Adults
Burrell Behavioral Health

We are committed to providing behavioral health services that are tailored to meet the specific and individual needs of adults. Problems have solutions, and we want to help you find the ones that work for you. 

Emergency services are available 24 hours, seven days a week for individuals facing a crisis. Professional counselors help clients identify and manage immediate problems, then recommend a course of action to prevent recurrence of the problem. For 24-hour crisis assistance call 417/862-6555 or 1-800-494-7355

Outpatient counseling and psychotherapy are available with licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers and licensed psychologists. These services include individual, group, family and marital therapy.

Staff psychiatrists provide evaluation, treatment, medication management and consultation.

The Adult Crisis Stabilization Unit offers structured, short-term residential programming focused on assisting mentally ill adults (or others facing severe emotional crises) avoid hospitalization.

• active participation in the treatment, rehabilitation and program development processes
• normalization and community integration
• independent functioning to the extent possible
• achievement of productive and satisfying lives related to the individual�s capabilities and desires
• access to a complete and coordinated array of mental health and other services according to individual needs and circumstances.

Burrell has an array of housing services to provide structure and support according to each individual's capacity for independent functioning. These include independent living arrangements, semi-independent apartments and structured housing.

Burrell�s community support staff help clients attain and then maintain integration into the community in their own apartment or home setting. The intensity of services is individualized to suit each client�s needs and includes in-home visits twice monthly to several times weekly, coupled with assistance in arranging community services or help facilitating communication with landlords, neighbors, friends and family. The two goals of the program: to prevent hospitalization and to help clients achieve the goals they have set for themselves, better insure that clients achieve their full potential and improve the overall quality of their lives.

The Center for Addictions provides treatment services at Cox North for chemically dependent adults ages 18 and up.

Inpatient services include two 20-bed units where we provide rapid evaluation, stabilization and short-term treatment for adults suffering from a variety of psychiatric disorders.