Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Intensive Outpatient Care
The Intensive Outpatient Care program offers group psychotherapy, coping skills training, and medication consultation with a lesser degree of care management. The program is appropriate for individuals already working in individual therapy in the community, but are experiencing an increase in symptom severity such that standard outpatient treatment alone is not sufficient to make progress.
Conditions
Fletcher Allen's Intensive Outpatient Program treats patients with the following conditions:
- Depression
- Anxiety/panic disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Adjustment disorders
- Personality disorders
- Self-harming behaviors
Treatment
The primary purpose of this program is to assist with coping skill acquisition and coping skill usage in the patient's daily life. This program offers six hours of treatment per day and consists of:
- Individual care management
- Group psychotherapy
- Coping skills training
- Medication consultation
Treatment includes:
- A full psycho-social and medical evaluation and formulating initial treatment goals
- Individualized treatment planning
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Pharmacological management
- Mindfulness practice
- Anger management and emotion regulation
- Interpersonal effectiveness and assertiveness skills
- Distress tolerance skills
- Relapse prevention
- Care management and ongoing collaboration with outside providers
