Women's Services

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Women’s Services offers treatment for adolescent and adult women struggling with eating disorders, addiction, and a range of psychiatric disorders. Treatment is comprehensive and individualized with three levels of care — inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient.

Women’s Services offers a safe and nurturing community where women of all ages offer each other hope and support.

Our inpatient program provides 24-hour nursing care, which may include tube feeding, psychiatric stabilization, medical stabilization, medication management and/or detoxification.

Our partial hospitalization program offers a full treatment day of experiential and expressive therapies. Eating disorder patients have an extended treatment day, enabling them to have two supervised meals daily which offers additional support and guidance, as well as a sense of community and awareness for all patients. Those participating in the partial hospitalization program may live at home or reside in the Women’s Recovery Residence. The monitored residence offers opportunity for further growth and community support as patients continue in treatment.

The intensive outpatient program offers flexible scheduling for patients in school or working, as well as those stepping down from a more intensive level of care. Patients may enter treatment at any level or transition through the levels, depending upon individual need.

In all levels of care, the treatment environment is safe and nurturing. Our experienced treatment team promotes self-responsibility, encouraging each woman to take an active role in her recovery.

Because family involvement is crucial to an individual’s recovery, Ridgeview offers a variety of treatment and services for families of Women’s Services patients. These include regular family therapy, a weekly multi-family education group, a support group — Friends and Family of People with Eating Disorders (F.E.D.), and a variety of excellent 12-step meetings, such as Al-Anon, Codependence Anonymous, and Emotions Anonymous.

Eating disorders treatment

The Eating Disorders Program provides treatment for adolescent and adult women with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders. We integrate a variety of clinical and didactic approaches to address eating disorders in a comprehensive and individualized manner.

A master’s level registered dietitian develops an individualized food plan for each patient and attends meals with patients. Food focus groups, held after each meal, help patients stay connected with their feelings and manage any behavioral changes.

The goal of treatment is to help patients stabilize body weight, develop healthy eating patterns, identify and begin to heal the emotional issues that trigger symptoms, and develop the coping skills needed to prevent relapse.

Treatment for affective, trauma, and addiction disorders

Additional treatment tracks are provided for women experiencing a range of disorders including depression, anxiety, obsessive, and trauma disorders, as well as addiction. Because treatment occurs within a community of women, patients often feel safer exploring difficult issues than in a mixed-gender setting. The goal of treatment is to help patients resolve or stabilize their debilitating symptoms, identify their triggers or precipitants, and develop alternative coping skills.

Treatment modalities

• 24-hour nursing care provides a variety of care including psychiatric stabilization, medical stabilization, and detoxification in an inpatient setting.
• medication management, as needed
• experiential groups
• psycho-educational groups
• expressive therapy
• family therapy
• 12-step recovery meetings
• support group meetings

Specialized groups

• trauma
• grief/bereavement issues
• nutrition
• life skills
• body image
• family education
• leisure skills
• stress reduction

Continuing care

The treatment team works closely with each patient to set realistic goals during treatment, to maintain communication with outpatient therapists, physicians, and school counselors, as needed, and to establish outpatient contacts and appointments prior to discharge. We also assist patients and their families in locating appropriate 12-step meetings, support groups, and other needed treatment or supportive services in their communities.

Patients who successfully complete treatment will be invited to continue in our Aftercare Program. Additionally, our active Women’s Alumni Association provides continuing support and fellowship for women following discharge.

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Referral & Admissions
For more information on our Women's Services, admission, or referral to a therapist or physician, call the Ridgeview Access Center, (770) 434-4567 or 1 (800) 329-9775.  Our Access Center staff are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond to calls.