The partial hospitalization program
Our partial hospitalization program is an all-day, five-day per week, intensive, short-term treatment program serving children, ages 4 through 14, whose psychiatric problems require more intense treatment but can be safely maintained at home.
This program serves patients whose diagnosis may include:
- Depression
- Bipolar disorder
- Psychosis
- Anxiety disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ADHD
- Behavior disorders
Treatment tailored to each child’s needs
Each child’s treatment program is individualized, based on specific behavioral goals identified and agreed upon by the family, child, and staff. The primary treatment goal is to improve the child’s total functioning, including his or her ability to:
- Relate constructively to others
- Manage emotional states
- Control impulses and behavior
- Engage in cooperative, harmonious relationships with family, peers, and others
- Succeed in school
Treatment combines a broad range of services including:
- Expert, multi-disciplinary evaluation
- Individual, group, and family therapy
- Recreational and behavioral therapy
- Social skills training
- Academic classroom instruction and collaboration with community school for successful re-entry
- Medication evaluation and management, as needed
Fostering positive relationships for positive results
The best way to eliminate negative behaviors is to increase positive behaviors. Our partial hospitalization program provides a nurturing, healing environment in which experienced professionals find and focus on the positive within each child. In addition, daily group therapy and social skills training cultivate each child’s ability to form rewarding relationships with others.
Extensive family involvement
We believe active family participation is the key to treatment success. That’s why families participate in planning treatment goals. Families also get support and help applying the hospital’s treatment program at home by regularly participating in family therapy, parent support groups, and parent training classes. Staff members communicate daily with each family and provide support for problems that arise. The goal is to continue at home the same therapeutic conditions that lead to the child’s highest possible functioning.
A nurturing professional team
The multidisciplinary team includes child and adolescent child and adolescent psychiatrists, social workers, registered nurses, recreational therapist, milieu therapists, and a specialized teacher. Team members meet regularly to discuss each child’s progress and refine treatment goals and after-care planning.
To make a referral or for more information call 1.800.KIDS DOC.