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New Options
Day Treatment Program
The New Options Day Treatment program intensively treats
adults with psychiatric illness whose symptoms are too severe to be managed
in outpatient therapy, yet do not require 24-hour supervised care.
This program serves as an alternative to
costly inpatient hospitalization. It is also a transitional step between
the hospital and outpatient treatment.
Patients are able to maintain their
employment and remain involved with their community and family during their
course of treatment. However, if needed, the program can assist the patient
with re-entry to family, workplace and community.
Treatment is provided in an environment
conducive to recovery and averages two to four weeks. The program is an intensive five-day-a-week regimen,
Monday through Friday. In some cases, individuals can arrange
to have treatment two or three days each week. Therapy
groups meet from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Treatment involves regular psychiatric
consultation and both group and individual therapy. Patients participate in group therapy
sessions and also meet individually with two therapists Phil Flanders,
PhD, and Anne Kresin, LSCSW.
Flanders encourages patients to look at patterns in their life, including how their thoughts and
feelings lead to difficulties, and how to learn to act instead of react in
their lives.
Kresin helps patients delve into their emotional history and
figure out why they feel the way they do and how to develop healthier
coping skills.
Staff members
spend considerable time working with patients to help them set goals. Staff
then support patients in reaching them after the program.
Treatment services include:
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Diagnostic services
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Individual therapy
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Group therapy
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Cognitive behavioral therapy
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Psycho education
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Anger management
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Relationship skills
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Assertion/coping skills
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Anxiety management
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ADL skills (activities of daily living)
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Communication skills
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Life skills
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Family education
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Family therapy
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Medication education and management
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Intensive outpatient
Treatment teams include:
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Psychiatrists
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Psychologists
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Clinical social workers
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Psychiatric nurses
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Recreational therapists
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Writing therapists
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Consulting physicians
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Outpatient therapist
Special tracks are being developed in pain management, geriatric depression,
dual diagnosis, obesity and longer-term personality disorders.
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