Camp Courage: PHP and IOP program for Children and Adolescents ages 8-20 years old suffering from OCD and related disorders
Camp Courage: PHP and IOP program for Children and Adolescents ages 8-20 years old suffering from OCD and related disorders.
Thrive’s Child and Adolescent OCD programs are highly specialized intensive programs that give those suffering, their families, and support systems an immersive treatment experience. The purpose of the program is to provide patients and their support systems the tools and support necessary to create a path to long term recovery. This treatment model provides evidence-based care that has typically only been offered at distant academic centers. Thrive Wellness is now bringing this highly effective and much needed treatment choice to Northern Nevada with the goal of increasing long term treatment success for Obsessive Compulsive and related disorders and significantly impacting the quality of life for children, adolescents, and their families.
These intensive child and adolescent programs are a natural transition in OCD treatment for those who are trying to prevent the need for hospitalization, stepping down from a higher level of care, bridging the gap from residential or inpatient treatment for OCD as they are beginning the transition to longer term outpatient care. Our goal is to heal the psychological, educational, and relational destructive impact OCD and related disorders have on the patient and their family through:
- Several hours of supervised Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy throughout the day 5 days per week.
- Building family and individual skills and education through psychoeducation to block and combat any ongoing rituals or avoidance at home.
- Behavioral support that extends outside of the therapy office into the community for in-vivo ERP exposures with PhD and Masters level clinicians.
- Assessment and specialized treatment for physical and psychiatric comorbidities.
PHP Program Overview
30 hours over 5 days per week of partial hospitalization treatment including:
- A thorough psychosocial assessment and psychological testing to properly identify the unique features of the client’s OCD as well as any comorbid mental health issues
- 3.5 hours per day of individualized exposure therapy
- Ongoing psychiatric assessment and treatment by a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist with specialty training in OCD and related disorders
Therapeutic support including:
- Individual, family, and multifamily group ERP based therapy sessions as needed with the intent to provide families a deeper understanding of OCD and related rituals and to provide support with cessation of family involvement in rituals and avoidance.
- Developing exposure based behavioral tools to help overcome OCD avoidance and rituals that interfere with the client’s educational, relational, health, and other types of functioning
- Multiple hours of supported work each day on the client’s individualized exposure hierarchy in an ERP context
Multiple skill building sessions specific to three groups: the entire family, the caregivers, and the child/adolescent including:
- Sessions addressing specific individual family dynamics and barriers that interfere with caregiver’s guiding and monitoring the recovery process
- Providing personalized coping strategies to the child and adolescent as well as daily tools that will be necessary to navigate and tolerate the emotional discomfort inherent to the recovery process-short and long term through ERP and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and others (individual adjunct modality depends on comorbid psychiatric struggles).
- Experiential based exposure sessions with both the entire family, caregivers, child and/or adolescent
Child and Adolescent OCD- PHP Program Structure:
Our OCD- Child and Adolescent PHP program begins with a thorough family and individual orientation where patients and families learn about the components of treatment at Thrive and the specific providers on their treatment team. Each family/individual is assigned the following treatment team:
- Care Coordinator
- Psychotherapist trained in Exposure and Response Prevention
- Psychiatrist
- Internal Medicine Provider (if/as medical necessity indicates)
- Licensed Registered Dietitian (if/as medical necessity indicates)
- Occupational Therapist (if/as medical necessity indicates)
OCD and related disorders child and adolescent PHP provides 6 hours per day of treatment, 5 days per week and includes 3.5 hours per day of individualized exposure work. All therapeutic activities are led and supervised by a multidisciplinary staff of OCD specialists ranging from master’s level therapists to Medical Doctors.
Discharge planning and care coordination development begin on day one through the care coordination team and include offering families and individuals a step down plan for OCD child and adolescent IOP, then ongoing weekly therapeutic outpatient ERP based therapy support, psychiatric support, and when necessary, dietetics and medical support. Ongoing follow-up care post OCD child and adolescent PHP may be through Thrive Wellness’ integrated outpatient programs or a local treatment team of the family’s choice.
Both McLean Hospital in Boston and Rogers Behavioral Health Hospital offer an ERP and ACT based treatment model and demonstrate an extremely high rate of efficacy. Until now, children and adolescents in theNorthern Nevada area would have to travel out of state to access a facility that could provide this type of specialized program. Our goal is to create greater access to care for those who need these unique services. We aim to increase accessibility to child and adolescent OCD treatment with a family/caregiver intensive component. We are proud to be able to provide this unique program locally.
IOP Program Overview
9-15 hours over 3-5 days per week of treatment including:
- A thorough psychosocial assessment and psychological testing to properly identify the unique features of the client’s OCD as well as any comorbid mental health issues
- 1.5 hours per day of individualized exposure therapy
- Ongoing psychiatric assessment and treatment by a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist with specialty training in OCD and related disorders
Therapeutic support including:
- Individual and family ERP based therapy sessions as needed with the intent to provide families a deeper understanding of OCD and related rituals and to provide support with cessation of family involvement in rituals and avoidance
- Developing exposure based behavioral tools to help overcome OCD avoidance and rituals that interfere with the client’s educational, relational, health, and other types of functioning
- Multiple hours of supported work each day on the client’s individualized exposure hierarchy in an ERP context
Multiple skill building sessions specific to three groups: the entire family, the caregivers, and the child/adolescent including:
- Sessions for caregivers and families based on the ERP- a highly effective modality of treatment specifically for OCD and related disorders
- Providing personalized coping strategies for the entire family system based on the client’s specific OCD features and exposure hierarchy as well as daily tools that will be necessary to navigate the recovery process- short and long term
- Sessions addressing specific individual family dynamics and barriers that interfere with caregiver’s guiding and monitoring the recovery process
- Providing personalized coping strategies to the child and adolescent as well as daily tools that will be necessary to navigate and tolerate the emotional discomfort inherent to the recovery process-short and long term through ERP and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and others (individual adjunct modality depends on comorbid psychiatric struggles)
Child and Adolescent OCD- IOP Program Structure:
Our OCD- Child and Adolescent IOP program begins with a thorough family and individual orientation where patients and families learn about the components of treatment at Thrive and the specific providers on their treatment team. Each family/individual is assigned the following treatment team:
- Care Coordinator
- Psychotherapist trained in Exposure and Response Prevention
- Psychiatrist
- Internal Medicine Provider (if/as medical necessity indicates)
- Licensed Registered Dietitian (if/as medical necessity indicates)
- Occupational Therapist (if/as medical necessity indicates)
OCD and related disorders child and adolescent IOP provides 3 hours per day of treatment, 3-5 days per week including 1.5 hours of exposure therapy each day. All therapeutic activities are led and supervised by a multidisciplinary staff of OCD specialists ranging from master’s level therapists to Medical Doctors.
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