Adolescents
Adolescents who require intensive therapeutic services after hospitalization, or to prevent hospitalization, may participate in our Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program. Patients can be referred during hospitalization or by outpatient psychiatric providers. This Monday through Friday, after-school program provides comprehensive assessment, therapeutic structure and support within a nurturing group-therapy format. It is a short-term program that utilizes a cognitive-behavioral and family systems approach to help adolescents manage symptoms, improves social skills in a variety of settings, and provides families/caregivers with education and techniques to maximize the adolescents' functioning.
Clinical Services provided by the Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program may include:
- Comprehensive and multidisciplinary biopsychosocial evaluations
- Cognitive-behavioral group therapy focusing on effective management of behavioral, emotional and/or substance-abuse problems; and learning skills to increase tolerance and regulation of feelings and interpersonal effectiveness
- Intensive family therapy
- Discharge planning and collaboration with the adolescent's school, outpatient clinicians, family and other community agencies to facilitate an integrated approach, to establish comprehensive transition plans and to promote the adolescent's optimal functioning
Adults
Adult patients who have achieved some stability but continue to need more intensive treatment than traditional outpatient therapy, or to prevent hospitalization, may be treated within our Adult Intensive Outpatient Program. Most of these patients are admitted for treatment of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, chronic suicidal ideation, co-occurring disorders (psychiatric and substance-abuse disorders), personality disorders, and family/interpersonal conflicts. Patients can be referred during the hospitalization or by outpatient psychiatric providers. Participants attend the program three to four times a week for four hours each day. There are three main tracks in this program:
- General Adult Track (for patients with general mood or anxiety disorders)
- Dual Diagnosis Track (for patients with both psychiatric and substance-abuse diagnoses)
- Dialectical Behavioral Track (primarily for patients with borderline personality disorder and other severe personality disorders)
Clinical Services provided by the Adult Intensive Outpatient Program may include:
- Comprehensive and multidisciplinary biopsychosocial evaluation
- Crisis intervention and case management to help patients safely manage their psychiatric or co-occurring disorders on an ambulatory basis with increasing self- and community-support reliance
- Cognitive-behavioral groups that focus on continued development of coping and problem-solving skills and relapse prevention
- Group therapy that actively addresses interpersonal problems which may contribute to the patient's ongoing psychiatric problems or co-occurring disorders
- Psychoeducational groups that strengthen the patient's commitment to change problematic behaviors
- Medication consultation to community psychiatrists and other physicians prescribing pharmacologic treatments for patients and promotion of medication compliance
- Discharge planning and collaboration with patients' outpatient treaters, family and community agencies to facilitate an integrated approach and to establish comprehensive transition plans that promote patients' optimal functioning