Partial Hospitalization Servives (PHP)

Partial Hospitalization Services (PHP) serves clients who require medical, psychiatric, and substance use disorder services in an integrated, multi-disciplinary setting that provides intensive daily structure and support.

PHP is designed to serve clients who need a safe and structured environment and all-day monitoring by clinical and nursing staff to achieve treatment progress and demonstrate recovery skills, achieve stabilization both medically and psychiatrically, and build emotional management skills. Clients are encouraged to demonstrate healthy coping skills and boundaries for managing emotions, psychiatric needs, legal problems, medical needs, relationships with peers, triggers, cravings, and lingering symptoms of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome. Clients can attend virtually, in person from home, and/or while living in Supportive Housing at Stella Maris or within the community.  

The PHP chemical dependency treatment services will encompass: five (5) hours of psycho-educational groups per day, five (5) days per week and individual counseling with the client’s Primary Counselor, as needed.  The total hours of direct service will be a minimum of twelve (20) per week.  Individual and group counseling will employ a dialectical and cognitive-behavioral therapy model.  Educational groups will cover a broad range of topics related to recovery: Substance Use Disorders, anger management, communication skills, assertiveness skills, depression, anxiety, and trauma.  All of Stella Maris’s treatment interventions are based upon an integrated service delivery model and current evidence-based practices.  

  TARGET POPULATION

• Adult, all-gender, 18 years of age or older.   

• Current DSM5 substance withdrawal diagnosis and/or meeting diagnostic criteria for diagnosis (alcohol, opioids, sedatives/hypnotics/anxiolytics).   

• Medical conditions that do not require hospitalization and are being managed appropriately with medication and/or treatment under the care of a medical professional.     

• Clients with severe psychiatric disorders must be stabilized and not currently  experiencing audio or visual hallucinations, prior to consideration for admission.      

• Significant treatment needs in emotional, behavioral, and cognitive conditions or a  significant history of trauma. 

• If you have questions about this important step in the Stella Maris addiction treatment program, please call us at (216) 781-0550 or complete our confidential online intake form.     

INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) serves clients who require regular, structured support in a therapeutic group setting several times a week, but who can manage their lives daily, without constant monitoring.  

IOP is a program designed to serve clients who need the therapeutic contact and intervention to achieve treatment progress and demonstrate recovery skills, active case management and coordination for medical and psychiatric conditions, and intervention and monitoring to build emotional management skills.  IOP is the program that clients will spend the most time in and have the opportunity to demonstrate significant progress in the tasks of daily living, the recovery process, the process of attaining a sober support network, the process of repairing relationships, and education in the effects that Substance Use Disorders have on everyday life.  

The IOP chemical dependency treatment services will encompass: three (3) hours of psycho-educational groups per day, five (5) days per week for five (5) weeks before stepping down to four (4) days a week for four (4) weeks, and individual counseling with the client’s Primary Counselor, as needed.  The total hours of direct service will be a minimum of fifteen (15) to twelve (12) hours per week.  Individual and group counseling will employ a cognitive-behavioral therapy model.  Educational groups will cover a broad range of topics related to recovery: Substance Use Disorders, anger management, communication skills, assertiveness skills, depression, anxiety, and trauma.  All of Stella Maris’s treatment interventions are based upon an integrated service delivery model and current evidence-based practices.   

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Non-Intensive/Recovery Management Program

Non-Intensive Outpatient Services or Recovery Management serves clients who require minimal, structured support in a therapeutic group setting one to two times per week, and who have achieved some recovery and daily living skills.

Recovery Management is where clients work on refining skills learned and progress achieved in the tasks of daily living, the recovery process, attaining a sober support network, repairing relationships, and education surrounding the effect that Substance Use Disorders have on everyday life.    

The Recovery Management Program consists of two (2) hours of therapeutic, psycho-educational groups two (2) times per week for three (3) weeks before stepping down to once (1) a week for four (4) weeks, with one (1) hour of individual counseling every 21 days, or more often if needed, with the Primary Counselor.     

TARGET POPULATION

• Adult, all-gender, 18 years of age or older with current DSM5 Substance Use Disorder diagnosis.   

• Medical conditions that do not require hospitalization and are being managed appropriately with medication and/or treatment under the care of a medical professional.     

• Clients with severe psychiatric disorders must be stabilized and not currently experiencing audio or visual hallucinations, prior to consideration for admission.