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The Menninger Clinic

The Menninger Clinic is an international specialty psychiatric center, providing treatment, research and education. Founded in 1925 in Topeka, Kansas, Menninger relocated to Houston in 2003 and is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital. For 17 consecutive years, Menninger has been named among the leading psychiatric hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of America ’s Best Hospitals.

Menninger provides inpatient mental healthcare for adolescents and adults with difficult-to-treat mental illness. Mental health professionals focus on the individual needs of each patient. They in the potential of our patients and strive to understand and care for the patient medically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. They teach what they know to patients and their families. Treatment staff at Menninger has found this apporach helps empower patients to manage their illness over time.

Menninger offers six specialty inpatient programs and three diagnostic services:

 Adolescent Treatment Program

 Adolescent Assessment

 Compass Young Adult Program

 Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment

 Eating Disorders Program

 Hope Adult Program

 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Treatment Program — Adolescent/Adult

 Professionals in Crisis Program

 Professional Assessments

Specialty program advantages
The programs focus intensively on the needs of patients who share similarities in age, symptoms or diagnoses and level of functioning.

Patients work together as a community in their program, providing support to one another and making decisions that affect the group. With patients at varying stages of treatment, those who are nearing completion of their treatment serve as an inspiration to newer patients.

Mental health professionals with expertise and experience working with specific patient populations unite on treatment teams. The multidisciplinary perspectives from nursing staff, recreational therapists, chemical dependency counselors, behavior therapists, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists offer insight and counsel for the patient.

The most important person on the treatment team is the patient. Together, the patient and team collaborate on treatment goals and on measuring progress.

Therapies in each specialty program are designed for the needs of the patients. The treatment teams also have the flexibility of integrating treatment groups or clinical expertise from anywhere in the hospital to meet patients’ needs.

Areas of expertise
Menninger specialty diagnostic and treatment programs provide treatment for a wide range of symptoms and disorders, including:

 Mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder
(manic depression)

 Anxiety disorders, including panic, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorders

 Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), including obsessions, compulsions, rituals, body dysmorphic disorder, Tourette's Syndrome, scrupulosity, trichotillomania, hypochondraisis and related conditions

 Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and severe overeating

 Substance abuse, including alcohol, narcotics and benzodiazepines, including medically safe detox.

 Addictive disorders, including gambling, sexual compulsivity, drug and alcohol addiction, compulsive spending or financial addiction, or Internet addiction.

 Posttraumatic stress disorder, self-harm and other trauma-related conditions

 Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and Asperger's Syndrome

 Oppositional defiant disorder

 Borderline personality disorder

 Other issues that seriously impair day to day living, such as family life, work, school and professional behavior

Menninger staff also specialize in applying psychiatric and behavioral treatment interventions that are helpful in treating individuals with difficult-to-treat and dual disorders or long-standing symptoms and issues.

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