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Welcome!
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The Center for Collaborative Psychology and
Psychiatry:
Providing Comprehensive Assessment, Goal-Oriented
Treatment,
and Professional Training |
The Center for Collaborative Psychology and
Psychiatry
is a cooperative group of independent practitioners
The Center for Collaborative
Psychology and Psychiatry offers a uniquely practical and effective
approach to psychological, neuropsychological, and psychiatric assessment and
treatment. Three minds -- the therapist, a psychologist consultant, and patient
-- join in a thorough evaluation of the patient's needs and resources. The
result is a clear account of the patient's personal requirements, with a
detailed plan for achieving these. All members of the treatment team, with the
patient as an equal participant, rely on one another to identify biases, and
renew and revise perspective as they come to understand the patient and his or
her requirements. The three are full collaborators in a quest for the most
profound and effective solutions to the patient's difficulties.
Recommendations may include psychotherapy that is focused and time-limited, or
ongoing. Other modalities, such as
cognitive and behavioral remediation,
medication, and educational or vocational
services are added selectively. Progress is formally reevaluated
periodically with the psychologist-consultant who participated in the initial
evaluation. In brief, the objectives identified in the assessment are
translated into concrete goals and procedures for achieving these; progress is
monitored until treatment stops and then throughout the followup period.
In our work at the Center for Collaborative Psychology and
Psychiatry, we engage other professionals with needed areas of expertise.
These include, for example, physicians, occupational therapists, and speech
therapists. Family members are incorporated when appropriate to enrich the
evaluation and treatment procedure. Our aim is always to bring a measure of
objectivity and practicality to a therapeutic process that is usually embedded
with subjectivity and from which outside measures of change are excluded.
All work at the Center is conducted according to our collaborative
psychology™ method. The elements of this process are elaborated in
Steven Frankel's three books and
published articles, all culminating in his newest book,
Making Psychotherapy Work:
Collaborating Effectively with Your Patient.
Using our
collaborative psychology™ model, we offer:
- A comprehensive psychiatric, psychological, and
neuropsychological evaluation.
- Time-limited or open-ended psychotherapy
conducted in a collaborative manner and monitored for efficacy through periodic
consultations with a psychologist skilled in neuropsychological and personality
assessment.
- Treatment and remediation for cognitive and behavioral disorders
- Referral, as needed, to a select list of
professionals chosen according to a client's needs and style
- Consultations to psychotherapists who are
experiencing impasses
- Trainings for therapists and for allied
professionals, such as educators
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Ongoing biweekly consultation groups led by Steve Frankel
and earning continuing education units for Psychologists
(A.P.A. Provider #1754), L.C.S.W.s and M.F.T.s
(California Provider #3239)
Client and therapist, in an interpersonal partnership:
- Strategize personal change in an effort that is
systematic and goal-oriented.
- Identify problems and collaboratively evolve
solutions.
- Make use of a broad-based approach to problems, often
involving disciplines beyond psychology and psychotherapy.
We hope you will find our website informative, and look
forward to your inquiries
about our services and publications.
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