Eating Disorders Treatment Options
 Our patients come to us requiring
different levels of support and supervised treatment to
aid with their individual path to recovery. We offer
programs that address each type of need from intensive,
24-hour care to Partial Hospitalization, transitional
living to intensive outpatient programs.
Residential care is offered for
females who need 24-hour support. This level of care
may also serve as an alternative to hospitalization for
some patients who are medically compromised as a result of
dangerously low body weight or frequent purging. Patients
receive staff supervision with medical monitoring 24 hours
a day, seven days both at the Programming Suite and the
Residential house. All meals and snacks are
monitored. Extra support is available for those who are
beginning refeeding, who purge frequently and who exercise
compulsively. As patients become more confident and
comfortable with eating, they are able to progress through
our phase system and practice increasing levels of
independence.
Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP)
Partial
Hospitalization is offered Monday
through Sunday at the
Programming treatment suite.
Depending on the patient's medical stability and
treatment needs, he or she will be place in either the
Extended PHP (10 hours a day, 9:30am-7:30pm) or the
Traditional PHP (6 hours a day, 9:30am-3:30pm) level of programming.
These levels of
care are offered to patients who are medically stable and
demonstrate the confidence and motivation to eat with
outside support, continue to meet weight and activity
goals, accurately report struggles, and structure time and
meals for the entire weekend.
Intensive
Outpatient Program (IOP)
In our IOP program, patients practice what they have learned in treatment
while living in our transition house or at home and talk about what
challenges they are facing. This program is offered Monday through Friday and includes two psychotherapy groups,
weight and behavioral monitoring and one meal group each day. When ready,
patients have the opportunity to practice food
preparation, grocery shopping and eat
supported meals at local restaurants with recovery
coaches. Groups offered at this level of care help with
plans to return to school or work and independent
living. Families are invited to attend a weekly
support group on Mondays from 4:30pm-5:30pm as well as the monthly Family Day
held on the second Saturday of every month.
The transition house is available for
adults who want to practice independent living.
Patients transition towards increasing independence.
Staff members meet with our residents seven days a week,
providing nutritional therapy, group therapy and meal
support. The transition house offers patients the
opportunity to practice being in charge of their own meals
while receiving daily support from the recovery coach and
regular meetings with the dietitian. A House Associate will
be living at the Transition House and will return to the
house by 11:00 p.m. six nights a week. She will be present
to monitor adherence to Transition House rules and assist
residents with accessing their outpatient treatment team in
times of crisis. The transitional living house is
available to patients in the Partial Hospitalization
Program (PHP), IOP programs or as an aftercare plan.
Every
Wednesday from 7:00pm-8:00pm
This group is open to past eating disorder patients
of McCallum Place as part of their continuing care at no
charge.
The group is designed to be extra support following
discharge from McCallum Place programming. This
group will be held on Wednesday evenings from
7:00pm-8:00pm at our Webster
Groves
location.
Every
Tuesday from 7:00pm-8:00pm
This
group is open to the community and is designed to help
those who feel they need extra support when dealing with
their disordered eating or eating disorder. This
group is not for McCallum Place patients, past or
present, but rather for people in the community who are
unable to attend a higher level of care. This
group will be held on Tuesday evenings from
7:00pm-8:00pm at our Webster Groves location.
There is a $10 charge for each session.
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