Torrance, CA Joint Commission

Star View Adolescent Center

Founded

1996

Program Length

30 days

Focus

At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.

Star View Adolescent Center in Torrance, California, is an adolescent residential program providing therapeutic and rehabilitative services to clients ages 12-17 with a high level of needs. They specialize in treating those with trauma and severe emotional challenges, providing an integrative therapeutic program that eliminates the need for adolescents to be admitted to a hospital. Star View has the capacity to host 60 clients at one time and their residential facility features an onsite pool, basketball court, and tennis court. Their therapeutic approach incorporates an individualized and evidence-based approach, giving clients the best opportunity to succeed. Some of their therapies include aggression replacement training (ART) and the attachment, regulation, and competency (ARC) model. The ART approach is a psychoeducation program that helps adolescents control anger. The ARC model is used to address trauma and incorporates family involvement to help adolescents process their emotions with a trusted loved one. Star View Adolescent Center is accredited by the Joint Commission and has been operating since 1996.

Services

Key offerings grouped by category

Type of Care

Mental health treatment Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Facility Type

Psychiatric hospital

Pharmacotherapies

Haloperidol Lurasidone Olanzapine Quetiapine Risperidone Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Treatment Approaches

Activity therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy Couples/family therapy Dialectical behavior therapy Group therapy Individual psychotherapy Telemedicine/telehealth therapy Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Emergency Mental Health Services

Crisis intervention team Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

Private for-profit organization

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

County or local government funds Other State funds State corrections or juvenile justice funds State education agency funds State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds State welfare or child and family services funds

Special Programs/Groups Offered

Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence Clients who have experienced trauma Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

Screening for tobacco use

Testing

Metabolic syndrome monitoring Laboratory testing

Recovery Support Services

Housing services Mentoring/peer support

Facility Smoking Policy

Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted

Children/Adolescents Adults

Language Services

Spanish

Facility Vaping Policy

Vaping not permitted

Ancillary Services

Diet and exercise counseling Family psychoeducation Intensive case management Psychosocial rehabilitation services Vocational rehabilitation services Case management service Suicide prevention services Education services

Contact Information

Address

4025 West 226th Street, Torrance, CA, 90505

Phone

(310) 373-4556 x 104

Contact

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