Tarzana Treatment Centers (TTC) offers a full continuum of mental health treatment services. From a recovery perspective, mental health (MH) treatment services at TTC are tailored to meet each patient’s specific needs. In mental health treatment, the clinical staff at TTC believes in an integrated, whole person-centered care approach. Such an approach results in mental health services designed to meet the needs of individuals with mild to severe mental health challenges.

Moreover, we bring a patient’s family into the healing process. Indeed, mental health treatment is hard for any family. In addition, mental health treatment is not always the primary reason the person is seeking treatment. In other cases, however, these MH services may be integrated into the treatment of substance use disorders, medical care, or specialty HIV care.

Integrated Mental Health Treatment and Recovery

In a detailed examination of the role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz explores innovations in mental health treatment services. In Psychiatric Services, a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dr. McCance-Katz, the former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use, writes:

“Ultimately, understanding mental illness in our nation will lead us to provide the right resources to those in greatest need. In doing so, we help our nation to realize its true greatness by demonstrating caring for those who had once been forgotten but will be no longer.”

Hence, TTC provides integrated treatment for all our patients. For example, this integrated approach is of great benefit for individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders, which used to be referred to as Dual Diagnoses. A real benefit of integrated treatment is that the psychiatric team can address both disorders at the same time. Thus, the team differentiates which symptoms are substance-induced and which result from a particular psychiatric condition.

In mental health treatment services, such valuable information is used in developing a continuing care plan. As patients improve, they are moved to lower treatment levels of care to reflect this improvement. Ultimately, the long-term goal is to function better with an improved quality of life and maintain ongoing recovery.

Mental Health Conditions We Treat

TTC staff are trained experts in providing mental health treatment services to address the following conditions:

• Anxiety Disorders
• Social Anxiety Panic Disorder
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Suicidal Ideation
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
• Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Psychotic Disorders
• Co-Occurring Disorders

In addition, we offer services to treat more mild mental health problems related to stressful life events (e.g., divorce), work and school problems, anger, relationship issues, and family problems, which cause various symptoms, including sleep difficulties and fatigue.

The Challenge of Mental Health Treatment Service

Given the complex nature of mental health disorders and conditions, the TTC MH Programs employ both traditional and innovative treatment modalities. Our focus is to find what works for each patient to begin a path to long-term recovery. For example, our family sessions help patients heal the damage done within the family unit. We view each patient and their families as a mental health treatment partner.

Moreover, the mental health professional staff includes psychiatrists, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and clinical interns under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. Treatment involves a comprehensive assessment, a treatment plan, and individual and group work

Therapeutic modalities used in TTC MH Programs:

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
• DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
• Trauma-Informed CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
• Seeking Safety (SS)

These therapeutic modalities focus on reducing symptoms, improving functioning, and optimizing one’s quality of life. Through talk therapy with well-trained clinical staff and group sessions, patients progress towards these goals. Thus, working with TTC’s professional MH staff, patients improve functioning by learning a number of skills in individual counseling and mental health groups, including:

• Mindfulness
• Emotion Regulation
• Distress Tolerance
• Interpersonal Effectiveness
• Psychoeducation Process Groups

From experience, we know that learning and implementing these skills can lead to long-term recovery.

Levels of Care in TTC’s Mental Health Treatment Services

The focus of the levels of care in TTC’s mental health treatment services is to ensure that each patient receives the help they need and is placed in the least restrictive level of care.

Inpatient Psychiatric Stabilization

TTC’s inpatient unit is a licensed acute psychiatric hospital. This level of care is suitable for patients needing acute psychiatric stabilization that cannot be managed on an outpatient basis. The unit also provides medical detoxification and withdrawal management for patients with substance use disorders, which may include substance-induced psychiatric symptoms.

Moreover, this unit is appropriate for patients who are not yet stable enough for outpatient care after an involuntary hold in a psychiatric hospital. All patients in the inpatient unit receive a psychiatric evaluation by a psychiatric provider or psychologist during the initial assessment process. In addition, the program offers ongoing medication monitoring and management, counseling, and group therapy.

The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) is an intensive outpatient program for MH (Mental Health) patients. PHP, also known as Day Treatment, provides treatment services from the morning through the early afternoon. Thus, patients return to their homes each day after treatment. As a structured program, PHP or Day Treatment runs six hours a day, five days a week. Indeed, PHP provides patients with the extra support and time in treatment that many require.

In addition, a multi-disciplinary clinical team runs the Partial Hospitalization Program. Given the team’s experience, a wide variety of evidence-based mental health treatment services are provided. Moreover, PHP Treatment goals start with psychiatric stabilization, emotional regulation, improved interpersonal relationships, medication self-management, and the development of a post-discharge plan.

Mental Health Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

The MH Intensive Outpatient Program is at least three hours a day for three to five days a week. In addition to group therapy, patients receive one-on-one counseling from mental health staff. Hence, each patient receives an assessment from a psychiatric provider, and medication management is essential to the program.

From a clinical perspective, the IOP approach is for patients that need more support than offered in traditional MH outpatient services. Once again, assessment is a crucial part of this process to identify the level of care that works best for each patient.

Mental Health Outpatient Services

TTC has a variety of mental health outpatient programs that treat the needs of children, youth, and adults ranging from mild mental health problems to severe mental illness (SMI). Therefore, the first step is to assess the appropriate outpatient level of care and the program needed.