Vive Adolescent Care, located just 100 miles up I-15 from Las Vegas, Nevada, offers a complete continuum of mental health care exclusively for adolescents ages 12–17. From crisis to recovery—our medical and professional services are for adolescents only, and all within one specialized facility. Most of our services are covered by health insurers.
Our Mental Health Emergency Hospital, is for teens experiencing an acute psychiatric or behavioral health crisis receive immediate evaluation, stabilization, and intensive inpatient care.
When continued support is needed, or for youth coming from other hospitals, Vive’s Residential Treatment Program provides a structured, therapeutic environment where adolescents can address underlying mental health challenges through individualized treatment, psychiatric care, evidence-based therapies, and family involvement.
As teens gain stability and prepare to return home, Vive’s Outpatient and Aftercare Services provide ongoing therapeutic support designed to maintain progress, strengthen families, and promote lasting recovery.
Together, with three levels of care in one location, Vive helps adolescents move seamlessly toward full recovery without being moved from facility to facility.
The Vive Clinical Model
Our clinical model is rooted in evidenced-based treatment. Every adolescent at Vive Adolescent Care receives an individualized treatment plan tailored to their unique emotional, behavioral, and clinical needs. Shortly after admission, each client completes a comprehensive series of assessments that helps the treatment team better understand their strengths, challenges, and diagnoses. These findings are used to develop a personalized treatment approach designed to promote meaningful progress and lasting stability.
The Personalized Treatment Plan
While at Vive Adolescent Care, each client receives a personalized treatment plan created together with the therapist to which they are assigned. Upon admission, each client also receives a battery of assessments that helps to formulate specific clinical approaches applicable to them.
Each client is assigned a primary therapist who works closely with them throughout their stay. Individual therapy sessions are scheduled according to the client’s clinical needs, with most adolescents meeting privately with their therapist at least twice each week. Because lasting progress depends on family involvement, parents or guardians also participate in weekly family therapy sessions that strengthen communication, address underlying concerns, and help prepare the family for a successful transition home.
Clinical Therapies
Vive also offers a deeper dive into the following types of clinical therapies:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life. In many studies, CBT has been demonstrated to be as effective as, or more effective than, other forms of psychological therapy or psychiatric medications.
Strategic Family Therapy
Strategic Family Therapy combines two major therapeutic models, strategic therapy and family therapy. Within the safety of therapeutic setting, strategic family therapists replicate family interactions and conversations, prompting and engaging participants with provocative questions and discussions. During these sessions, problems present themselves, and the therapists can uncover the person’s strengths and abilities at solving their own problems drawing on internal resources that they hadn’t before acknowledged or even realized that they possessed.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is a counseling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. This type of therapy is often used to address addiction and helps people become motivated to change the behaviors that are preventing them from making healthier choices. It can also prepare individuals for further, more specific types of therapies.
Mindfulness and Meditation
Mindfulness and Meditation is a focus on being intensely aware of what one is sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgement. Practicing mindfulness and meditation involves breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress. The overall evidence of mindfulness and meditation exercises cna help with stress, anxiety, pain, depression, and insomnia.
Recreational Therapy
Recreational Therapy (RT) is a systematic process that utilizes recreation and other activity-based interventions to address the needs of individuals with illness and/or disabling conditions, as a means to psychological and physical health, recovery and well-being. The purpose of the RT process is to improve or maintain physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual fuctioning in order to facilitate full participation in life.
DBT Group Therapy
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy tries to identify and change negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT may be used to treat suicidal and other self-destructive behaviors.
The Joint Commission ★ National Quality Approval
When families choose mental health treatment for a adolescent, trust matters. That’s why VIVE Adolescent Care is proud to have earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval®, a nationally recognized symbol of excellence awarded only to healthcare organizations that meet rigorous standards for quality, patient safety, and clinical performance. Accreditation by The Joint Commission reflects an ongoing commitment to evidence-based care, continuous improvement, and accountability, giving parents added confidence that their child is receiving treatment from an organization dedicated to the highest standards of healthcare.
