Our Assessments
Having a Clear Picture of Each Child
At Vive Adolescent Care, we offer a series of in-depth assessments as a way of better understanding the cognitive and emotional condition of our patients. Having a clear picture of each child's thoughts, feelings and behaviors is critical to developing a treatment plan tailored to their immediate needs and future goals.
A few of the primary outcomes derived from our assessments and other diagnostic tools are:
Observations relative to how they manage the demands of social, educational, and family life.
Clarity on past traumatic events.
Deeper understanding of how they process feelings and thoughts, both negative and positive.
Views on relationships and boundaries.
Identification of strengths and weaknesses.
The Treatment of Every Child
Throughout their stay at Vive Adolescent Care, each adolescent is continuously observed by experienced clinical and direct care staff across a wide range of structured and everyday settings. Interactions are carefully documented to provide a comprehensive understanding of each adolescent’s emotional well-being, behavioral patterns, social interactions, coping skills, and overall progress. This ongoing assessment process enables the treatment team to identify meaningful trends, measure therapeutic growth, adjust interventions as needed, and ensure that every client receives the most personalized and effective care possible throughout their recovery journey.
Understand & Treat Each Teen
Daily visits from our psychiatric nurse practitioners, and other members of the clinical and medical teams, also are used in conjunction with our assessments to better understand and treat each teen in our care.
Standard Vive Assessments
Each client receives the following assessments while at Vive:
Beck's Anxiety (Anxiety scale)
PHQ-A (Depression scale)
SCARED Anxiety Questionnaire (Differentiates types of anxiety)
SWAN - ADHD Rating Scale (ADHD & types)
MDQ (Mood Disorders/Bipolar)
SQAY (Suicide risk & resiliency questionnaire)
All of the above assessments are scored and reviewed by their therapist and psychiatric provider. Once completed, there is a Vive Assessment Summary Form that is completed by the case management team.
Vive Assessment Summary
Upon Discharge, the client completes the Beck's Anxiety, PHQ-A, and SQAY Assessments once more and then added to the Vive Assessment Summary Form. This Assessment Summary is finalized upon Discharge and provides insights into their progress during their stay. A copy is provided to parents/transport team as part of their discharge packet.
There are also two separate Discharge Summaries completed upon discharge. One is completed by their therapist (Clinical Summary) and the other by their psychiatric provider (Medical Summary). A copy of these will also be provided to parents/transport team as part of their discharge packet.
The discharge packet will also include other information such as educational materials on safety, their diagnoses, discharge medication list, medication education sheets, lab results, client's current medications plus a 1-month prescription, personal rec therapy activities, etc.
We also can do further testing for personality disorders, scales for side effects of the medications, etc. We typically do not do any Weschler or other IQ/processing speed assessments. We can do some Autism Testing, either standard or high-functioning via CARS-2 and/or ADOS-2.
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Vive Adolescent Care is a specialized adolescent mental health treatment center providing short-term inpatient psychiatric care for teens experiencing an acute mental health crisis. Vive serves adolescents ages 12 to 17 with a comprehensive, medically supervised program designed to stabilize emotional and behavioral crises while helping families prepare for successful long-term recovery. The program is insurance-based and typically provides 14 to 30 days of intensive inpatient treatment focused on safety, assessment, stabilization, and individualized care planning.
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