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In-Home Therapy
In-Home Therapy
In-Home Therapy is intensive therapy provided for a child and family to treat the child/youth's behavioral health needs and help the family support him or her in the home. This service is delivered by one or more members of a team consisteing of professional and paraprofessional staff, offering a cominbation of medically necessary In-Home Therapy and Therapeuric Training and Support. In-Home Therapy is a structured, consistent, strength-based therapeutic relationship between a licensed clinician and the youth and family designed to improve the youth's functioning in the home and community and prevent the need for admission to a psychiatric hospital, residential treatment facility, or other out-of-home placement. The In-Home Therapy team (made up of the treating staff, family, and youth) develops a treatment plan, and using established psychotherapeutic techniques and intensive family therapy, works with the entire family, or particular parts of the family, to implement focused interventions and behavioral techniques. Goals include: enhance problem solving, limit setting, risk management/risk taking, communication, build skills to strengthen the family, improve interactions, identify community resources, and develop and maintain natural supports for the youth and family to help them maintain treatment gains. Phone contact and consultation are also provided as part of treatment.