Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families

At Vista Health System, we realize that the future of our community relies upon the well-being of our children. To this end, we have developed a broad range of care for children and adolescents, seeking to build brighter tomorrows for our youth.

Inpatient Child Psychiatry Program • 847.360.2720

We operate the only inpatient child psychiatry program in Lake County. Services are provided under the care and direction of board-certified child/adolescent psychiatrists. Treatment components include:

• Psychiatric evaluation
• Group and Individual psychotherapy
• Family psychotherapy
• On-unit school program with full-time teacher
• Full inpatient treatment milieu
• Full aftercare planning
• Expressions therapy

Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry Program • 847.360.2720

We operate the only inpatient adolescent psychiatry program in northern Lake County. Services are provided under the care and direction of a board-certified child/adolescent psychiatrist. Treatment components include:

• Psychiatric evaluation
• Gradual and Individual psychotherapy
• Family psychotherapy
• Substance use assessment
• On-Unit school program with full-time teacher
• Full inpatient treatment milieu
• Full aftercare planning

Intensive Outpatient Program:
Skills Training for Adolescents • 847.625.6252

Teaching a young person how to deal with anger, sadness or disappointment, how to control behavior or how to get along better with a brother or sister requires a variety of carefully chosen activities and experiences. Skills Training for Adolescents is a unique program offered by Vista Health System to teach teens (ages 12-17) skills to cope with:

• Strong emotions
• Life stresses
• Low self-esteem
• Conflicts with others
• Peer problems
• Problems at home or in school

It is an educational and therapeutic program that is short term and goal specific. Skills Training for Adolescents was developed and is supervised by a licensed child psychologist. The program is run by masters level clinicians and experienced mental health workers. 

Parent Education • 847.625.6058

We offer parent training classes utilizing one of the most popular and effective training modules available. Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (S.T.E.P.). This time-limited parent training group is designed to help parents acquire key skills such as improved communication, consistent approached to discipline and effective collaboration between parents in child rearing. Classes are generally offered in the spring.