Treatment Types
This structured outpatient treatment program runs about 5 days per week, 6 hours per day, and provides psychiatry, group therapy, and daily support while allowing patients to return home at night.
What is a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)?
This term describes a group of mental health conditions characterized by excessive fear, worry, or nervousness that interferes with daily functioning.
What are anxiety disorders?
This term refers to groups such as older adults, veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and individuals with disabilities who may require tailored services or face health disparities.
What are special populations?
This term refers to the brain’s ability to focus attention, learn, think, and remember—abilities that are impaired in cognitive disorders.
What is cognition?
This term refers to a chronic, lower-level form of depression that persists for years and can coexist with major depressive episodes.
What is dysthymia or persistent depressive disorder (PDD)?
This level of care typically runs 3–5 days per week for 2–3 hours per session and is ideal for clients who need structured skills training but do not require daily monitoring.
What is an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)?
This type of anxiety is a natural “fight-or-flight” response to stress or danger, while its pathological counterpart is excessive and persists without real threat.
What are normal vs. pathological anxiety?
This combination of conditions—common among military personnel—includes traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use disorder.
What is the Military Triad (TBI + PTSD + SUD)?
This acute cognitive condition involves sudden onset confusion, fluctuating attention, and disturbances in consciousness and cognition, often caused by illness, toxins, or withdrawal.
What is delirium?
This condition occurs when someone with persistent depressive disorder experiences a major depressive episode on top of their chronic symptoms.
What is double depression?
These two elements of group treatment refer to the “what” of a group (topics and issues) and the “how” (the way the group is conducted).
What are content and process?
This disorder involves chronic, excessive worry about everyday events such as health, work, or finances, often accompanied by restlessness, muscle tension, and sleep disturbances.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This core barrier makes it nearly impossible for homeless individuals with CODs to maintain sobriety routines, medication schedules, and appointment attendance.
What is lack of stable housing?
This class of disorders involves progressive decline in memory and thinking abilities severe enough to interfere with independence and daily functioning.
What is dementia or major neurocognitive disorder?
This type of depressive disorder can develop during prolonged substance use or during early abstinence—often improving after several weeks of sobriety.
What is a substance-induced mood disorder?
This type of group uses art, drama, role-play, music, or other expressive methods to help clients explore feelings, conflicts, and recovery issues.
What is a creative & expressive art therapy group?
This condition involves intense fear of being judged or scrutinized in social situations, often leading to avoidance of public speaking, meeting new people, or eating in public.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)?
This housing model provides long-term housing combined with supportive services and is considered the most successful approach for people with CODs experiencing homelessness.
What is supportive housing?
In this cognitive condition, individuals have significant difficulty forming new memories or recalling old ones, while other cognitive abilities may remain relatively intact.
What are amnestic disorders?
This widely used tool helps monitor a client’s mood over time and assess the presence and severity of depressive symptoms.
What is the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)?
These groups are offered to families and significant others to provide education, support, and space to discuss experiences while learning how to help a dual-disordered family member.
What are family groups?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent, unexpected panic attacks followed by at least 1 month of persistent concern about additional attacks or significant maladaptive behavior changes.
What is Panic Disorder?
In criminal justice settings, this mental disorder is the most common among individuals incarcerated in U.S. state prisons.
What is major depressive disorder (MDD)?
This medication class—used in Alzheimer’s dementia—works by increasing brain acetylcholine levels and slowing cognitive decline.
What are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors?
This outdated explanation claimed depression was caused by a simple shortage of neurotransmitters like serotonin or norepinephrine.
What is the chemical imbalance theory?