Table 4.

Comparative overview of outpatient and inpatient therapy

Outpatient-based individual psychotherapy	Inpatient-based individual psychotherapy
Is usually the preferred treatment modality	More expensive and difficult as it is usually long term
It is easier to arrange an outpatient based mode of treatment	Difficult to arrange inpatient stay exclusively for therapy
Difficult to sustain sessions and patients may drop out of therapy	Adherence to therapy is better by virtue of patient being admitted in the hospital

The frequency of sessions and duration of treatment is dependent on multiple factors like the clinical presentation, availability of skilled therapist, patient’s preferences and financial considerations