Craig Academy is licensed by the Pennsylvania State Department of Welfare - Western Region office of Mental Health and accredited by the Council of Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, Inc. as a partial psychiatric hospital program. As such, it provides intensive treatment services six hours per day during the school year (September through June) to children and adolescents ages 6 through 21, who suffer from severe emotional problems including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety problems, post-traumatic stress disorder and behavior problems such as attention deficit disorder, oppositional disorder and conduct disorder.

The goal of the partial hospital program is to help students get along better in work, school and in the community. Treatment in the program includes group, individual and family therapies. Techniques and skills that are part of therapies include:

• groups that deal with specialized problems such as grief and loss, managing anger and how to get along better with adults
• family interventions
• family nights and other family-centered events
• role-playing
• examples of new ways to handle problems
• practicing new skills
• learning how to spend free time in a safe and healthy way
• learning how to get along better in the community at school and at work.

Craig Academy employees cognitive behavioral therapy  (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). CBT teaches students and their families how to change many behaviors that have caused problems by examining feelings and thoughts that drive these behaviors. DBT teaches and improves skills to change behavioral, emotional and thinking patterns that may cause problems in living.