The Integration of Psychotherapy and Residential Treatment in an Intensive Short-Term Treatment Program: Part III. Implementation as Therapy Begins

Abstract

SUMMARY This paper explores ways in which a high degree of integration of psychotherapy and residential treatment can be realized in clinical practice. Describing a model of intensive short-term residential treatment used in the Menninger Clinic Child and Adolescent Service between 1993 and 2001, it first examines the role of the primary clinician in relation to the residential team and then considers the ways in which integration of psychotherapy and residential treatment was implemented in the initial stage of the treatment process.