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Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Service

Has your mental health journey led you to a crisis? Have your symptoms become especially challenging over time? Then Menninger’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Service (CPAS) might be the right treatment program for you.

Who We Help

CPAS helps adults who:

Have not responded to previous treatment, including medication
Need stabilization for a psychiatric crisis
Need a comprehensive assessment or second opinion with the support offered by an inpatient setting

Menninger has been helping patients with complex or severe mental illness since 1925. Our treatment outcomes and our appearance on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals List for psychiatry since 1991 attests to our success in helping patients overcome mental illness.

What We Treat

CPAS patients struggle with a variety of issues, including:

Severe depression
Cognitive issues like dementia
Thought disorders like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Anxiety
Addiction or substance use
Dual diagnoses (psychiatric illness combined with addiction)
Mania
Eating disorders
Psychiatric issues combined with medical and/or neurological disorders
Psychiatric disorders caused by medical conditions
Personality disorders

What CPAS Offers

CPAS offers stabilization, detox and assessment.

Stabilization

Sometimes symptoms get out of control. That’s when you need stabilization at an inpatient treatment center like Menninger.

CPAS is an alternative to the typical acute hospitalization. When you come to CPAS for stabilization, you’ll stay with us until you and your doctor decide that you’re stable and ready for the next step in treatment, not just a few days. While you’re here, the CPAS team will:

Stabilize your acute symptoms
Make a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment so that you can leave with a definitive diagnosis
Complete gene and biomarker testing as needed
Manage medical detoxification, if needed
Review your current medications and make recommendations for changes, if needed
Offer therapeutic groups to prepare you for the next stage in your treatment journey
Offer psychoeducation groups
Create a personalized discharge plan with treatment recommendations

If your symptoms prevent you from taking advantage of all that our stabilization track offers right after admitting to CPAS, that’s OK. We know it can take a few days to rest, acclimate to a new routine and even feel the effects of a change in medications, if that’s needed. It’s all part of your unique journey, and we respect that. Once you feel well enough, we’ll help you further engage in treatment.

Want to know what a typical week at CPAS is like? Here’s a sample program schedule.

Detox

If you need to detox from alcohol, opiates or other drugs and substances, you can do that right here on CPAS, unless you need intravenous hydration. If that’s the case, withdrawal can be managed at Menninger’s affiliate, The Methodist Hospital, followed by a transfer back to CPAS.

After stabilization, you can elect to have a full assessment on CPAS; continue treatment in another Menninger inpatient program or pursue other treatment options like outpatient therapy.

Assessments

Are you looking for a second opinion about a diagnosis while in a supportive, secure environment? Are you wondering why your symptoms continue despite repeated attempts at treatment? Do you have difficulties with brain functioning or with managing your behavior?

An inpatient assessment may be what you need to get answers to these and similar questions.

CPAS offers customized, intensive and therapeutic diagnostic evaluations. An assessment can help clarify your underlying issues and determine what the most effective treatment would be. The assessment’s findings can then help your future clinicians create an effective, personalized treatment plan, which starts during your assessment, to get you back on track as efficiently and effectively as possible.

The assessment may include:

Psychiatric evaluation
Genetic testing, as indicated
Neuropsychological screening, as indicated
MRI and other imaging tests
Psychological testing
Psychosocial evaluation
Family system evaluation
Additional tests, such as PET scans and sleep studies
Routine laboratory tests and specialized tests, if indicated
Urine toxicology screens
Specialty consultation, as indicated

To compile your summary and recommendations for treatment, the team conducts a thorough review of:

Records of referring and previous clinicians
Tests performed at Menninger
Medical and treatment history
Input from nurses, social workers and psychologists

Diagnostic Conference

After a thorough review of your assessment and test results, as well as reports from family and referring clinicians, the team meets with you and your family in person or by phone to share their findings and recommendations. The process results in:

A thorough understanding of your diagnoses and the factors that contribute to complex or recurring problems
Establishing common goals for future treatment
A plan for continued treatment
Support, learning and renewed hope

You’ll receive a summary of your stay after discharge and, if you give us the OK in writing, your referring professional will get a copy, too. If the team recommends continued hospitalization, you’ll be referred to an appropriate treatment setting that meets your specific needs.

If you transfer to another inpatient program at Menninger for continued treatment, your new team will use the information garnered from CPAS assessments and observations to inform the development of your treatment plan.