Partial hospitalization: Are treatment effects maintained post‐discharge?

Abstract

Child partial hospitalization programs (CPHPs) provide specialized, intensive, interdisciplinary day treatment for children with significant social, emotional, and behavioral needs that warrant a higher level of care than outpatient therapy, but a less intensive care setting than admission to an inpatient unit. In many cases, partial hospitalization programs function as a step down from inpatient care to provide a gradual transition back into the home and school environments, where children's mental health challenges may have initially manifested, or as a means of averting a more restrictive form of care.