PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES (PRTFs)

Methodist Family Health’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs) provide a planned, safe living and learning environment in a family-style setting, for children and adolescents with chronic emotional and behavioral disorders.

The PRTFs are part of our inpatient residential programs, meaning residents live onsite full-time. Our two PRTF homes are in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Bono (Craighead County).

Each PRTF serves adolescents ages 12 to 17 in gender-specific units with a length of stay generally four to six months, or longer. Patients who excel in the PRTF may be eligible to return home or step down to a less-intensive treatment setting within Methodist Family Health’s full continuum of care.

Patients are referred to our PRTFs from a variety of sources, including:
  • Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services.
  • Primary care physicians.
  • Parents.
  • Mental health clinics.
  • Churches.
  • Juvenile probation officers.
  • Psychiatric hospitals.
  • Other Methodist Family Health treatment programs.
While the referral process may be started from a number of different sources, the process requires input from outpatient professionals or other clinical professionals who have been working with or have knowledge of the client’s needs.
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Treatment is personalized, utilizing the Teaching-Family Model, and is administered using a team treatment approach. Our goal for each patient is to stabilize behavior and return them to the least-intensive environment possible, be that their home or to an outpatient program of care. Treatments may include one or more of the following, as appropriate:

  • Weekly individual therapy.
  • Grief and anger management.
  • Skill groups.
  • Family therapy.
  • Recreational activities, outings and passes.

Other available services include:

  • Medical care, such as physical, occupational and speech therapy.
  • A state-approved education program, featuring regular and special education classes led by certified special education teachers.
  • Behavior management planning and techniques.
  • Care delivered by a team of board-certified child  psychiatrists, therapists, case managers, behavioral instructors, skilled nurses and others as appropriate.
  • Spiritual enrichment via an on-staff chaplain.
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