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About Lifeskills South Florida
As a national center of clinical excellence, Lifeskills South Florida has been a trusted provider, dually licensed to treat complex psychiatric disorders, substance abuse disorders, and process addictions. Helping individuals in their recovery journeys for over 30 years, Lifeskills offers a full continuum of care including detoxification, intensive residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of care along with transitional housing.
What Makes Lifeskills Different?
Dually Licensed
Fully Accredited
All levels of care are fully accredited by CARF or Joint Comission and our transitional living services are certified by the Florida Association of Recovery Residences (FARR).
Clinical Expertise
Clinically Excellent Care Informed By Research and Training
LIfeskills has a tailored, comprehensive outcomes measurement approach that aligns with the diagnostic categories that we treat using our unique clinical pathways. Clients at Lifeskills participate in an integrated care regimen based on their individual clinical needs.
Our treatment team includes a quintuple board-certified physician as well as licensed doctoral and master’s level clinicians with multiple certifications in their respective specialties. Lifeskills utilizes a wide variety of evaluation tools to inform client care including:
- Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS-24), a 24-item assessment which identifies a wide range of symptoms and problems that occur across the diagnostic spectrum.
- The Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale (DERS), which assesses the effectiveness of DBT.
- The Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI-10), which demonstrates an individual’s positive endorsement of why they are taking their medication and adhering to the psychiatric protocol.
- The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), which is a 24-item symptom scale used by clinicians to assess and measure psychiatric symptoms.
- Short Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview (SPRINT), a PTSD global assessment tool that assesses symptoms of intrusion, avoidance, numbing and arousal, and related aspects of PTSD.
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Previous Reports
2023 Client Demographics and Diagnoses
Patient Complexity
81% of clients had 2 or more co-occurring diagnoses confirmed at admission
Age
Primary Diagnosis
Secondary Diagnosis
Total Discharges: 333 | Average Length of Stay: 54 days
2023 Outcomes:
Lifeskills Residential Services
Post pandemic, client symptom complexity and severity has continued to be more acute due to an ongoing trend of individuals delaying treatment for longer than they did pre-pandemic. This elevated acuity trend is seen across the U.S., and Lifeskills has responded with
programmatic adjustments to care for those with more complex psychiatric conditions.
Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS-24)
Post pandemic, client symptom complexity and severity has continued to be more acute due to an ongoing trend of individuals delaying treatment for longer than they did pre-pandemic. This elevated acuity trend is seen across the U.S., and Lifeskills has responded with programmatic adjustments to care for those with more complex psychiatric conditions.
5-Year Average Results
Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale (DERS)
5-Year
Average Results
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
2023 Average Change
5-Year Longitudinal Average
Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI-10)
5-Year results of clients reporting a positive relationship with their medications
Of this 100%, 74% of clients reported a
positive attitude with their medications
Short Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview (SPRINT)
2-Year Average Client Percent Change
2-Year Average Self-reported Change for “How much do you feel better since beginning treatment?”
What Our Alumni, Their Families, and Clinical Partners Are Saying
– Grateful Lifeskills Alumnus
– Grateful Lifeskills Alumnus
– Grateful Family Member of a Lifeskills Alumnus
– Grateful Family Member of a Lifeskills Alumnus
– Susanne Johnson, CAI-II, CBI, CRS, EMR, Clinical Partner of Lifeskills
– Matthew Abraham, Clinical Partner of Lifeskills