Communicating With Your Teen: When to Be Concerned & When to Get Help
Talking to your teen might sometimes feel like chatting with someone from a different planet. You ask simple questions and get one-word answers. Or worse, you get that all-too-familiar eye roll...Learn more →
How Do I Know If My Child Is Struggling and Needs Help?
To put it mildly, parenting a teenager is not always a walk in the proverbial park.From dealing with changes in their bodies, worries about school and issues with their friends, your once usually cheerful child has morphed into a developing teen who can be argumentative, moody, and/or challenging at times.Learn more →
What Parents Should Know and Can Do to Support Their Child's Treatment
Dear parents and guardians, we invite you to learn more about what to expect upon arrival at our hospital, what your child will be doing here, what communication with your child will be like, what our visitation guidelines are, and what aftercare is. We want to help all parents and guardians feel prepared and know how to support their child visit at Aurora Behavioral Health.Learn more →
Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health
Aurora Behavioral Health West offers short-term, acute care services to meet the needs of adolescents, ages 12 through 17, who are struggling with emotional and psychological problems. Adolescents are treated and cared for by licensed professionals whose combined specialties focus on dealing with depression, substance abuse, aggression, rebellion, self-injury and suicidal behaviors.Learn more →
We also offer adolescent inpatient chemical dependency services for patients between the ages of 12-17 requiring detoxification and treatment for alcohol and drug addiction while learning to cope with the chemical addiction. Our goal is to empower patients to live their lives and learn ways to manage stress without the use of drugs and alcohol.
The Specialized Needs Unit (SNU) within Aurora Behavioral Health System is a specifically designed program developed to meet the needs of children and adolescents with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).
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Outpatient Services
Aurora Behavioral Health System’s Outpatient Services offers an Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, or IOP, designed to provide a concentrated, time-limited, comprehensive therapeutic environment for the treatment of mental health and substance abuse issues.Learn more →
ECT Treatment
Electroconvulsive Therapy, or more commonly referred to as ECT, is most commonly used to treat depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (unresponsive to Clozapine) when other ongoing treatment has not worked, including medications and talk therapy. ECT is a medical procedure performed by a qualified psychiatrist, anesthesiologist and ECT nursing team.Learn more →
Holistic Personalized Care
Aurora Behavioral Health System proudly offers specialized group equine therapy integrated within our inpatient and outpatient programs as a part of our holistic treatment approach to healing. Equine Therapy is an evidenced based approach where patients feed, groom, and otherwise interact with horses in order to reach rehabilitative goals.Learn more →