At Mount Sinai South Nassau, we can help you or your loved one with a wide range of mental health and addiction issues. Our first step is to assess the situation and determine the best approach. Since these issues can be very individual, we offer a range of treatment options. We provide outpatient care, partial hospitalization, and short-term inpatient care. Your health care team will discuss these options with you and help determine the most appropriate approach to meeting your needs and goals.

Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit

Our team of doctors, nurses, counselors, therapists, social workers, and others provide state-of-the-art inpatient psychiatric care. We can help you or your loved one address new or worsening symptoms quickly, safely, and with dignity. We can assist, whether you have new or worsening symptoms. Our experienced staff offers short-term inpatient care and provides rapid stabilization for a wide range of acute psychiatric conditions such as:

• Bipolar disorder
• Depression
• Schizophrenia

Our 36-bed unit contains an indoor and outdoor activity area, as well as spaces designed to enhance communications among patients, loved ones, and staff.

Partial Hospitalization Program

This program is geared to those who need intensive treatment but do not require 24-hour care. We provide treatment in a highly structured environment, but only during the day. This means you can live at home, maintaining your independence and your ties to the community and loved ones. This is a short-term program typically lasting a few days to a few weeks. It is based in Baldwin, New York, and can help you reduce or even avoid having to stay in the hospital.

Our experienced staff teach you a variety of skills to help you manage your condition. These skills include cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and pinpointing unhealthy behaviors and thought patterns. We will also help you identify and pursue activities and behaviors that promote recovery.

Treatment is from 9 am-1 pm each weekday and includes:

• After-care planning
• Care coordination
• Case management
• Family meetings
• Individual and group therapy
• Medication consultation and treatment
• Socialization

Daily group therapy focuses on topics and skills such as:

• Communicating assertively
• Handling stress
• Managing anger
• Processing and regulating emotions
• Setting goals
• Preventing relapse
• Understanding medication

We also offer art therapy, using drawing, painting, mandalas, and clay. In addition, we provide experiential activities such as guided imagery, diaphragmatic breathing, meditation, chair yoga, and progressive muscle relaxation.

Intensive Outpatient Program

Our three-day-a-week Intensive Outpatient Program serves those who either:

• Have completed the Partial Hospitalization Program and can benefit from cognitive behavioral treatment
• Require more than the typical once-a-week treatment

This program can help you manage your symptoms; process life events; learn appropriate methods of communication; and function in social, occupational, educational, and interpersonal settings. As with our other programs, the Intensive Outpatient Program team includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, psychiatrists, and art therapists.

Group therapy is a main component of the Intensive Outpatient Program. In group therapy, we address:

• Creative expression
• Daily psychotherapy
• Emotion regulation
• Recovery
• Symptom management
• Wellness

Most people are in the program for three weeks to six months. You can choose either the midday (10 am-2 pm) or afternoon track (noon-3:45 pm).