Partial Hospitalization & Intensive Outpatient Programs

Remaining at home with family and community is often the best and most appropriate treatment situation for children and adolescents who are experiencing difficult emotional and psychiatric issues. The Magnolia Achievement Partial Hospital and Intensive Outpatient Program provides an alternative to 24-hour inpatient hospitalization for children and adolescents ages 5-17. Our program allows the patient to receive the intensive psychiatric services during the day and put those skills and treatment gains into practice at home.

The Magnolia Achievement Program is a comprehensive regimen of daily therapeutic activities and education designed around each individual’s needs. The program is supervised and facilitated by a child & adolescent psychiatrist and complete clinical team.

Partial Hospitalization is a full day of services, and Intensive Outpatient consists of a reduced schedule.

Our Treatment Approach

Our multidisciplinary team ensures that an individualized treatment approach is developed for each patient, focusing on individual strengths and problem areas. Patients participate in groups that teach a variety of skills, including cognitive and behavioral techniques. They receive training for alternative coping techniques, socializing and handling peer pressure, solving problems, communicating and asserting needs effectively, and preventing relapse.

Treatment is provided in an atmosphere that sets specific expectations while promoting and rewarding the healthier aspects of behavior and stimulating personal growth. With parental consent, a collaborative approach is taken with the patient’s referral source and school to help facilitate a smooth transition at discharge. Family participation in treatment is actively encouraged since strengthening family relationships and family structure are integral to treatment.

Our Treatment Team

Patients are supervised clinically by a child & adolescent psychiatrist along with an experienced clinical team of nurses, social workers, therapists, special education teachers and mental health technicians.

Who Can Benefit From Partial & Intensive Outpatient Services?

Individuals with the following conditions and diagnoses:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Bipolar disorder
• Oppositional defiant disorder
• Psychosis and severe ADHD

The individual may also have one or more of the following:

• School failure or truancy
• Psychiatric issues
• Substance abuse
• Conduct disorder
• Eating disorders
• Disruptive behaviors
• Developmental problems
• Hyperactivity
• Difficulty relating to authority figures
• Social or family withdrawal

As long as the patient can remain safe outside of an inpatient setting, he or she may be an appropriate candidate.

Key Program Elements

Partial Hospitalization provides 7.5 hours of therapy, counseling, school, group sessions and therapeutic activities every day. The Intensive Outpatient Program will provide a reduced schedule and may serve as a step-down program for Partial Hospitalization.

The following components are provided in each program:

• Individual medication management
• Group therapy
• Multi-family therapy
• Family therapy
• Substance abuse track, including 12-Step groups with an LCDC
• Academic program provided on-site by The University Charter School
• Social skills training
• Community reintegration
• Aftercare group
• Transportation available within a 5-20 mile radius

Licensures & Accreditations

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
School Program approved by the Texas Education Agency

For more information or to make a referral, please call (800) 843-6257 or (512) 464-0200, or fax (512) 464-0439.