Kensington HospitalResidential Treatment in Philadelphia, PA
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Friends Hospital is located on 100 beautiful acres in Northeast Philadelphia and is one of America's oldest hospitals and the first private non-profit institution founded exclusively to help persons with mental illness. The hospital was founded by the Quakers in 1813 based on the belief that all people can live a "moral, ordered existence if treated with kindness, dignity, and respect." Friends Hospital provides inpatient and residential mental health and substance use treatment options for adults and older adults. The facility offers an Adult Program for ages 18 to 55 with acute mental health symptoms, an Older Adult Program for ages 55 and older experiencing issues such as depression or psychosis, services for LGBTQ+ patients, the Greystone Residential Program for long-term community residence for individuals over 21, and a Crisis Response Center (CRC) available 24/7 for emergency walk-in psychiatric evaluations for adults age 18 and older.
Role
Residential Treatment
What a first session looks like
Virtual & In-PersonThe admission department at Friends Hospital is operated 24/7 by specially trained staff. For those in crisis, the Crisis Response Center provides 24/7 emergency walk-in psychiatric evaluations for adults age 18 and older; call 215-831-2600 or 800-889-0548.
Specialties & focus areas
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Activity therapy
Activity Therapy. Structured therapeutic activities, recreation, movement, hands-on tasks, used as a vehicle for connection and emotional regulation. Often paired with talk therapy in residential and group programs.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Couples/family therapy
Family Therapy. Brings the people closest to the recovery into the room. Less about blame, more about updating the patterns that fed the cycle so the home becomes part of the recovery.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Integrated mental and substance use disorder treatment
Integrated Treatment. Treats addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions in the same plan, rather than sequentially. Most clinically effective when both are present.
Individual psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy. One-to-one sessions with a licensed clinician. The standard-bearer of mental-health care; most evidence-based plans build around it.
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