McLean Hospital Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Outpatient Services Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders . While targeting specific disorders, the four services are coordinated to optimize the delivery of patient care at different stages of illness. Individuals enrolled as outpatients also may receive specialized and intensive care in the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program's partial hospital or residential units.
Many adults suffer from bipolar and psychotic disorders.
Persons with such disorders usually have major disturbances in mood, thinking or behavior. Psychotic disorders include schizophrenia and other severe disorders of thinking or behavior of unknown cause. The Program's comprehensive services begin with accurate diagnosis and rapid stabilization within its range of hospital, partial hospital and outpatient services. Evaluation of bipolar and psychotic disorders sometimes requires use of an emergency setting, in the form of crisis intervention. More commonly, evaluation comes at the time of referral or during the course of a patient's ongoing treatment, when he or she may experience an exacerbation of illness or incomplete response to treatment.