Partial Hospitalization

Reconnecting With Daily Living

Walden Behavioral Care provides a full continuum of care for the eating disordered-patient. The multidisciplinary staff at Walden is committed to providing state of the art, evidenced-based treatment to best assess and treat patients struggling with eating disorders. Our treatment combines several psychological approaches – including cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies, interpersonal and family therapies, along with psychopharmacology and nutritional therapies.

The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) combines the independence of living in the day-to-day world with a highly structured and supportive environment of a daily hospital program. It is the beginning of reconnecting with life beyond treatment and is an important step toward recovery. Partial hospitalization is for patients who are medically and psychiatrically stable. It can be ideal for those who are progressing toward independent living and outpatient care, or those who have found that they need more structure and intensive treatment than outpatient care alone can provide.

Entering into treatment is a difficult and important decision in the recovery process. We believe that with encouragement and self-determination, patients can progress to outpatient treatment and full recovery.

Who We Treat: We treat adult women and men (18 years and older) who require program structure and support to control eating-disordered behavior.

Program Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday

Goals:

• Weight stabilization and restoration
• Return to independent living
• Interruption of eating disordered thoughts and behaviors
• Normalization of eating
• Skill acquisition to help patients cope with emotional dysregulation
• Skills to manage anxiety and impulsivity
• Psychoeducation re: nutrition and eating disorders
• Relapse prevention

Duration: Patients typically participate in the program for three to four weeks.

Treatment

Walden’s therapeutic approach incorporates Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Expressive Therapy, and Nutritional Therapy in an integrative manner that allows us to treat not only the eating disorder, but the other co-morbid psychiatric and physical diagnoses commonly associated with eating disorders. Because Walden offers a full continuum of care, we are able to provide an environment that fosters change and promotes more permanent positive results.

The focus of treatment is for patients to gain awareness of the triggers and functions of their eating disordered-behavior, and to learn new, effective methods and coping strategies. Patients are encouraged to practice these skills during off-treatment hours, thereby gaining understanding of their emotions while learning to deal with these challenges once they leave treatment.

Patients learn and develop new skill sets to manage eating behaviors and the behavioral and emotional dysregulation that often accompany both the illness and its recovery. A treatment goal is to help our patients’ reintegration into an outpatient setting; therefore, relapse prevention is an important component of treatment at Walden Behavioral Care.

Treatment includes group therapy, case management, psychopharmacology, nutritional counseling, as well as individual, and group therapy. Staff supervises two therapeutic meals daily. Case managers conduct individual and family therapy, and also help establish and coordinate care with the outpatient team.

Program Schedule: Morning

Program Structure:

Patients attend five days of PHP treatment. During the first week, the PHP clinical team at Walden will work with patients to establish a personalized treatment plan to address each person’s needs and goals. Each patient will have weekly meetings with their Walden therapist who will also help establish structure and a treatment schedule.

For More Information

Call 781-647-6727 if you have any questions or to schedule an intake.