Residential Treatment For Eating Disorders at Walden Behavioral Care

Residential Treatment For Eating Disorders: Care In A Home-Like Environment.

Walden Place, Walden Behavioral Care's residential eating disorder program, provides recovering residents with a home-like setting simulating day-to-day living where they can practice the coping skills they learn in therapy sessions, while they are in a structured, supervised program.

Residential treatment for eating disorders, as offered at Walden Place, begins to integrate the patient back into the community. Yet Walden Place is adjacent to our Alcott Center if a more intensive level of care is needed.

Walden Place offers longer-term treatment for patients who do not have acute medical or psychiatric symptoms, but who need more treatment before they are ready to advance to Walden's partial hospitalization program or return to their home community.

The focus of residential treatment for eating disorders is on providing a supportive environment where personal accountability and responsibility are emphasized. Residents of Walden Place learn and practice newly acquired skills by experiencing supervised activities outside of Walden Place. Living in a setting that simulates life beyond their residential treatment for eating disorders, patients can better identify what triggers their disordered behavior and learn to cope with the challenges they will find most difficult to overcome when they return to life outside of Walden Place.

Who Residential Treatment For Eating Disorders Serves

Residential treatment is for patients 17 or older who have achieved medical stabilization, but who need intensive, 24-hour residential treatment for eating disorders. Patients are ready to practice cooking, grocery shopping and other tasks leading to greater independence.

Program Hours: 24-hour supervision is provided; Walden's residential treatment for eating disorders begins at 6:15 a.m. and ends at 11 p.m.

Goals of Residential Treatment For Eating Disorders

• Develop healthy eating patterns in a non-institutional setting
• Gain insight into triggers that cause disordered behavior and the function of eating
• Develop skills for dealing with challenges
• Develop an individual recovery plan (life without an eating disorder)
• Advance to partial hospitalization or independent living
• Develop a plan to prevent relapses

Duration: Patients typically participate in residential treatment for eating disorders for four to 12 weeks.

What Residential Treatment For Eating Disorders Includes

Residential treatment for eating disorders includes case management, evaluation and management of medication, nutrition counseling, and individual, family and group therapy. Residents of Walden Place are supervised throughout the day. Case managers conduct individual and family therapy, and establish and coordinate care with an outpatient team. Nutrition counseling focuses on education, individualized meal plans, food diversity and a system that encourages increasing flexibility over food choices, preparation and estimating amounts.

A Typical Day At Walden Place:

Are You Researching Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Treatment Programs To Help Someone With An Eating Disorder?

If you suspect you or someone you know has an eating disorder, contact us at Walden Behavioral Care at 781-647-6700 or Info@waldenbehavioralcare.com.

Besides our Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorder Program, Walden offers inpatient, residential, and partial hospitalization programs, providing discrete, highly specialized treatment for patients 13 and older with anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder and other eating disorders.