Wyoming State Hospital

Wyoming State Hospital

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There are currently state and federally funded or sponsored drug and alcohol treatment centers in the state of Wyoming

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What kinds of care do they offer?

  • Mental health treatment

    Includes interventions such as therapy or psychotropic medication that treat a person's mental health problem or condition, reduce symptoms, and improve behavioral functioning and outcomes.

  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

    Housing for individuals recovering from substance abuse that is designed to provide a drug and alcohol-free living environment and appropriate support services to facilitate movement to independent living. Such housing includes transitional living, sober houses, sober living, recovery houses, and 3/4 houses.

What type of facility is this?

  • Psychiatric hospital

    Licensed general hospital (public or private) that provides inpatient mental health services in at least one separate psychiatric living unit. This unit must have specifically allocated staff and space (beds) for the treatment of persons with mental illness. The unit may be located in the hospital itself or in a separate building, either adjacent or more remote, and is owned by the hospital. It may also provide 24-hour residential care and/or less than 24-hour care (e.g., outpatient, day treatment, partial hospitalization), but these additional service settings are not requirements.

What types of treatment approaches do they offer?

  • Individual psychotherapy

    Focuses on a patient's current life and relationships within the family, social, and work environments through one-on-one conversations with a therapist. The goal is to identify and resolve problems with insight, as well as build on strengths.

  • Group therapy

    Involves groups of usually 4 to 12 people who have similar problems and who meet regularly with a therapist. The therapist uses the emotional interactions of the group's members to (1) help them get relief from distress and (2) possibly modify their behavior.

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy

    Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.

  • Dialectical behavior therapy

    A cognitive behavioral treatment approach with two key characteristics: a behavioral, problem-solving focus blended with acceptance-based strategies, and an emphasis on dialectical processes. "Dialectical" refers to the issues involved in treating patients with multiple disorders and to the type of thought processes and behavioral styles used in the treatment strategies. DBT has five components: (1) capability enhancement (skills training); (2) motivational enhancement (individual behavioral treatment plans); (3) generalization (access to therapist outside clinical setting, homework, and inclusion of family in treatment); (4) structuring of the environment (programmatic emphasis on reinforcement of adaptive behaviors); and (5) capability and motivational enhancement of therapists (therapist team consultation group). DBT emphasizes balancing behavioral change, problem-solving, and emotional regulation with validation, mindfulness, and acceptance.

  • Activity therapy

    Includes art, dance, music, recreational and occupational therapies, and psychodrama.

  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

    The Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) is a rating scale that was designed in the 1970s to measure involuntary movements known as tardive dyskinesia (TD).

  • Smoking not permitted

    Smoking is not allowed.

What type of setting is this location?

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

    Medical treatment that is provided in a hospital or other facility and requires at least one overnight stay.

Who is responsible for the operation of this facility?

  • State government

    Government of a country subdivision in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government and must meet certain standards set by the federal government, but are free to expand beyond what exists at the federal level and improve services, access, and protections for consumers, such as mental health and substance abuse services, in that state.

What types of payment or funding do they accept?

  • Cash or self-payment

    Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.

  • Medicaid

    A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.

  • Medicare

    The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.

  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

  • Private health insurance

  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

    Funds designed to finance the cost of treatment for mental health conditions.

  • Other State funds

Do they offer any emergency mental health services?

  • Crisis intervention team

    A self-initiated community partnership between local law enforcement, county health services, mental health advocates, and mental health consumers. It is designed to address the needs of mental health consumers who enter the judicial system during a crisis state.

What language services are offered?

  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

    Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.

What specific groups are treated here?

  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for LGBT clients.

  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for clients referred from the court/judicial system.

  • Seniors or older adults

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Seniors or older adults.

  • Clients who have experienced trauma

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced trauma.

  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with serious mental illness.

  • Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with Alzheimer's or dementia.

  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with post-traumatic stress disorder.

What ancillary services are offered at this facility?

  • Case management service

    Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

  • Chronic disease/illness management

    A systematic approach to improving health care for people with chronic disease. Central to most CDM approaches are patient self-management, physician education, and organizational support. Among the variety of strategies employed are case management, continuous quality improvement, disease management (DM) and the chronic care model (CCM).

  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment

    Known by different terms in different states, such as, ?assisted outpatient treatment (AOT),? ?involuntary outpatient treatment,? or ?mandatory outpatient treatment.? Forty-four states permit the use of court-ordered outpatient treatment as a condition for persons with severe mental illness, who are too ill to seek care voluntarily, to remain in their community. Each state has its own civil commitment laws that establish criteria for determining when court-ordered treatment is appropriate for these individuals. (https://www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=228)

  • Education services

    Locate or provide educational services from basic literacy through a general equivalency diploma and college courses including special education at the pre-primary, primary, secondary, and adult levels.

  • Suicide prevention services

    Include identifying risk factors; educating staff on identifying the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.

What specific pharmacotherapy treatments do they provide?

  • Nicotine replacement

    Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.

  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

    Are medications that do not contain nicotine but act on the brain to reduce a person's craving for tobacco. Some common medications are Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin), and Nortriptyline (Pamelor). Medications are often prescribed in conjunction with behavioral counseling or support groups to provide the best chance for achieving long-term smoking abstinence. (http://www.mayoclinic.com)

  • Haloperidol

    Haloperidol is used to treat psychotic disorders and is also used to control motor tics and verbal tics in adults and children who have Tourette's disorder. Haloperidol is also used to treat severe behavioral problems such as explosive, aggressive behavior or hyperactivity in children who cannot be treated with psychotherapy or with other medications. Haloperidol is in a group of medications called conventional antipsychotics. It works by decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain.

  • Aripiprazole

  • Clozapine

  • Olanzapine

  • Paliperidone

  • Quetiapine

  • Risperidone

  • Ziprasidone

  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

    A multi-disciplinary clinical team approach, helps those with serious mental illness live in the community by providing 24-hour intensive community services in the individual's natural setting.

What types of screening and assessment methods are used here?

  • Screening for tobacco use

    Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.

What kinds of education and counseling services are offered here?

  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

    Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.

What age groups are accepted here?

  • Young Adults

    Facility accepts young adults (13-25) for treatment.

  • Adults

    Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.

  • Seniors

    Facility accepts seniors (65 or older) for treatment.

What types of testing do they offer?

  • HIV testing

    Determines whether you are infected with HIV, a virus that weakens the immune system and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

  • STD testing

    Testing to determine the type of sexually transmitted disease a person may be carrying.

  • TB screening

    Skin tests that are used to screen people who are at high risk for TB exposure such as people with diseases or conditions that weaken their immune system.

  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring

  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)

    Involves blood test that measure HBV (Hepatitis B virus) antigens and antibodies.

  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)

    Test for Hepatitis C, which is usually done and recommended for persons currently injecting drugs, ever injected drugs, were prior recipients of transfusions or organ transplants, or have certain medical conditions, including persons: 1. who received clotting factor concentrates produced before 1987 2. who were ever on long-term hemodialysis 3. with persistently abnormal alanine aminotransferase levels (ALT) 4. who have HIV infection

  • Laboratory testing

Is vaping allowed at this facility?

  • Vaping not permitted

How do I apply for admission at this location?

Have you been to this facility? What was your experience?

Is there a wait-list for treatment center?

Is any payment required?

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