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Partial hospitalization focuses on the overall treatment of the individual and is intended to avert or reduce in-patient hospitalization. The pioneer of partial hospital programs, Dr. Albert E. Moll, [1] believed that some patients would be unable to be away from their families or from work and that these programs would reduce the cost of long ...
A successful community-based alternative to institutionalization or inpatient hospitalization is partial hospitalization. Partial hospitalization programs are typically offered by hospitals, and they provide less than 24 hours per day treatment in which patients commute to the hospital or treatment center up to seven days a week and reside in ...
An intensive outpatient program (IOP), also known as an intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) program, is a structured non-residential psychological treatment program which addresses mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs) that do not require detoxification through a combination of group-based psychotherapy, individual psychotherapy, family counseling, educational groups, and ...
The hospital has used this open capacity for new programs such as specialty schools and outpatient resources. [6] Recent innovative programs include a new inpatient unit for LGBT individuals and people comfortable with LGBT individuals, and a partial hospital/residential program for uniformed service professionals (corrections, fire, first ...
New York City officials under several administrations have implemented programs involving the involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illnesses in the city. [29] Some of these policies have involved reinterpreting the standard of "harm to themselves or others" to include neglecting their own well-being or posing a harm to themselves ...
Outpatient commitment—also called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) or community treatment orders (CTO)—refers to a civil court procedure wherein a legal process orders an individual diagnosed with a severe mental disorder to adhere to an outpatient treatment plan designed to prevent further deterioration or recurrence that is harmful to themselves or others.
The Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.
Alberta Hospitalization Benefits describes health law for the province of Alberta, Canada. Chapter 3 of the Hospitals Act [1] is the Hospitalization Benefits Plan. Origins include the 1919 Municipal Hospitals Act, national Health Services Act of 1944, and the provincial Lloydminster Hospital Act of 1947. [2] [3] Amongst other things the law ...