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Intensive Outpatient Program Schedule

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4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Check In Group

  • Check-in with each member
  • Review of weekend
  • Goal setting for upcoming week
  • Set challenge from hierarchy with specific coping plan

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Therapeutic Meal

 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Symptom Management Group

  • Understand purposes of ED behaviors and develop coping skills
  • Positive support plans
  • Stress management
  • Understand and cope with comorbid depression and anxiety

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4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
 DBT & Advanced Coping Skills Group

  • Identify purpose of emotions
  • Develop skills for emotion regulation & interpersonal effectiveness
  • Learn mindfulness-based coping strategies
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Therapeutic Meal

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Schema Therapy Group

  • Identify lifetraps
  • Explore how lifetraps develop and how they impact your life
  • Coping with lifetraps
  • CBT interventions to change lifetraps
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11:00 a.m. - Noon
Body Image Group

  • Assessment of current body image concerns
  • Interactive exercises and group support
  • Education about societal influences on body image
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Therapeutic Meal

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Process Group

  • Therapist-guided opportunity to talk about issues relevant to treatment
  • Safe place to express feelings
  • Receive support and feedback from peers

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Feedback

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4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Expressive Therapy Group

  • Expression through art, photo, writing and music therapy
  • Exercises for
    gaining self-awareness
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Therapeutic Meal

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Relationship Group

  • Examination of key relationships and their impact on ED
  • Assertiveness training
  • Communication skills-building
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11:00 a.m. – Noon
 Family Relations Group

  • Boundaries
  • Family communication
  • Support
  • Individuation
  • Roles and rules of family
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Therapeutic Meal

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Nutritional Group

  • Impact of ED on health
  • Mostly nutritional topics and activities
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9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Therapeutic Meal

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Process Group

  • Therapist-guided opportunity to talk about issues relevant to treatment
  • Safe place to express feelings
  • Receive support and feedback from peers
 

11:00 a.m. - Noon
Family Group

  • Opportunity for family members & significant others to learn about eating disorders
  • Chance to share experiences with other families facing similar challenges
 

If you suspect that you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, contact one of our eating disorder specialists for help.

  
 

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