Ohio State’s Harding Hospital Offers New Mental-Health Option To Teens

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Families trying to help their teens manage symptoms of mental illness often struggle to find the right-size treatment option. Hospitalization is more than their children need; an hour of weekly counseling, not nearly enough. Growing demand for an intermediate level of care prompted Harding Hospital at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center to create – and, recently, to expand – the Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, said program manager Myles Stickle. T he effort that started last year offers three hours of intensive therapy, usually in a group, three days a week for patients 13 . . .