Adult Outpatient Psychiatric Services – New Haven

Adult Outpatient Psychiatric Services – New Haven in New Haven, Connecticut, provides treatment services for patients with mental health issues, co-occurring disorders and substance use disorders. Their adult intensive outpatient program may be used to treat adult patients who have reached a certain level of stability but still require more intensive care than standard outpatient therapy or who want to avoid being admitted to the hospital.

Treatment is available for co-occurring disorders, personality disorders, family or interpersonal conflicts, mood disorders, anxiety disorders and chronic suicidal ideation. Referrals can come from outpatient mental health providers as well as a hospital stay.

Participants in their program attend treatment three to four times a week for four hours a day. Treatment has three primary tracks. Individuals with general mood or anxiety disorders are eligible for their general adult track. For patients with dual diagnoses of substance abuse and mental health disorders there is a dual diagnosis program. Patients with severe personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder are the main target audience for their dialectical behavioral track. To help patients safely manage their psychiatric or co-occurring disorders, they provide crisis intervention and case management services.

Cognitive behavioral groups are offered, with an emphasis on relapse prevention and the ongoing improvement of coping and problem solving techniques. They offer group therapy that focuses on interpersonal issues that are known to exacerbate co-occurring disorders or persistent psychiatric issues. In order to help patients become more committed to altering problematic behaviors they provide psychoeducational groups.

They can also provide medication assisted treatment if needed. They provide medication consultation to community psychiatrists and other physicians prescribing pharmacologic treatments.

To establish transition plans that support patients optimal functioning and to facilitate an integrated approach, they provide discharge planning. Staff collaborate with the patients, their families and community agencies to create a suitable plan for ongoing support.