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.
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.
