Anxiety Treatment Center & Clinic in North Mississippi

Learn more about anxiety treatment at Millcreek of Pontotoc

Children and teens who struggle with anxiety disorders are often met with a number of obstacles in their daily lives. Increased levels of anxiety can cause a youth to perform poorly in school, act out at home, or have difficulty in social situations. Parents and caregivers can play an integral role in helping their child or teen overcome an anxiety disorder by seeking effective and appropriate care that can alleviate and eradicate the debilitating symptoms of anxiety. Thankfully, there are beneficial options at an anxiety treatment clinic that significantly reduce these risks.

At Millcreek of Pontotoc, an anxiety treatment center in North Mississippi, we recognize the unique, and often overwhelming, challenges that come with having a child or teen who is battling a mental health condition or conditions. Remaining sensitive to the needs of this population of children and teens, our behavioral disorders treatment clinic offers specialized programming that is tailored to meet the individual needs of each child or teen who is entrusted into our care. Situated on 18 beautifully shaded acres of serene landscape, our 51-bed residential anxiety treatment center provides caring and compassionate treatment for children and teens between the ages of 6 and 20 who are struggling with an array of mental, emotional, and/or behavioral concerns. In this safe and secure setting, the behavioral and educational needs of these emotionally disturbed children and teens can be addressed as they develop the skills they need to learn how to manage their symptoms, overcome their negative thought patterns, and take the first step towards the happy, healthy, and bright future they deserve.

Helping your child or teen get treatment

As a parent or caregiver, it can be disheartening to watch a child or teen suffer from the unrelenting symptoms of anxiety. You may feel as though there is nothing you can do to alleviate the ongoing anxious feelings your child or teen is experiencing. However, as your child’s advocate, there are a number of things you can do that can be of great assistance to your child or teen:

• First, learn about anxiety; doing this can help you identify additional symptoms of anxiety and give you a better understanding of the severity of your child’s struggles.
• Consider effective and temporary methods for alleviating your child’s or teen’s anxiety. Remember that you do not want to fully enable any ritualistic behaviors, however, there are some healthy methods for coping that you can teach your child in the meantime.
• Research options for care that meet your child’s needs. Take into consideration what you feel will benefit your child most, knowing that you know your child better than anyone.
• Seek an evaluation from a qualified mental health professional. Professionals in the field of mental health can identify symptoms of anxiety, make an appropriate diagnosis, and recommend treatment that will benefit your child in a number of ways.
• Follow through on recommendations for care.
• Be part of your child’s or teen’s treatment.
• Offer your unwavering support and guidance.

Enacting each of these suggestions can vastly improve the life of your child or teen when they are battling anxiety. Furthermore, it can be extremely advantageous to inquire about additional suggestions for once your child or teen completes anxiety treatment, as the maintenance of skills learned in treatment can solidify the success of overcoming the symptoms of an anxiety disorder.

Why consider treatment for anxiety at Millcreek of Pontotoc in North Mississippi

Ongoing feelings of anxiety can cause insurmountable distress for a child or teen. Pervasive worry, fear, or apprehension has the potential to disrupt even the most mundane tasks. Children and teens with anxiety may begin to use or abuse drugs and/or alcohol at an earlier age as a means of coping with symptoms of this type of disorder. Additionally, there is a greater risk for youth to partake in self-harming behaviors and develop ideations of suicide, as the chronic stress of anxiety can be all-consuming and overwhelming. Treating anxiety disorders can be life-saving for a young person battling anxiety as care can teach new methods for coping and offer relief from the unyielding symptoms of many anxiety disorders.

Residential anxiety treatment clinics are one such option for care that can provide the necessary treatment for anxiety disorders. Within this setting, a child or teen with anxiety can have access to qualified and experienced mental health professionals that can implement new methods for coping that can serve well for a lifetime. Additionally, specially-trained child and teen psychiatrists are often on hand at our anxiety treatment center to determine if medication is necessary to treat anxiety symptoms and subsequently monitor and manage medication if it is deemed necessary for treatment. Finally, parents and caregivers can receive their own support in caring for a child with anxiety, learn new methods for managing their child’s behavior, and understand why and how their child suffers from anxiety symptoms. Generally speaking, residential anxiety treatment clinic can address any and all needs of children and teens who are struggling with anxiety disorders, of which can allow these youth to go on to lead happy, healthy lives.

Millcreek of Pontotoc’s treatment philosophy and benefits

At Millcreek of Pontotoc, an anxiety treatment clinic in North Mississippi, we are dedicated to helping children and teens lead healthier, more productive lives. By using a multidisciplinary treatment team approach to care, our anxiety treatment center is able to afford our patients comprehensive anxiety treatment plans that integrate their specific developmental, emotional, behavioral, and educational needs into their individualized plans of action for receiving thorough care. All children and teens in our anxiety treatment clinic benefit from having their own treatment teams which are comprised of psychiatrists, clinical therapists, nurses, teachers, and other healthcare professionals who formulate their treatment plans in conjunction with parents or guardians. When your child or teen comes to our anxiety treatment clinic in North Mississippi, you can rest assured that they will be provided with the most optimal level of care possible in order to ensure that they leave anxiety treatment feeling successful, enriched, and fully prepared for the future.

