SPOKANE, Wash. — Inland Northwest Behavioral Health (INBH), located just up the street from Sacred Heart, is actively helping kids as young as 12 years old with their mental health.
Due to patient privacy laws, INBH cannot discuss any current or former patients. What they can do is provide insight into what it feels like to drop your child off for an inpatient psychiatric stay.
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, patients and their parents begin with a free “Level of Care” assessment.
Sometimes talking through environmental factors, safety levels, and symptoms with a social worker means staying overnight at INBH.
If that’s the case, parents leave their children with their care team. It’s important for parents to know this is the first step.
“I would say they’re in the right place, it can be hard but what I see on a personal level I have people in my life that have asked for my opinion because they know what I do and often times people are waiting for that moment, they’re waiting for when I know I’ll know. And often times my advice is it’s not going to be as scary as you think it is,” said Stephanie Johnson, a mental health social worker at INBH.
Medication management and group programming are a big part of patient care at INBH.
Stephanie says the goal for every patient is getting them home and most teens typically stay a maximum of six to seven days.
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