title: Pitfalls in adolescent day treatment programming.
abstract: The concept of the adolescent day treatment program offers many exciting treatment possibilities. This paper is an attempt to outline some of the potential problems or pitfalls which can occur in developing such a program. The author stresses the importance of having a program philosophy and indicates various aspects of the program which need careful planning and implementation.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D004467:Economics; D004493:Education; D006801:Humans; D009934:Organization and Administration; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D000078329:Workforce