Types of anxiety treatment offered at Millcreek of Pontotoc in North Mississippi

At Millcreek of Pontotoc, a behavioral disorders treatment clinic in North Mississippi, we understand that making the decision to place your child or teen into a residential anxiety treatment center can be difficult. We also understand that the process of doing so can seem intimidating, which is why we strive to make the admissions procedure as smooth, easy, and streamlined as possible. In an effort to be as accommodating as we can be, our treatment center’s highly trained and qualified staff is able to conduct psychosocial assessments over the phone, or in person, so as to allow for the admissions process to be a quick one. Once admitted for care, every child and teen will undergo a thorough evaluation process that includes physical, educational, psychological, and psychiatric assessments, of which the results will be added to the information provided by the initial psychosocial assessment. This thorough evaluation process allows the staff at our anxiety treatment center at Millcreek to gain a full understanding of each child’s unique developmental, emotional, and educational needs. Taking into account all of the information received throughout the course of these evaluations, an individualized anxiety treatment plan is then devised for each child or teen. The various aspects of the therapeutic interventions that your child or teen will be afforded as part of their anxiety treatment plan may include the following:

Medication management: In the event a child or teen requires medication to alleviate the symptoms of a mental illness, our anxiety treatment center employs specially-trained psychiatrists who can determine the need for medication(s), prescribe medication(s), monitor and adjust medication(s) if it is necessary for your child’s care. Each child or teen will meet with a psychiatrist at our treatment clinic at least once each week in order to ensure the therapeutic effectiveness of any medications that are prescribed, as well as to make any changes that may be necessary.

Individual therapy: Individual therapy sessions at our anxiety treatment center are held for 60 minutes at least once each week and are designed to be a time for children or teens to meet one-on-one with their therapists in order to discuss any concerns they have, to track treatment goals, and to work on personal skills-building. Additional sessions at our clinic can always be added depending on a child’s needs or when specifically requested.

Group therapy: Children and teens in our residential anxiety treatment center participate in 60 minute group therapy sessions five times each week. The majority of the groups are based on a cognitive behavioral therapeutic approach and include discussions on topics such as goal-setting, social skills, peer pressure, aggression, following rules, and bullying. All group topics are tailored to address specific issues that pertain to the children or teens participating in each particular group, so the topics will vary.

Family therapy: At Millcreek of Pontotoc, located in North Mississippi, we believe that family involvement is paramount in eliciting successful treatment outcomes. Patients and their families participate in 60-minute family therapy sessions at least twice each month. However, additional family sessions at our anxiety treatment clinic can be added at any time depending on a patient’s needs or when requested.

Clinical staffings: Each child or teen in our anxiety treatment center is provided with two staffings during their first month at Millcreek, and in one staffing per month for each subsequent month that he or she is in our care. These staffings provide patients and their parents or guardians with specified times to meet with their treatment team in order to discuss the child’s progress in all areas of treatment, including therapeutically and academically.

Experiential therapy: In order to provide a well-rounded approach to treatment, children and teens are offered additional therapeutic options as part of their anxiety treatment plans at our treatment center. These options include art therapy, play therapy, and daily recreational therapy.

Education: While participating in anxiety treatment at Millcreek of Pontotoc in North Mississippi, all patients will attend our fully accredited, onsite therapeutic day school. Classes at our anxieyt treatment center are held from 8:00am-11:00am every day. Teachers who are certified to teach children with special needs teach all classes, and classes are held in small classrooms with low student-to-teacher ratios in order to ensure that all academic needs are fully addressed.

Continuing care and levels of treatment for anxiety

At Millcreek of Pontotoc, an anxiety treatment center in North Mississippi, discharge planning starts at the time of admission. Throughout the course of anxiety treatment, each patient’s progress is closely monitored in order to make sure that all anxiety treatment goals are successfully reached and that appropriate recommendations for aftercare can be made. All referrals for aftercare services are made based solely on each patient’s present level of functioning at the time of discharge, as well as based on their skills set and the challenges that they may still be facing. Our staff at our anxiety treatment clinic will work with each patient and their family in order to set up any aftercare appointments or services that will help the patient remain successful. Additionally, when it is appropriate, our staff can work with teens in getting them set up with part-time jobs following their discharge.

For those families who are still in need of intensive services, but whose children no longer require a residential anxiety treatment clinic, we often refer them to MYPAC in order to facilitate wraparound services. MYPAC stands for Mississippi Youth Program Around the Clock and is an intensive wraparound service that provides patients and their families with home therapy services.

Some patients will benefit from transitioning from our residential anxiety treatment center to our therapeutic day school treatment program as part of their step-down process as they re-integrate back into their home lives. Patients taking part in this anxiety treatment option will receive weekly group and individual therapy sessions, along with monthly family therapy sessions and multidisciplinary treatment team meetings with their psychiatrist.

Whatever your child’s or teen’s ongoing needs may be, you should feel assured that the staff at our anxiety treatment center at Millcreek of Pontotoc in North Mississippi will do everything in our power to help them continue on their path to success.