Description of ServicesDescription of Services
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A. Diagnostic Services
The assessment and determination of a client's physical, psychological, social, economic, educational, and vocational assets and disabilities for the purpose of designing a treatment plan. A diagnostic evaluation is the assessment and determination of a client's mental health and substance abuse diagnosis, utilizing DSM IV taxonomy.
B. Psychological Testing
The use of standardized test instruments to evaluate aspects of an individual's functioning, including aptitudes, educational achievements, cognitive processes, emotional conflicts, and type and degree of psychopathology.
C. Individual Counseling
Counseling services provided to an individual.
D. Couple/Partner Counseling
Counseling services provided to a couple or to partners whose primary complaint is the disruption of their relationship.
E. Family Counseling
The treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously in the same counseling session.
F. Group Counseling
A therapeutic meeting in which treatment is provided to a group of persons, most of whom are not related by blood, marriage, or legal guardianship.
G. Psychopharmacological Services
A client visit specifically for the purpose prescription, review, and monitoring of medication by a psychiatrist or clinical nurse specialist, or administration of prescribed medication by qualified personnel.
H. Case Consultation
A pre-planned meeting of at least one-half hour duration concerning a recipient who is either: (1) a client of the agency to whom it is the primary provider of therapeutic services, or (2) a client for whom evaluation and assessment have been requested by another agency or program involved in treatment or management of the recipient.
I. Case Conference
A pre-planned meeting of at least one-half hour duration with the client, the parent(s) or guardian(s) of the client when he or she is a minor, and other providers working with the client for the purpose of reviewing and modifying the treatment plan.
J. Case Management
The coordination, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of client services
K. Family Consultation
A pre-planned meeting of at least one-half hour duration with the parent(s) of a child who is being treated at the agency, when the parent(s) are not the identified client of the agency.
L. Crisis Intervention/Emergency Services
Immediate mental health and substance abuse evaluation, diagnosis, hospital pre-screening, treatment, and arrangements for further care and assistance as required, will be available twenty-four hours per day for current clients showing indications of incapacitating emotional stress. This is done through on-call professionals able to assess an individual or family crisis, provide information and referral, or link short-term interventions within the available continuum of services.
M. Home Visits
Crisis intervention, individual, couple/partner, group, or family counseling, and medication provided in the residence (excluding a medical institution) of a client when the client is unable to be served on the substance abuse clinic's premises.
N. After-Hours Telephone Service
The agency provides telephone coverage during the hours when it is closed. This service provides professional staff members to speak with clients over the telephone and, if indicated, to arrange for further care and assistance directly or through referral to another service.
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