Case Study
Bridgeway’s Partial Care Program is a day program that provides psychiatric rehabilitation services in a free-standing, community-based setting. Partial Care offers clinical and support services that allow participants to work on personal, social, vocational, educational and wellness goals. The aim is to help participants to feel valued and valuable, live independently in their community and prevent the need for more acute psychiatric services.
BRIDGEWAY Rehabilitation Services
Although Bridgeway’s partial care program was considered successful by industry standards, it shared the same challenge as any other treatment option: participants needed to remain motivated to attend, and they needed to incorporate learnings into their everyday lives.
Studies confirm that therapeutic interventions are most effective when the participant has community support. However, even with highly innovative face-to-face protocols and methodologies, there are times when patients are without access to their treatment and support. Being alone at times is a normal part of life, but for someone in treatment, it is often accompanied by feelings of isolation. They may wake up in the middle of the night and start ruminating, trying to justify why it’s a good idea to skip their next meeting, or they may pine for old, familiar, unhealthy behaviors that only made their lives unmanageable in the first place. If they do show up to their program again, they have often regressed.
Recovery or rehabilitation programs that can serve participants day and night, whenever the patient needs support, in whatever way the patient needs it, are likely to be the most effective.
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TRANSFORMING THE PERCEPTION OF MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY SERVICES
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