Behavioral Health Services
Mental Health Assessment: This is a formalized assessment conducted in order to determine the individual's problems, strengths, needs, abilities and preferences, to develop a social (extent of natural supports and community integration) and medical history, to determine functional level and degree of ability versus disability, and to develop or review collateral assessment information. The information gathered should support the determination of a differential diagnosis and assist in screening for/ruling-out potential co occurring disorders.
Diagnostic Assessments: A Psychiatric diagnostic interview examination includes a history; mental status exam; evaluation and assessment of physiological phenomena (including co-morbidity between behavioral and physical health care issues); psychiatric diagnostic evaluation (including assessing for co-occurring disorders and the development of a differential diagnosis);screening and/or assessment of any withdrawal symptoms for individuals with substance related diagnoses; assessment of the appropriateness of initiating or continuing services; and a disposition. These are completed by face-to-face evaluation of the individual and may include communication with family and other sources and the ordering and medical interpretation of laboratory or other medical diagnostic studies.
Crisis Intervention Services: Crisis Intervention Services are directed toward the support of an individual who is experiencing an abrupt and substantial change in behavior which is usually associated with a precipitating situation and which is in the direction of severe impairment of functioning or a marked increase in personal distress. Crisis Intervention is designed to prevent out of home placement or hospitalization. Often, a crisis exists at such time as an individual and/or his or her family/responsible caregiver(s) decide to seek help and/or the individual, family/responsible caregiver(s), or practitioner identifies the situation as a crisis. Crisis services are time-limited and present-focused in order to address the immediate crisis and develop appropriate links to alternate services. Services may involve the individual and his/her family/responsible caregiver(s) and/or significant other, as well as other service providers.
Psychiatric Management: The provision of specialized medical and/or psychiatric services that include, but are not limited to: a. Psychotherapeutic services with medical evaluation and management including evaluation and assessment of physiological phenomena (including co-morbidity between behavioral and physical health care issues); b. Assessment and monitoring of an individual's status in relation to treatment with medication, c. Assessment of the appropriateness of initiating or continuing services.
Nursing Assessment and Care: This service requires face-to-face contact with the youth/family/caregiver to monitor, evaluate, assess, and/or carry out a physician's orders regarding the psychological and/or physical problems and general wellness of the youth.
Medication Administration: Medication administration includes the act of introducing a drug (any chemical substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function) into the body of another person by any number of routes including, but not limited to the following: oral, nasal, inhalant, mintramuscular injection, intravenous, topical, suppository or intraocular. Medication administration requires a physician's order and must be administered by licensed or credentialed* medical personnel under the supervision of a physician, physician assistant or nurse practioner.
Community Support Team: These services consist of rehabilitative, environmental support and resources coordination considered essential to assist a adults and family in gaining access to necessary services and in creating environments that promote resiliency and support the emotional and functional growth and development of the individual served.
Intensive In-Home: Intensive In-Home is a time limited therapeutic family preservation intervention for individuals age 3-20 intended to diffuse the current crisis, evaluate its nature, and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence. Intensive In-Home directly addresses the recipient's mental health and/or substance-related diagnostic and clinical needs. Participants in this service have access to a variety of interventions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by staff that will maintain contact and intervene as one organizational unit. Intensive In-Home services are provided in various environments, such as homes, schools, detention centers and jails homeless shelters, street locations, etc. by QFI, Inc. staff.
The ultimate goal is to stabilize the living arrangement, promote reunification or prevent the utilization of out-of-home therapeutic resources.
Supported Employment: These services are provided to individuals with disabilities to assist them in obtaining and maintaining employment. Supported Employment services are provided as needed according to the consumers Plan of Care. These services are conducted in a variety of settings, particularly work sites in which persons without disabilities are employed.
Day Treatment: These services provides a therapeutic educational setting to include intensive interventions designed to reduce symptoms and improve functional skills to include functioning in a mainstream educational setting; maintaining residence with a family or community based non-institutional setting; and maintain appropriate role functioning in community settings.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation: These services is designed to help adults with psychiatric disabilities increase their functioning so that they can be successful and satisfied in the environments of their choice with the least amount of ongoing professional intervention. PSR focuses on skill and resource development related to life in the community and to increasing the participants ability to live as independently as possible, to manage their illness and their lives with as little professional intervention as possible, and to participate in community opportunities related to functional, social, educational, and vocational goals.
Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program: These services consist of structured individual and group addiction activities and services that are provided at an outpatient program designed to assist adult and adolescent consumers to begin recovery and learn skills for recovery maintenance. This program is offered 3 hours a day 3 days a week. This service includes structured program consisting of individual counseling and support; group counseling and support; family counseling, training or support; biochemical assays to identify recent drug use, strategies for relapse prevention to include community and social support systems in treatment; life skills; crisis contingency planning; disease management; and treatment support activities that have been adapted or specifically designed for persons with physical disabilities, or persons with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse/dependence or mental retardation/developmental disability and substance abuse/dependence..
Individual Outpatient Services: A therapeutic intervention or counseling service shown to be successful with identified youth populations, diagnoses and service needs, provided by a qualified clinician. Techniques employed involve the principles, methods and procedures of counseling that assist the youth in identifying and resolving personal, social, vocational, intrapersonal and interpersonal concerns. Services are directed toward achievement of specific goals defined by the youth and by the parent(s)/responsible caregiver(s) and specified in the Individualized
Resiliency Plan. These services address goals/issues such as promoting resiliency, and the restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of: 1) the illness/emotional disturbance and medication self-management knowledge and skills (e.g. symptom management, behavioral management, relapse prevention skills, knowledge of medications and side effects, and motivational/skill development in taking medication as prescribed); 2) problem solving and cognitive skills; 3) healthy coping mechanisms; 4) adaptive behaviors and skills; 5) interpersonal skills; and 6) knowledge regarding the emotional disturbance, substance related disorders and other relevant topics that assist in meeting the youth's needs.
Group Outpatient Services: A therapeutic intervention or counseling service shown to be successful with identified populations, diagnoses and service needs. Services are directed toward achievement of specific goals defined by the youth and by the parent(s)/responsible caregiver(s) and specified in the Individualized Resiliency Plan. Services may address goals/issues such as promoting resiliency, and the restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of: 1) cognitive skills; 2) healthy coping mechanisms; 3) adaptive behaviors and skills; 4) interpersonal skills, 5) identifying and resolving personal, social, intrapersonal and interpersonal concerns.
Family Outpatient Services: Family Counseling is acounseling service shown to be successful with identified family populations, diagnoses and service needs, provided by a licensed/credentialed therapist. Services are directed toward achievement of specific goals defined by the individual youth and by the parent(s)/responsible caregiver(s) and specified in the Individualized Resiliency Plan (Note: Although interventions may involve the family, the focus or primary beneficiary of intervention must always be the individual consumer). Family counseling provides systematic interactions between the identified individual consumer, staff and the individual's family members directed toward the restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of functioning of the identified consumer/family unit. This may include specific clinical interventions/activities to enhance family roles; relationships, communication and functioning that promote the resiliency of the individual/family unit. Specific goals/issues to be addressed though these services may include the restoration, development, enhancement or maintenance of: 1) cognitive processing skills; 2) healthy coping mechanisms; 3) adaptive behaviors and skills; 4) interpersonal skills; 5) family roles and relationships; 6) the family's understanding of the person's mental illness and substance-related disorders and methods of intervention.
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