Program/Treatment Model

Hope Health System’s child and adolescent PRP program is goal directed, outcome focused, and time-limited interventions designed to reduce maladaptive behaviors and to restore and strengthen specific age appropriate skills so that the youth can function to their highest potential up to and including independence. PRP treatment is seen as a planned and integrated adjunct to outpatient mental health treatment, and the total plan of care or the youth. PRP includes a combination of psycho-education, emotional and behavioral awareness competency, and social skills training in groups or individually, at the agency site, or in the youth’s home or in the community.

The focus of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program treatment model will be directed toward the reduction of emotional or behavioral problems, and the restoration of age-appropriate skills, including:

• Facilitating the enhancement of an individual’s independent living and social skills, including the individual’s ability to make decisions about his or her life, while creating opportunities for choice regarding home, school or work, or community; and
• Promoting community resources to integrate the individual into the community.

Rehabilitative activities (in individual sessions, psycho-educational groups, and family groups, as appropriate) that will be incorporated in the PRP include:

• Self-care skills (i.e., hygiene, grooming, dietary planning, food preparation, age-appropriate involvement with self-administration of medication);
• Social skills (i.e., conflict resolution training, improved peer interactions, anger management, improved interactions with authority figures, assertiveness training, assessing risks in social environments);
• Independent living skills (i.e., maintaining personal living space, community awareness, mobility skills, monetary management, housekeeping, the importance of punctuality, task analyses, completion of chores, staying safe while in the community, education on age-appropriate meal preparation, doing laundry);
• Leisure and recreational activities (i.e., development of healthy leisure activities, use of leisure to develop teamwork and peer support behaviors, promotion of productive and rewarding use of time spent alone);
• Schedule planning (i.e., daily schedule planning, time management, development of daily routine, development of routine before going to bed at night to prepare for the next day);
• Cultural interests (i.e., exploration of activities that support the youth’s cultural interests by self-expression through artistic modalities);
• Age-appropriate techniques and resources to provide understanding of the role and effects of medication and symptom management; and
• Age-appropriate techniques and resources to understand basic healthy living, nutrition, exercise, sexuality, and health education/risk reduction.

All patients who are new to the Outpatient Center receive a diagnostic evaluation by a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, a Psychologist, or a Clinical Social Worker or Counselor, all of whom are licensed and trained to complete such evaluations. The face-to-face screening assesses the individual’s strengths, available resources and treatment needs.

A treatment plan is developed in collaboration with the individual and parent/and or guardian. ITP includes the individual’s diagnosis, presenting problems, needs, strengths, treatment expectations and responsibilities. Long term and short term goals in measurable terms and target dates for each goal. Criteria for successful completion of treatment and reasons for continuing treatment. A crisis response plan and baseline/progress on objectives.