History of the Counseling Profession Practice Test

Day treatment is an intermediate level of care known as partial hospitalization. This category was expanded in 1975 to explicitly include structured, non-residential programs that provide substantial daytime treatment. Programs in this category typically run several hours per day, most days of the week, with a coordinated team approach (therapy, medication management, skill-building, and crisis planning) but without overnight admission. That makes day treatment a fit for partial hospitalization, distinguishing it from emergency services (crisis intervention), outpatient services (less intensive and often not daytime-structured), and short-term inpatient services (overnight or longer hospitalization).