Mental health treatment centers that are evidence-based use science – the findings of reputable studies – to drive their treatment models and to guide client care. As an evidence-based psychiatric treatment center, Skyland Trail uses data to select treatments that have been proven to successfully help patients reduce symptoms and improve functioning.

Just because one study shows that something is good for diagnosis or outcomes, doesn’t make it evidence-based. The Skyland Trail chief medical officer and the psychiatry team determine if and when the community of psychiatric physicians believes a new therapy or technology has been adequately scrutinized and replicated by enough researchers with no vested interest in the results to be deemed a new standard of care.

If you are investing your time, energy and resources in a recovery program, you should be confident that the program is:

1. offering therapeutic interventions that research has shown to be effective
2. beginning treatment with an thorough diagnostic assessment to establish or confirm the client's diagnoses
3. using results of the assessment to develop an evidence-based, individualized treatment plan for each client

When people participate in treatment that doesn't work for them, they may become frustrated or hopeless and give up.  We know that really effective treatments for almost all mental illnesses exist, and that, with effort and investment, most patients can recover.  That can require a lot of work, though.  We use evidence-based best practices to make that work pay off.