Compass Program for Young Adults

If you’ve lost your way on the road to adulthood, our Compass Program for Young Adults can help.

 

Perhaps you’ve struggled to handle college or get a job, and you're not sure why. Maybe your relationships with family and friends are deteriorating. Maybe you’ve become isolated and fearful about the future.

 

At Compass, our team is experienced in engaging people just like you in our assessment and treatment tracks. Elizabeth's story shows how powerful the Compass experience can be.

 

On this track, you'll receive customized, intensive diagnostic evaluations that can help identify the underlying issues impacting your transition to adulthood and determine what the most effective treatment would be. At the end of the 3- to 4-week assessment, you'll get results that can then help your future clinicians create an effective, personalized treatment plan.

 

Who Can Benefit
It's ideal for individuals ages 18-30 who: 

• Have not responded to previous treatment, including medication
• Need a second opinion for a complex presentation of symptoms
• Need the safety of an inpatient setting 

What's Included
The assessment may include the following:

• Psychiatric evaluation
• Psychological testing
• Psychosocial evaluation
• Medical evaluation
• Standard laboratory testing and specialized testing, if needed
• Specialty consultations, as indicated
• Genetic testing, as indicated

In addition, the team may request additional tests or procedures, based on the clinical picture or test results. These may include:

• MRI
• EEG
• Other tests or laboratories as appropriate
• Neuropsychiatric evaluation
• Neuropsychological evaluation
• Sleep evaluation
• Addictions evaluation
• Neurodevelopmental evaluation (e.g., autism, ADHD)

After the Assessment
After the assessment, you may choose to continue in the Compass treatment track, or you might seek care on one of our other programs for young adults, depending on your needs and goals. The team will help you make the right choice for the next step in your wellness journey.

 

Scheduling an Assessment
It's easy. Call us at 713-275-5400, and we'll be happy to help you.

 

When you arrive on Compass, you’ll find other young adults who struggle with one or more mental health issues that are often accompanied by addiction or substance abuse, too. (In fact, 50 percent of Compass patients have a substance issue.)

 

These issues may have started in early adolescence, or they may have just begun to interfere with your life.

 

We’ll work with you to determine what's preventing you from making a successful transition to adulthood and help you develop a path to a new you. If you decide that your time in treatment is best spent focusing on only one issue, you may only stay at Compass for a few weeks before moving on to another level of care like residential treatment or intensive outpatient. If you decide to focus your treatment on multiple core issues, you may stay for several weeks.

 

As the key member of your treatment team, it’s all up to you — we’re here to help you move forward toward your goals.

Our team is experienced in treating a range of mental illnesses and addictive behaviors, including:

If you suffer from an addiction to or dependence on drugs, alcohol, gambling, spending or technology, you can get help for it on Compass, too.

 

Your treatment team will include a master’s-prepared addictions counselor, who will treat and support you from admission through discharge. At Menninger, our addictions counselors are full members of the teams so that we can integrate addiction treatment with mental illness treatment simultaneously rather than treating them in a separate or sequential manner.

 

Many patients arrive feeling self-conscious, confused and anxious. That is natural. We’ll get you settled into treatment as quickly as possible so that you can begin to build your new life.

 

A board-certified psychiatrist will lead your treatment team, which includes a licensed psychologist and licensed clinical social worker. You are another key member of your treatment team, as is your family.

 

If you have a substance use issue, an addictions counselor will join your team. If you have issues or concerns that require help from additional specialists, you’ll be treated by them as well.

 

Together, we’ll define the goals for your treatment, create a treatment plan that makes achieving those goals possible and develop a wellness plan to keep you focused on your goals after you discharge from Menninger.

 

Your personalized treatment plan includes an intensive schedule of therapy and education; view a sample schedule here. Therapy will consist of both individual and family therapy and group therapy, too. You might even find that art therapy or music therapy will be a part of your treatment plan.

 

Education consists of psychoeducational groups that focus on shame resilience, perfectionism, mentalizing, dialectical behavior therapy, coping with trauma and much more. The groups you attend will be selected based on your treatment needs.

 

We also leave plenty of time for activities like exercising, reading, practicing skills you learn with peers and participating in recreational activities therapy with patients and staff.

 

To learn more about what it's like as an inpatient, check out our inpatient handbook.

 

Seeking inpatient care is a big decision. Call us at 713-275-5400, and we’ll help you determine if Compass is a good fit for your needs.