Outpatient Mental Health Services
Outpatient Services (Ages birth to 21)
This program provides high quality, effective, and strength-based services in office or community settings for children, youth and families. Therapy services are goal-oriented and dedicated to assisting the family towards healing. Prevention and early intervention are also part of the services, which include a wide range of treatment interventions, several of them being evidence-based practices designed to meet specific family and community needs. These include Functional Family Therapy, The Incredible Years Parenting Group, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Teaching Pro-Social Skills, and the Skill-Streaming social skills curriculum. The menu of services for all children/youth served by the Outpatient program include comprehensive mental/behavioral health assessment, individual, group and/or family therapy, behavioral interventions, nutrition screening, psychiatric services, parent support/advocacy and crisis intervention.Functional Family Therapy (Ages 11 to 18 and their younger siblings)
This is a short-term (over a 3-month period), family-based prevention and intervention program for youth at risk of or dealing with delinquency, violence, substance use, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, or disruptive behavior disorder. The services are delivered in an office, school, home, juvenile court and/or community settings and include as many family members as appropriate. A major goal of Functional Family Therapy is to improve and strengthen family relationships while decreasing intense negativity and blame. Additionally, family members are helped in adopting positive problem-solving and communication skills, as well as effective parenting strategies. Based on a Blueprints for Violence Prevention best-practice model (www.fftinc.com), when applied according to model requirements, the program has shown success for over 30 years in a wide variety of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural contexts. Functional Family Therapy leads to reduction in criminal activity, violent and other high-risk behaviors, decrease in family hostility, improvement in family interactions and parenting competencies and ultimately keeps children and youth safely at home.The program’s high rate of effectiveness has been recognized by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Youth Violence which names it a model program for seriously delinquent adolescents.
5030 El Camino Avenue, Carmichael, CA 95608, (916) 609-5100, fax (916) 609-5160
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