Handbook of Evidence-Based Day Treatment Programs for Children and Adolescents

Jarrod M. Leffler, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Children's Hospital of Richmond, and the Virginia Treatment Center for Children. He provides oversight of outpatient, inpatient, and pediatric psychology programming and provides clinical service and supervision in these settings. Before joining VCU Dr. Leffler was an Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic where he was the co-director of the pediatric mood clinic and inpatient psychiatry consulting psychology. He developed and directed the Child and Adolescent Integrated Mood Program (CAIMP), a two-week family-based PHP for youth with mood disorders, and the Pediatric Transition Program (PTP) a DBT focused IOP . Dr. Leffler began developing day treatment programs in 2000, and since that time has developed PHPs and IOPs for youth ages 5-18. He provides clinical supervision to psychology graduate students, interns and fellows as well as psychiatry residents and fellows and staff members. Dr. Leffler has published clinical research on PHP, IOP, and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization models of care; treatment models for youth and caregivers, including the Multifamily Psychoeducation Psychotherapy (MF-PEP), CAIMP, and individual-based treatment for youth with mood disorders. He has also published research on training staff on implementing EBTs. Dr. Leffler has served two terms as the President of the American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. He co-founded and co-chairs the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Service (AIRS) Special Interest Group of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association. Elisabeth A. Frazier, Ph.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an Attending Psychologist at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital. She has provided direct clinical care and supervision of psychology and psychiatry trainees across various levels of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and juvenile detention settings. Dr. Frazier currently works in the Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program at Bradley Hospital, a family-based, short-term, intensive program treating adolescents with a wide range of psychiatric presenting problems. She is a lead psychologist in Bradley REACH, an innovative fully virtual partial hospitalization program (PHP) through Bradley Hospital, which brings PHP level of care to youth and families across multiple states in the United States. Dr. Frazier has published clinical research including adaptation and implementation of empirically based treatment in the inpatient psychiatry setting, clinical outcomes in adolescent PHP treatment, and intervention research in teens with mood, disruptive behavior, and substance use disorders in intensive outpatient and community outpatient settings. She has also served as the Practice Committee Co-Chair in the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Service (AIRS) Special Interest Group of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of the American Psychological Association.

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Day Treatment Programs.- Chapter 2. The History and Purpose of Day Treatment Programs .- Chapter 3. Program Development and Administration in Day Treatment Settings.- Chapter 4. Implementation and Training.- Chapter 5. Assessment and Evaluation of Outcomes in Youth Day Treatment Programs.- Chapter 6. Perspectives on General Partial Hospital Programs for Children.- Chapter 7. Child and Adolescent Integrated Mood Program.- Chapter 8. The UCLA Achievement, Behavior, Cognition (ABC) program.- Chapter 9. Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Partial Hospitalization Program  .- Chapter 10. Dialectical Behavior Therapy.- Chapter 11. Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders.- Chapter 12. Family-Based Interdisciplinary Care for Children & Families with Comorbid Medical & Psychiatric Conditions: The Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program.- Chapter 13. Development and Implementation of an Intensive Outpatient Program for Suicidal Youth.- Chapter 14. Seattle Children's Hospital's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program.- Chapter 15. Evidenced Based Programming for LGBTQ Young Adults: An Intensive Outpatient Model.- Chapter 16. Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Outpatient Programs.- Chapter 17. Co-occurring Disorders.- Chapter 18. Pediatric Pain Programs: a Day Treatment Model at Boston Children's Hospital.- Chapter 19. Transitioning to Adult Services: Young Adult Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs.- Chapter 20. Integrating Day Treatment in the School Setting.- Chapter 21. Wilderness Therapy.- Chapter 22. Family Engagement and Coaching in 5-Day Intensive Treatment Program for Youth with Anxiety Disorders and OCD.- Chapter 23. Telehealth Adaptations in Day Treatment Programs.- Chapter 24. Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization.- Chapter 25. The Youth Crisis Stabilization Unit: An Alternative Psychiatric Treatment Model .- Chapter 26. Strategies to Navigate Day-Treatment Services and Follow-up Plans: a  Guide for Families and Providers.