Center for Psycholotical Health Care

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PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

(Child, Adolescent and Adult Care)

Diagnostic interviews
Psychological testing (forensic included)

Mental status testing

Intelligence testing

Educational testing

Perceptual-motor testing

Personality testing

Career-vocational testing

Individual, family, marital and group psychotherapy

Disorders treated include:

Attention deficit hyperactivity

Disruptive behavior disturbances

Mood disturbances

Anxiety disturbances

Sexual abuse disturbances

Substance abuse disturbances

Other addictive disturbances

CPHC MENTAL HEALTH REHABILITATION PROGRAM

CPHC's Mental Health Rehabilitation program provides services to children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems. These services must be medically necessary and can reasonably be expected to restore the individual to his/her best possible level of functioning. Our program is characterized by acceptance, respect for differences and personal choices. CPHC is committed to policies that provide services to a diverse clientele. Our Mental Health Rehabilitation team is dedicated to providing quality services.

REHABILITATION SERVICES

Assessments
Individual Intervention
Parent/Family Intervention
Parent/Family Intervention Intensive
Group Counseling
Medication Management
Service Planning
Community Support
Psychosocial Skills Training Group

RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES: Manhood Training Village

Our Philosophy

CPHC’s philosophy and goals are also embodied in the employment of caregivers who deliver multiple therapeutic modalities based on a Psycho-Social, Psycho-Education, Behavior Modification, Cognitive and Psychodynamic theories.

Our staff, volunteers and interns provide a structured, value-based, rule-governed, safe environment in which the youth we serve live. A Priority for treatment is for the youth to feel safe in the living environment.

Staffs take time to demonstrate that the home is safe and that they can be trusted as caregivers. To feel safe youth must also have constraints and limits put on any out of control, high risk or harmful behavior.

Members of the staff comprise a surrogate parental system, and are trained in behavior modification methods such as proper discipline, using consequences, time-out, level and point systems, etc. They manage the home environment through a regimented system of adaptive values inculcation aimed at developing character for successful manhood.

These treatment methods are based on the philosophy that youth need controls on behaviors to feel safe. Behavior modification techniques include rewards for positive and acceptable behavior. Consequences are used instead of aversive techniques.

Programs Descriptions

The residential program provides an array of therapeutic, socialization, recreational, and educational support services to adolescent residents classified as controlled and/or moderate with respect to intensity of severity of emotional and behavioral problems.

Therapeutic Services: Individual therapy, Group therapy, and Family therapy.

Rites of passage: Resident progress through stages of development attached to the mastery of specific behavioral tasks associated with emotional maturity.

Daily life skills training: Values clarification, empathy, anger management, school adaptation, sex education/awareness, age-relevant hygiene and grooming, conflict resolution with emphasis on alternative to violence, character education.

Educational Support Services: Tutored library study, visits to museums, planetarium, historical sites and monuments.

Guest speaker series: Related to issues of adolescent development and/or attendance at community educational events.

Recreational Services: Promoting wholesome and constructive outlets for adolescent libido, and lifelong leisure pursuits including wilderness experiences; drilling/steps; structured athletic engagement; and community and holiday festival events.

ADOLESCENT SEXUAL OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM

We see sexual offending as a treatable problem in adolescence. Treatable implies helping the offender learn ways of minimizing the risk of reoffending. Treatable does not imply curable.

We believe that offenders must take responsibility for their sexual behavior without minimizing, externalizing, or projecting blame onto others. Manipulation and denial are major behavioral overlays of the offense and are prognostic determinants of treatment success.

We believe that dysfunctional family patterns supporting the development of aberrant sexual expression, such as social isolation, poor communication, marital distress, role boundary blurring, member scapegoating, patriarchal or matriarchal entitlements or powerless/dependency, substance abuse and so forth, must be addressed and changed to increase the chances of successfully reintegrating the offending family member back into the family.

We believe that victims are never, under any circumstances, responsible for their victimization.

We believe the confidentiality that generally characterizes the client-therapist relationship must be limited. Offenders are asked to surrender their right to have total confidentiality upon admission to treatment. Openness with significant others about ones offense(s) and behavioral inadequacies is important to learning the tools necessary to not reoffend once leaving the program.

We believe that confrontation is a necessary dimension of the therapy. The issue is to help the offender come to terms with his behavior, to look at and own responsibility for the worst in himself. It cannot be done without extensive, ongoing confrontation. However, for the offender to accept confrontation as part of our caring for his pain and as disruptive to obstacles to his growth and change, confrontation is done in such a way so as to not destroy rapport with the client and precipitate distance and hostility.