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1. Mental health treatment
Facility which provides services including therapy or psychotropic medication to treat a person’s mental health issue, reduce symptoms, and improve behavioral functioning and outcomes.
2. Substance use treatment
Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).
1. Psychiatric hospital
Facility is a licensed general hospital (public or private) that provides inpatient mental health services in at least one separate psychiatric living unit. This unit must have specifically allocated staff and space (beds) for treating people with mental illness. The unit may be located in the hospital itself or in a separate building, either adjacent or more remote, and is owned by the hospital.
1. Individual psychotherapy
Focuses on a patient's current life and relationships within the family, social, and work environments through one-on-one conversations with a therapist. The goal is to identify and resolve problems with insight, as well as build on strengths.
2. Couples/family therapy
An approach that uses discussions and problem-solving sessions facilitated by a therapist to help couples and family members improve their understanding of and the way they respond to one another. This type of therapy can resolve patterns of behavior that might lead to more severe mental illness. Family therapy can help educate about the nature of mental disorders and teach skills to better cope with the effects of having a family member with a mental illness, such as how to deal with feelings of anger or guilt.
3. Group therapy
Involves groups of usually 4 to 12 people who have similar problems and who meet regularly with a therapist. The therapist uses the emotional interactions of the group's members to (1) help them get relief from distress and (2) possibly modify their behavior.
4. Cognitive behavioral therapy
Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.
5. Dialectical behavior therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy approach with two key characteristics: a behavioral, problem-solving focus blended with acceptance-based strategies, and an emphasis on dialectical processes. "Dialectical" refers to the issues involved in treating patients with multiple disorders and to the type of thought processes and behavioral styles used in the treatment strategies. DBT emphasizes balancing behavioral change, problem-solving, and emotional regulation with validation, mindfulness, and acceptance.
6. Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
Provides combined treatment for mental illness and substance abuse from the same clinician or treatment team. Effective integrated treatment programs view recovery as a long-term, community-based process. The approach employs counseling designed especially for those with co-occurring disorders.
7. Activity therapy
Includes art, dance, music, recreational and occupational therapies, and psychodrama.
8. Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.
9. Abnormal involuntary movement scale
1. Smoking not permitted
Smoking is not allowed.
1. Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
Medical treatment that is provided in a hospital or other facility and requires at least one overnight stay.
2. Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Facility offers outpatient treatment services that may include group counseling, individual therapy, and access to medical care. These services are ideal for people who do not require 24-hour supervision, but who would still benefit from a high level of support.
3. Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
1. Cash or self-payment
Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.
2. Medicaid
A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.
3. Medicare
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.
4. State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
5. Private health insurance
6. Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
7. State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
Funds designed to finance the cost of treatment for mental health conditions.
8. State corrections or juvenile justice funds
9. Other State funds
10. County or local government funds
1. Crisis intervention team
A self-initiated community partnership between local law enforcement, county health services, mental health advocates, and mental health consumers. It is designed to address the needs of mental health consumers who enter the judicial system during a crisis state.
2. Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
A self-initiated community partnership between local law enforcement, county health services, mental health advocates, and mental health consumers. It is designed to address the needs of mental health consumers who enter the judicial system during a crisis state.
1. Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
A program which helps low-income, uninsured, or underinsured patients who need help paying for all or part of their medical bills.
1. Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.
2. Spanish
Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.
1. Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.
2. Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance.
3. Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with serious mental illness.
4. Young adults
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Transitional age young adults.
1. Case management service
Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.
2. Court-ordered outpatient treatment
Known by different terms in different states, such as, “assisted outpatient treatment (AOT),” “involuntary outpatient treatment,” or “mandatory outpatient treatment.” Forty-four states permit the use of court-ordered outpatient treatment as a condition for persons with severe mental illness, who are too ill to seek care voluntarily, to remain in their community. Each state has its own civil commitment laws that establish criteria for determining when court-ordered treatment is appropriate for these individuals. (https://www.crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=228)
3. Diet and exercise counseling
Diet and exercise counseling helps a person learn to make decisions about: (1) good nutrition, healthy eating practices, and food choices for health improvement and/or weight management; and (2) choosing physical activities to increase overall health and fitness, with a focus on helping persons reduce their risk for chronic disease and support their recovery.
4. Education services
Locate or provide educational services from basic literacy through a general equivalency diploma and college courses including special education at the pre-primary, primary, secondary, and adult levels.
5. Family psychoeducation
Helps consumers and their families and supporters, through relationship building, education, collaboration, and problem solving to: 1) learn about mental illness; 2) master new ways of managing their mental illness; 3) reduce tension and stress within the family; 4) provide social support and encouragement to each other; 5) focus on the future; and 6) find ways for families and supporters to help consumers in their recovery.
6. Suicide prevention services
Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.
1. Mentoring/peer support
1. Nicotine replacement
Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.
2. Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
Medications that do not contain nicotine but are designed to reduce a person's craving for tobacco. Some common examples are Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin) and Nortriptyline (Pamelor). Medications are often prescribed in conjunction with counseling or support groups to provide the best chance for achieving long-term smoking abstinence. (http://www.mayoclinic.com)
1. Screening for tobacco use
Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.
1. Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.
1. Children/Adolescents
Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.
2. Young Adults
Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.
3. Adults
Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.
4. Seniors
Facility accepts seniors (65 or older) for treatment.
1. HIV testing
Determines whether you are infected with HIV, a virus that weakens the immune system and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
2. TB screening
Skin tests that are used to screen people who are at high risk for TB exposure such as people with diseases or conditions that weaken their immune system.
3. Metabolic syndrome monitoring
4. Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
Involves blood test that measure HBV (Hepatitis B virus) antigens and antibodies.
5. Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Test for Hepatitis C, which is usually done and recommended for persons currently injecting drugs, ever injected drugs, were prior recipients of transfusions or organ transplants, or have certain medical conditions, including persons: 1. who received clotting factor concentrates produced before 1987 2. who were ever on long-term hemodialysis 3. with persistently abnormal alanine aminotransferase levels (ALT) 4. who have HIV infection
6. Laboratory testing
1. Private for-profit organization
A business or other organization whose primary goal is making money (a profit).
1. Vaping not permitted
Stories and articles of sobriety across the internet of people that successfully overcame their addiction through treatment
