Barboursville School

A program of River Park Hospital

 

River Park Hospital’s Barboursville School is a psychiatric residential treatment program for adolescents with serious emotional disturbance. The primary goal is to provide individualized treatment, education and care in a highly structured environment so the residents may return to their home communities as soon as possible.

 

Youth are admitted to the program through a Chapter 27 (Mental Hygiene) Final Commitment. These youth will have a DSM-IV diagnosis and will have been determined to be a danger to self or others, thereby requiring treatment in a more secure setting

 

 

Typical Behaviors

 

Typical behaviors exhibited by youth admitted to the program include suicidal or homicidal ideation, physical aggression, psychotic or other bizarre thinking or behavior and/or mood disturbances.

 

Treatment Services

  • Assessment
  • Individualized Treatment Planning
  • Individual, group and family therapy
  • Medical care, including 24-hour a day nursing care
  • Psychiatric management
  • Social services
  • Recreation services

  • The on-grounds school is provided by the WV Department of Education, Division of Institutional programs

 

 

Referrals

 

Referrals to the Barboursville School are initiated by calling and/or sending a referral packet to the program director. This should include specific information about the child’s:

  • Current emotional and behavioral condition
  • Psychiatric evaluation
  • Psychological evaluation, including IQ
  • Social history
  • Past treatment records

 

Direct Inquiries To:

Program Director

Barboursville School

1535 Martha Road

P.O. Box 490

Barboursville, WV, 25504

(304) 736-0915

FAX (304) 736-0918