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Series: Mental health treatment

Understanding treatment, one guide at a time

Guides to the levels of mental health care, what each one involves, and how to pay for it. Sources are listed at the bottom of every guide.

Choosing care

Teletherapy vs. In-Person Mental Health Treatment: How to Choose

Video therapy can work about as well as in-person care for many outpatient needs, but format is the wrong first question. How to think about severity, safety, privacy, and insurance before choosing.

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Levels of care

The Levels of Mental Health Care, Explained

Treatment runs on a continuum from an hour of therapy a week to 24-hour hospital care. The map of all five levels — what each one involves, when it fits, and how clinicians and insurers decide.

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Choosing care

PHP vs. IOP: The Difference and How to Choose

PHP is a full treatment day, five days a week; IOP is a few structured sessions built around work or school. What a week in each looks like, who fits where, and what to ask before enrolling.

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Levels of care

Residential Mental Health Treatment, Explained

Residential care is not the hospital, and it is not for everyone. Who belongs there, what weeks in a program actually look like, how insurance authorizes it, and how to tell a good program from an expensive one.

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Not sure what level of care fits?

Our guided assessment walks through the questions a clinical intake would ask.

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