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Outpatient services are generally provided to consumers on an hourly schedule, on an individual, group, or family basis, and usually in a clinic or similar facility or in another location. Outpatient Services may include diagnosis and evaluation, screening and intake, counseling, psychotherapy, and behavior management. Included also, are substance abuse services that are provided generally in a concentrated manner over several consecutive weeks.

 

 

Medical Services include the provision of evaluation and treatment of psychiatric and medical nursing services by psychiatrist and nurses. Medication services include prescribing and dispensing medications and medication management. Medication only visits include only consumers who receive only medication monitoring on a periodic (monthly or quarterly) basis from a psychiatrist or nurse.

Individuals served by ICT have severe symptoms and impairments that are not effectively remedied by available treatments or, because of reasons related to their mental illnesses, resist or avoid involvement with mental health services. This may include individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses who also have co-occurring diagnoses of mental retardation and/or substance abuse. Intensive Community Treatment is provided by a self-contained, interdisciplinary team of at least five full-time equivalent clinical staff, a program assistant, and a psychiatrist that (1) assumes responsibility for directly providing needed treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to identified individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses; (2) minimally refers individuals to outside service providers; (3) provides services on a long-term care basis with continuity of caregivers over time; (4) delivers 75 percent or more of the services outside of the program's offices; and (5) emphasizes outreach, relationship building, and individualization of services.

 

Emergency Services are unscheduled and sometimes    scheduled crisis intervention, stabilization, and referral assistance provided over the telephone or face-to-face, if indicated, 24 hours per day and seven days per week, to people seeking such services for themselves or others. Services also may include walk-ins, home visits, and jail interventions. Emergency Services include preadmission screening or other activities that prevent admission to a mental health hospital or mental retardation training center or are associated with the judicial admission process.

 

 

The School Counseling and Intervention Program (SCIP) is a school-based treatment program that serves children and adolescents at risk of serious emotional disturbance in order to combine psychotherapeutic interventions with education and mental health treatment. Services include: evaluation, medication education and management, opportunities to learn and use daily living skills, enhance social and interpersonal skills, individual, group, and family counseling.