Individual and Family Therapy

Outpatient behavioral health services include assessment, treatment (individual medical evaluation and management, including medication management, individual and group therapy, behavioral health counseling), family therapy, and psychological testing for recipients of all ages.

 

Community Support for Adults

Community Support services, which are psychoeducational and supportive in nature, are intended to meet the mental health or substance abuse needs of adults who have significant functional impairments that seriously interfere with or impede their roles or functioning in family, school, or community. The service is designed to:

• Increase skills to address the complex mental health and/or substance abuse needs of adults who have significant functional deficits in order to promote symptom reduction;
  
  
• Assist recipients in acquiring mental health/substance abuse recovery skills necessary to successfully address vocational, housing, and educational needs; and
  
  
• Assist recipients in gaining access to and coordinating necessary services to promote clinical stability and meet their mental health/substance abuse treatment, social, and other treatment support needs.

The rehabilitative service activities of Community Support consist of a variety of interventions that must directly relate to the recipient’s diagnostic and clinical needs.

 

Community Support for Children

Community Support services, which are psychoeducational and supportive in nature, are intended to meet the mental health and/or substance abuse needs of children and adolescents who have significant functional impairment that seriously interferes with or impedes their roles or functioning in family, school, or community. The service is designed to:

• Increase skills to address the complex mental health and/or substance abuse needs of children and adolescents who have significant functional deficits in order to promote symptom reduction and improve age-appropriate functioning in their daily environments, and
  
  
• Assist the child/youth and family in gaining access to and coordinating necessary services to promote clinical stability and support the emotional and functional growth and development of the child.

 

Diagnostic Assessments

A Diagnostic/Assessment is an intensive clinical and functional face to face evaluation of a recipient’s mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition that results in the issuance of a Diagnostic/Assessment report with a recommendation regarding whether the recipient meets target population criteria, and includes an order for Enhanced Benefit services that provides the basis for the development of an initial Person Centered Plan. For substance abuse-focused Diagnostic/Assessment, the designated Diagnostic Tool specified by DMH (e.g., SUDDS IV, ASI, SASSI) for specific substance abuse target populations (i.e., Work First, DWI, etc.) must be used. In addition, any elements included in this service definition that are not covered by the tool must be completed.

 

Community Support Team

Community Support Team (CST) services consist of mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports necessary to assist adults (age 18 and older) in achieving rehabilitative and recovery goals. This is an intensive community rehabilitation service that provides treatment and restorative interventions to: assist individuals to gain access to necessary services; reduce psychiatric and addiction symptoms; and develop optimal community living skills. Services offered by the CST shall be documented in a Person Centered Plan and must include: assistance and support for the individuals in crisis situations; service coordination; psycho-education and support for individuals and their families; individual restorative interventions for the development of interpersonal, community coping and independent living skills; development of symptom monitoring and management skills; monitoring medication; and self medication.
Individuals will experience decreased crisis episodes, and increased community tenure, time working, in school or with social contacts, and personal satisfaction and independence. Through supports based on the individuals’ needs, consumers will reside in independent or semi-independent living arrangements, and be engaged in the recovery process.

 

Assertive Community Treatment Team

The Assertive Community Treatment Team is a service provided by an interdisciplinary team that ensures service availability 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and is prepared to carry out a full range of treatment functions wherever and whenever needed. A service recipient is referred to the Assertive Community Treatment Team service when it has been determined that his/her needs are so pervasive and/or unpredictable that they cannot be met effectively by any other combination of available community services. Typically this service should be targeted to the ten percent (10%) of MH/DD/SA service recipients who have serious and persistent mental illness or co-occurring disorders, dual and triply diagnosed and the most complex and expensive treatment needs. The service objectives are addressed by activities designed to: promote symptom stability and appropriate use of medication; restore personal, community living and social skills; promote and maintain physical health; establish access to entitlements, housing, work and social opportunities; and promote and maintain the highest possible level of functioning in the community. ACT Teams should make every effort to meet critical standards contained in the most current edition of the National Program Standards for ACT Teams as established by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill or US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services.

 

Residential Level III Services for Children

Residential treatment provides a structured, therapeutic, and supervised environment to improve the level of functioning for recipients.  Residential Treatment Level III Service (Residential Treatment High) has a highly structured and supervised environment in a program setting only. Our residents maintain a daily routine of meals, chores and a variety of individual and group sessions.