Behavioral Health Residential Facility
Progress in treatment is personal. At Catalina, we use clinical assessments, individual goals and your feedback to understand how care is going and plan the next step together.
Here’s what you and your loved ones can expect from those conversations, from setting your first goals to planning for support after treatment.
How we review your progress
Start with your goals
Early in treatment, you and your primary clinician build a plan around what matters to you. One person may want to work on sleep and routines. Another may want to practice responding to cravings or feel more prepared for situations that bring up anxiety.
We review your treatment plan with you each week. You can talk about what’s helping, what feels difficult and whether your goals or the support you need have changed.
- Set goals
- Review progress
- Adjust the plan
- Prepare for the next step
Follow changes during treatment
Your clinician may ask you to complete a brief questionnaire during care. The tools we use depend on your symptoms, goals and clinical needs. Using the same tool at different points can help you and your clinician talk about what’s changed.
| Area | Example tool | What it helps the team discuss |
|---|---|---|
| Depression | PHQ-9 | Changes in symptoms such as low mood, loss of interest and low energy. |
| Anxiety | GAD-7 | How often worry, tension or difficulty relaxing come up. |
| Trauma symptoms | PCL-5 | Changes in symptoms such as unwanted memories, avoidance or feeling on edge. |
| Recovery factors | BAM | Substance use, situations that make recovery harder and supports that help. |
The team also makes separate safety assessments when appropriate. Those checks help clinicians understand immediate concerns and decide what support or safety planning is needed.
Adjust your treatment plan
Your progress is more than a score. Your clinician also listens to how daily life is going, what you’re noticing in treatment and which goals you want to keep working on.
Together, you may decide to spend more time on a skill, change a goal or discuss a different level of care. For example, if you’re using a grounding skill in sessions but find it hard to use at home, you can work with your clinician on when and how to practice it.
Planning for continued support
Prepare for discharge
Discharge planning starts early in treatment. Your case manager works with you and your care team to identify the support you may need next. That may include a step down to outpatient treatment, appointments with a community provider or a plan for medication follow-up.
Case management helps coordinate referrals and schedule follow-up appointments before you leave. Your plan can include where and when you’ll meet with the next provider. We track attendance separately when it can be confirmed.
You can compare our levels of care, learn how step-down programs work or explore aftercare planning.
Stay connected after treatment
Catalina offers follow-up check-ins and alumni opportunities after treatment. Check-ins give you a chance to share how things are going and ask about support. Alumni gatherings offer a way to stay in touch with peers if you choose to participate. Your discharge plan identifies who to contact for ongoing clinical care.
Understanding treatment outcomes
Each piece of information answers a different question. Symptom changes describe how someone is feeling or functioning. Program completion describes whether someone finished the planned course of care. Continuing-care attendance records whether a follow-up visit took place. Client feedback describes the experience of care, and later check-ins help us understand what happens after discharge.
When you ask how a program tracks progress, it’s reasonable to ask what it measures, when it checks in and whose information is included.
Listening to clients
We ask for feedback on the experience of care, including whether you felt treated with respect, had a voice in decisions and felt prepared for what came next. You can also raise questions or concerns during treatment, when there’s still time to talk through them with your team.
Talk with Admissions
If you’re considering treatment for yourself or someone you love, ask us how we set goals, review progress and plan the transition to ongoing support. Our Admissions team can explain the programs and talk with you about a next step.
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References
Catalina’s facility and program questionnaire informs the description of our care process. The sources below explain the assessment tools.
- Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. L., & Williams, J. B. W. (2001). The PHQ-9: Validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(9), 606–613. Read the PHQ-9 study.
- Spitzer, R. L., Kroenke, K., Williams, J. B. W., & Löwe, B. (2006). A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: The GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(10), 1092–1097. Read the GAD-7 study.
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD. (n.d.). PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5).
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (n.d.). The Brief Addiction Monitor (BAM) and its use in substance use disorder care (PDF).
