Our Clients
We provide services in the community to adults with serious mental illness that will stabilize their illness, minimize symptoms, improve functioning and enhance each person’s social inclusion, quality of life and sense of meaning in life. We provide transitional living and outpatient treatment for psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and other serious mental illnesses, and are considered experts in this area.
Whom do we treat?
Our primary target group of clients is people who suffer from a serious mental illness, such as a psychotic disorder or severe depression, many of whom have not done well in prior treatment. Our mission is to help these people with serious mental illness find the road to recovery, feel better and do well in life. The majority of our clients are diagnosed with a psychotic illness, and we provide treatment for psychotic disorders and specialize primarily as a schizophrenia and bipolar treatment center, in addition to helping clients with a schizoaffective disorder and other mental illnesses. What follows is a brief description of our clients, some information about their outcome from illness after they have been in treatment with Colorado Recovery for different periods of time, and an account of the services used to help them get there.
In June 2018, we gathered information about the entire group of 90 of our clients with a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder.
Client Characteristics
- Gender:
- Female:
- Male:
- Gender:
- 36%
- 64%
- Age:
- 18-25 years:
- 26-35 years
- 36-77 years
- Age:
- 19%
- 33%
- 48%
Our mental health facility provides treatment for psychotic disorders and accepts people with serious mental illness at any stage of their illness. We expect good outcomes regardless of the duration of the disorder. Approximately 50% of our clients are under 35 years of age and 50% in the over 36 year old range. Clients of any age will feel comfortable in our program.
Every new Colorado Recovery client gets an immediate and thorough psychiatric evaluation by one of our psychiatrists and a therapist which includes gathering full details on the person’s previous life, his/her experience of illness and prior treatment efforts. We involve close family members in the process of gathering this information. After assessing the client to get a full clinical picture, the treatment team gives an initial diagnostic impression and makes recommendations about further assessment and treatment. The client’s previous diagnosis may change at this point or later, after a period of further assessment.
A careful evaluation of the correct diagnosis and most effective treatment plan is central to the success of care at Colorado Recovery.
The diagnoses listed here are the diagnoses we determined to be accurate after initial assessment and treatment. All of our psychiatrists have input into this diagnostic process. Our diagnosis is often different from the client’s previous diagnosis.
- Diagnosis:
- Bipolar disorder:
- Schizoaffective disorder:
- Schizophrenia:
- Major depression + psychosis:
- Other psychosis:
- **No current psychotic disorder:
- Diagnosis:
- 32%
- 29%
- 15%
- 8%
- 2%
- 5%
We provide treatment for psychotic disorders and treat any type of psychotic disorder. Most of our clients, in fact, are diagnosed with an affective disorder and we are known for our expertise as a schizophrenia and bipolar treatment center. Failure to recognize or effectively treat these illnesses can lead to poor outcome, often resulting in referral to our specialist services. This could explain why we have more clients with these disorders.
Alcohol and drug problems in addition to psychiatric illness: 35%
Many of our clients who are admitted to treatment for a psychotic disorder have a substance use problem in addition to their psychiatric disorder. Successful treatment requires that we partner with the client to tackle both problems. We provide services that make this possible.
Colorado Recovery offers not only thorough psychiatric evaluation, accurate diagnosis and optimal treatment to stabilize the person’s illness, we also continue to work with our clients in the community to ensure continued stability and progress towards the person’s life goals independence, education, employment, career advancement and enhanced social relations. As a result many of our clients continue in some level of community care with us for months or years.
- Length of Time in Treatment with Colorado Recovery
- 6 months or less:
- 7 months to 2 years:
- 2-12 years:
- Length of Time in Treatment with Colorado Recovery
- 17%
- 17%
- 67%
