Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization
Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization at UVM Health
Psychiatric partial hospitalization offers hospital-level treatment for serious mental illnesses while also providing the comfort of returning home each evening.
Some patients come to our program for continued treatment after being hospitalized for mental illness. Others require intensive treatment only available in the hospital, but wish to avoid overnight stays. Whatever your situation, we offer advanced mental health care in a supportive, compassionate environment.
Why Choose UVM Health?
As one of the leading mental health services providers in the region, we offer:
- Compassionate, comprehensive outpatient psychiatric treatment: Our psychiatric partial hospitalization program allows you to receive all necessary treatment services in one place. Our skilled staff meets you where you are in your health care journey, offering thorough care without judgment.
- Flexibility: Psychiatric partial hospitalization provides hospital-level treatment without an overnight hospital stay. You leave each evening to be with your family, go to work or attend school.
- Team approach care: Numerous professionals work together to address your mental and physical needs. Your team may include psychiatrists, social workers and mental health counselors.
- Effective therapies: Our psychiatrists and other mental health providers hold extensive training in advanced, proven therapies. As part of a health system anchored by an academic medical center, our clinicians are active researchers, many of whom train the next generation of experts.
Conditions We Treat with Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization
Mental illnesses are conditions that affect your mood, emotions and behavior, and can make it difficult to participate in everyday activities. We care for people with conditions such as:
- Adjustment disorders
- Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Self-harming behaviors
What to Expect During a Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization
The first step of a partial hospitalization is to complete psychological and medical exams that help us understand your condition. Your care team recommends a plan to stabilize your symptoms and empower you with tools and skills for improved mental health.
You will participate in structured activities for five to six hours each day and return home at night. Your individualized treatment plan may include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): You can’t control difficult circumstances, but you can manage your response to them. In group settings we teach you coping skills to help you harness and redirect powerful emotions. You learn how to change unhealthy and destructive patterns of behavior.
- Psychotherapy: Talking with a trained counselor can help you reframe your experiences and take charge of your feelings. Through individual or group psychotherapy, you can learn essential skills such as managing your condition, building relationships and better tolerating difficult emotions.
- Case Management: We help you access community resources that can support you after treatment.
- Medication: Your psychiatrist may recommend medicine in combination with other therapies. Drugs for mental illness include antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.
- Mindfulness: This practice helps you be present in the moment so you can acknowledge feelings without letting them take control. Meditation promotes mindfulness.
Most patients participate in our program for two to three weeks. We work with you, your family and your primary mental health provider on a plan for continued care after you complete our program. Your team may recommend that you continue treatment in intensive outpatient psychiatry before returning to treatment with your primary mental health provider.
Advancing Medicine & Quality of Care
Better care, advanced procedures and cutting-edge treatments for you and your loved ones.
Improving the quality of your care now and into the future by training the next generation of health care professionals.
Immediate access to new treatments before they are widely available.
Awards & Certifications
Joint Commission Accreditation
Our mental health care program is accredited by The Joint Commission. We hold the Behavioral Health Joint Commission Accreditation — the highest level of accreditation a psychiatric program can obtain.
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1 South Prospect Street
St. Joseph, Level 6
Burlington, VT 05401-5505
