Wendy Paine O'Brien Center - Day Treatment

The Wendy Paine O'Brien Center, in Scottsdale, Ariz., offers an adolescent Day Treatment (Partial Hospitalization) program for teens who do not require inpatient care.

Advantages of the program can include:

• Preventing inpatient hospitalization
• Helping the patient's return to the community
• Reducing length of inpatient stay if inpatient treatment is necessary
• Providing a more intensive level of care if outpatient treatment is not meeting the patient's clinical needs

The patient returns home following a full day of treatment. Adolescents admitted to Wendy center generally are experiencing significant personal, interpersonal and family problems that disrupt their lives and the lives of family members, but are manageable in the less restrictive, Day Treatment setting.

Group Therapy
Patients discuss issues that brought them into treatment -- in a supportive, confidential setting -- and focus on problem solving, feelings, goals, process, leisure and social skills. They give and receive feedback from peers as well as clinical interpretation and direction from day treatment staff, which includes a master's level therapist.

Family Therapy
At least once during the patient's stay, a master's level clinician with specific skills and professional training and experience in family therapy meets with the patient's family. Day treatment provides patient and family the opportunity to address issues daily, since the patient returns home each evening.

Treatment Planning
During Day Treatment and after discharge, patients receive an individual treatment plan outlining key problems and goals.

Orientation

• Arrival
  Day treatment programming begins at 8:00 a.m. Upon arrival, check-in staff meets the patient, who may have his/her belongings or pockets searched for unacceptable items.
• Attire
  Patients are required to wear well-fitted clothes. No boots with steel toes, cut-off or ripped clothing, gang-related attire or clothing that is too tight or too loose and no tank tops, or anything else considered inappropriate by the treatment team.
• Smoking
  Smoking is not permitted for adolescent patients. If an adolescent brings cigarettes or lighters onto this campus, these will be confiscated and not returned.
• Attendance
  It is very important that the patient arrive on time and attend the program regularly. Parents are asked to notify the staff if a patient will not be attending that day.
• Meals
  The staff at times will take adolescents off campus to eat lunch. The usual cost is $3.50. If we eat in the campus cafeteria, lunch tickets also cost $3.50.

Program Schedule
The program is from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. There is flexibility at the end of the day for patients who may need a slightly earlier or later departure due to parent availability.