers a highly structured and comprehensive rehabilitation environment. It focuses on medical, cognitive, social, physical, behavioral and other needs as they relate to the patient's relationships. Patients receiving services in this component of treatment suffer from complications such as severe and long term behavior problems, poor impulose control, substance abuse, depression, psychosis, and multiple instances of physical and/or sexual abuse.
The CARE unit's approch to treatment is sensitive to both the youth's and family's culture and lifestyle. Families become part of their child's therapy through individual family and multi-family group therapy sessions. CARE provides kinds of treatment including individual and group therapy, sexual abuse survivors therapy, experiential education, wilderness experiences, addicyions/dependency group therapy, and medications as needed.
At the heart of CARE is a program structured around exploring personal relationships in a safe therapeutic setting.