Our adolescent programs offer PHP, IOP, and Residential care, that provide the guidance needed for lasting recovery.
SunCloud Health offers a comprehensive adolescent treatment program tailored to meet the unique needs of teens and adolescents struggling with various challenges.
With four strategically located centers in Naperville, Northbrook, Matteson, and Chicago, IL, SunCloud ensures that quality care is accessible to families across the region. These programs represent a significant distinction from many area programs that treat adolescent psychiatric issues with tracks that focus primarily on current symptomology.
SunCloud has a rich history of treating the whole person with integrated care that starts with an in-depth assessment of functioning, overall health, psychiatric history, medical history, family history, and recommendations. Family involvement is key to positive outcomes as part of a structured conversation during the assessment. SunCloud is known for its work in a trauma-informed framework where many adolescents need the opportunity to process difficult issues.
At SunCloud Health, our diverse team of professionals will create a personalized treatment plan for every patient, encompassing:
Each treatment plan is shaped to align with the unique requirements of every patient and is periodically fine-tuned during the treatment phase. Our tailored treatment plans are geared towards guiding individuals on a journey towards a functional and purposeful life.
A recovery-focused peer community and therapeutic environment is created to help teens heal from many underlying issues that drive symptomatic behaviors. SunCloud is invested in understanding the narrative of each patient’s life through a systems approach that involves elements of a strong family therapy approach for the patient and family. Adolescent psychiatrists lead the team at each location and are highly engaged with both the patient and family. Multi family groups and family work that includes parent coaching are available to support each patient in their recovery.
The SunCloud approach embraces a patient-centric focus on the underlying root of self-defeating behaviors and symptoms for which our adolescents seek care. Exposure and response prevention is available for those patients whose treatment plan indicates this modality for obsessive-compulsive disorders, eating disorders and trauma.
SunCloud will work to communicate 1-2 times per week from clinician to the school for the sole purpose of ensuring teens have a smooth re-entry process and a supported return to school. SunCloud will work with schools to link patients back to social work services, wellness programs and additional supports as offered through each home school in order to support their gains. We are mindful to protect specific details of the teen’s work here at SunCloud to ensure our space remains confidential and safe.
The SC team comprises of a multidisciplinary team of health care providers who help you develop an individualized treatment plan to reach your goals. Our team consists of psychiatrists, registered dieticians, registered nurses, psychologists, therapists and counselors whose specialties include addiction, eating disorders, mood disorders and trauma recovery.
The community at SunCloud includes you, fellow patients seeking greater health themselves and the SC staff. At SCH we focus both on the primary behavioral symptoms interfering with your life, as well as the underlying biological, psychological, social and spiritual factors, including adverse childhood experiences, that interfere with your ability to live a meaningful, joyful and free life.
We use evidence-based treatment modalities to execute our mission to provide integrated care to persons with complex, co-occurring conditions who have not been adequately helped by treatment models that focus on one “primary” condition.
We use a sophisticated treatment approach addressing multiple co-occurring disorders at the same time, under one roof in an integrated fashion.”
At first, we think they are just making bad decisions. We justify this by believing that as adolescents, we expect some of this. We naively assume they will grow out of “it” and one day mature. Signs that things might be worse than we hope include a few semesters of unusually poor grades, unexplainable and suspicious behavior, a substantial change in their friend group or months of them suddenly telling us how much they hate us.
After months of watching them go downhill, arguing with them and spending hours with close family and friends fruitlessly trying to come up with a solution for our newly diagnosed “difficult child”, we call their school counselor or a local therapist and ask for guidance. If we are fortunate enough to get our kids to actually go see the school counselor or the local therapist (many are not!), once diagnosed with a mental health or addiction diagnosis, we are then faced with questions and thoughts ranging from, “give them more time, things will be fine..”, or “How did this happen to MY CHILD when they had a fairy tale childhood”, or, “Now what do we do?”, or “What did I do wrong and how can I fix this since I am the parent, and nobody knows my child like I do?”
