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Partial Hospitalization Program

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The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) offers a structured and supportive environment for children aged 10 to 14. This program is designed to replace the regular school day, ensuring that children receive the care they need while maintaining a routine like their peers. The average stay for families in our PHP is around two weeks, allowing for focused and intensive treatment. Our PHP operates five days a week, from Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., providing a consistent and therapeutic schedule for the children. 


Our Approach

Lurie Children’s PHP strives to create a safe, collaborative, therapeutic, and fun environment through developmentally appropriate curriculums to teach each child how to cope with their problems effectively. We utilize evidence-based approaches to individualize treatment and address the needs of each patient, including:

  • Unified Protocol (UP) for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in children and adolescents
  • Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Parent training
  • Collaboration with outside providers
  • Collaboration with teachers

We also require family involvement throughout treatment to provide each family with knowledge and practical strategies as they continue to support their child’s transition to their routine life through family sessions and the Multifamily Group Education Series.

What We Treat

The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) treats:

We may also provide treatment in other areas as clinically appropriate. Please contact us at 312.227.0337 to discuss your questions about whether our program is an appropriate fit for your child and family. At times, we may suggest a different treatment approach or program if we believe it would more effectively address your child's specific needs.

Our Specialists

The multidisciplinary team includes child and adolescent psychiatrists, social workers, registered nurses, recreational therapist, milieu therapists and a specialized teacher. Team members meet regularly to discuss each child’s progress and refine treatment goals.

Meet Our Team

How to Prepare

PHP program hours run from 9 a.m.–3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Families drop their child off at 9 a.m. each morning and participate in a brief morning check-in with a Milieu Therapist to review their child’s progress at home the previous evening. Families are required to pick up their child no later than 3 p.m. In addition, families are required to participate in weekly family sessions with their child’s primary clinician to address individualized treatment progress and goals.

Recreation Therapy (RT) is a group-based component of PHP that improves socialization, leisure functioning and community reintegration. Based on the specific needs of the patients, the following programs may be developed and implemented:

  • Arts and crafts
  • Team building
  • Leisure education
  • Yoga
  • Relaxation group/techniques
  • Problem solving (learning and use of coping skills/tools)
  • Dance and music activities
  • Wellness groups
  • Games and socialization activities

PHP is a Monday-Friday program (excluding scheduled holidays). Please do not plan your family outings and outpatient appointments on days when your child will attend. If you must miss a day for an important event, please inform staff beforehand. If your child misses two unplanned days, the team will evaluate their enrollment and consider discharge. If your child reports feeling ill before arrival in the morning, take their temperature. If it is at 100.5 or above, please call the Program office at 312.227.0840 to report an absence for that day.

Each child’s medicine regimen will be discussed with the parent, psychiatrist, and therapist. The nurse is available for additional assistance. Please do not alter your child’s medicine dosage unless the plan has been discussed with your child’s doctor in PHP and approved by the parent. We do not administer any over-the-counter medicines in PHP, nor any medication that the parent has not approved of administering to their child. Children who use inhalers for asthma should also plan to bring a pharmacy-labeled bottle or package for PHP during the child’s stay. The team will return medications kept during PHP at the end of the child’s stay.

PHP involves intensive family engagement, including family therapy sessions weekly with the therapist, multi-family group sessions, treatment programs, and daily check-ins with staff. Participation is essential and failure to attend required sessions may necessitate assessing for discharge. 

Transportation to PHP is not provided. 

Please click here for more location information. If you park your car at the Blackhawk-Halsted parking garage at Lurie Children’s, you qualify for a daily rate.

Contact Information & Location

The Partial Hospitalization Program is located at: 

Outpatient Services at 1440 N. Dayton
1440 N. Dayton, 2nd floor 
Chicago, IL 60642

To contact the Partial Hospitalization Program, please call 312.227.0337. 

The fax number for the program is 312.227.9772. 

Printable Parent/Patient Rating Forms

The following electronic forms are for patients currently enrolled in IOP. Only complete these forms if instructed by the IOP team. 

Click the below links to download and print the parent/patient rating forms: 

MyChart

MyChart gives you safe, secure online access to portions of your child's electronic medical record (EMR). MyChart also serves as a secure message center to communicate with your child’s healthcare providers and complete online questionnaires for enrolled programs. 

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Books for Children 

Anger & Impulse Control

  • What To Do When Your Temper Flares by Dawn Heubner (for children ages 8-12)

Anxiety, Worry & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  • The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jared Kant and Martin Franklin (teenagers)
  • What To Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck by Dawn Heubner (OCD) (for children ages 8-12)
  • What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder by Emily Ford and Michael Liebowitz (teenagers)
  • Guts by Raina Telgemeier (Anxiety) (3rd-8th grade)

Depression

  • Meh by Deborah Malcolm (depression) (children ages 6-10)
  • Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide by Quincy Levine and David Brent (teenagers)

Feelings, Self-esteem & Miscellaneous

  • Just As You Are: A Teen’s Guide to Self-Acceptance and Lasting Self-Esteem by Michelle Skeen, PsyD (teens)
  • Next to Nothing: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with an Eating Disorder by Carrie Arnold and B. Timothy Walsh (teenagers and young adults)

Books for Caregivers

  • Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers by Deborah Serani
  • Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids – How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting by Dr. Laura Markham
  • The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene
  • Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross W. Greene
  • If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents by Edna B. Foa and Linda Wasmer Andrews
  • Why Smart Kids Worry and What Parents Can do to Help by Allison Edwards, LPC
  • Start Here: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children and Teens Through Mental Health Challenges by Pier Bryden, MD and Peter Szatmari, MD
  • Proactive Parenting: Help your child conquer self-destructive behaviours and build self-esteem by Mandy Saligari
  • How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

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