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When is U-center appropriate?
Conditions and criteria
At U-center, we can treat many mental health conditions. In particular, we specialize in treating multiple diagnoses at the same time (comorbidity). Yet even we cannot help everyone. Thus, we may advise you to submit your request for help to another institution, which can offer more appropriate treatment. This is how we ensure that each person receives the most appropriate care.
Criteria
A course at U-center is intensive and requires a lot from the client. Treatment can be very confrontational and evoke intense emotions. It requires a certain capacity of clients to cope with this intensive program. Therefore, we like to make a careful assessment together to see if this carrying capacity is sufficiently present. Of course, you can always call us for questions and advice. After all, each person is different and has an individual story that we love to listen to. Motivation for treatment is also always very important.
Age
At U-center, we treat adults 18 and older. For children and adolescents a different treatment offer is desirable. There is no upper age limit. As long as you can follow the program cognitively and in terms of your mobility, you can benefit greatly.
Special physical care
U-center tries to make everyone's stay as pleasant as possible, but we are not a nursing home or hospital. If you are bound to daily intensive physical nursing or hospital visits, unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the right help. Should you be severely underweight in combination with anorexia nervosa (BMI below 17) and/or need to be administered tube feeding, a specialized facility for that purpose is more appropriate.
Language Control
Treatment may be in the Dutch language or in English in the international teams. Adequate command of this is therefore necessary.
Complaints not suitable for an open treatment setting
U-center is an "open" clinic and does not have a closed ward. When there is confusion or psychosis, U-center may not be able to provide adequate protection and safety. With severe crisis sensitivity, it is often better to stabilize first in another setting. For some conditions, U-center is less suitable because a longer treatment time will be required, for example, chronic psychotic syndrome (schizophrenia) or bipolar disorder. Some people are less able to function in groups, for example, because of certain personality disorders or aggression issues. Some addictions, such as GHB, lend themselves less to U-center's treatment setting.
Impeding social situations
It is not desirable if after the stay at U-center, you have no place to return to. Also, ongoing litigation or ongoing labor disputes can hinder a proper focus on treatment. If there is a care authorization (ZM) you cannot come to us.