Primary Placements
A. BAYVIEW ASSOCIATES (Child, Adolescent and Family)
Clients are children age 3 and older, adolescents and their families. The goal of the clinic is to promote and maintain the mental health of children, adolescents, and their families through the treatment of emotional and behavioral disturbance. Services include diagnostic evaluation, individual, couple, and family therapy and psychiatric evaluation and medication. Consultation and education about prevention, availability of services and clinical procedures to schools, courts, police, and other agencies is also available. Within this clinic is the Family Growth Program in which some interns may train.
Clients of the Family Growth Program are children and adolescents up to age 18, and their families who have open cases with the Department of Children and Families. This program provides a comprehensive array of home based services to families. All referrals come through DCF. The primary goals of the program are to preserve the family unit, prevent children from out-of-home placement and reunify families following placement. Clients tend to have problems such as substance abuse, child maltreatment, domestic violence, sexual abuse, inadequate parenting, serious psychiatric illness, or school difficulties.
B. COMMUNITY OUTPATIENT SERVICES (Adult)
Clients are 18 and older who have both short-term treatment needs as well as serious long-term psychiatric, emotional or interpersonal problems. The goal of this program is to promote and maintain the mental health of individuals experiencing mental or emotional difficulties through the use of multidisciplinary, multifaceted treatment and supportive services on a consistent or intermittent basis. Services are provided to assist clients in reaching highest level of functioning and reduce use of unnecessary hospitalizations serving individuals in their own community. Services include comprehensive and psychiatric evaluations, medical evaluation, prescription and follow-up, individual and group psychotherapy, supportive counseling, family support, advocacy and coordination with other community agencies and care-givers, assistance with obtaining housing and entitlements, and psychological testing when necessary.