Embark at San Martin

For children experiencing and struggling with mental health issues, residential care provides a healing, nurturing, and safe environment to overcome issues like anxiety, depression, psychological trauma, self-harm, social isolation, academic difficulties, bullying, family conflict, and other mental health challenges through healing 24-hour care.

When outpatient therapy is not enough, residential care can provide safety and stabilization. Typically, short-term programs offer more intensive and condensed therapy compared to outpatient care (more individual sessions, more group therapy, more robust psychiatric services). Short-term residential treatment is often the option if the outpatient (IOP and PHP, or In-Home) doesn’t get to the root of the issues or if the teen or young adult is unsafe at home.

Our programs utilize a range of results-driven therapies and are proven to help teens progress in their mental health. Therapies at Embark Behavioral Health Short-Term Residential Treatment Centers include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART), Experiential Therapy.

Studies have shown that residential treatment can be more effective than outpatient treatment. Placing a troubled teen in residential care can give your child the 24-hour support that they need to overcome difficult mental health challenges.

While there are specific disorders such as anxiety and depression that warrant a stay in an RTC, other factors may also call for this level of care, including having educational needs that a less-restrictive setting cannot meet, lack of adequate support at home, a need for intensive treatment after receiving inpatient mental health care, safety issues, and unsuccessful outpatient treatment results.

A residential treatment center, also called a residential treatment facility or a rehab center, is a place where individuals can experience 24-hour care, pursuing therapy away from the stress of their home environment. At RTC’s, people can access a higher level of care than is typically provided in individual, group, or family therapy. Because many RTCs are age-restricted, many individuals find comfort, knowing they are not alone in their mental health struggles. In our nurturing home-like environment, we provide an empathetic and supportive therapeutic structure that helps your child manage their daily life tasks and make healthy lifestyle changes.

Short-term residential programs are intensive treatment programs that last between 30 to 90 days.

In short-term treatment, teenagers live at the treatment center and participate in a schedule of activities centered around treating mental health conditions and healing. The benefit of short-term residential programs is that they are accessible: typically, nearby, shorter-term so less disruptive, and are frequently reimbursed by insurance.