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How Center Procedures Can Help
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The following services are available
privately from the directors or associates of the Center. We would also be
happy to refer you to the appropriate practitioner for your needs, whether
or not that person is associated with the Center.
- COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
We have evolved protocols for focused evaluations of patients' psychiatric, psychological,
neuropsychological, or neurological needs. These evaluations are ideally conducted according to our collaborative
psychology and psychiatry model. As part of the Center designed assessment process, a
psychologist-assessor provides neuropsychological or psychological testing data, as well as
an independent clinical evaluation. Other consultants pertinent to the assessment are involved as needed.
As designed, a comprehensive
assessment concludes with a series of meetings incorporating a trial of the treatment
strategies identified as promising in the assessment.
For a detailed description of this comprehensive assessment procedure, please
click
here.
- FOCUSED, TIME-LIMITED THERAPEUTIC
INTERVENTIONS
Focused therapeutic interventions, including
time-limited psychotherapy, are extended versions of the final portion of
the comprehensive assessment described above. According to this model, when
psychotherapy is recommended it is monitored to
assure efficacy and progress.
- REMEDIATION OF COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS
Remedial protocols are followed by independent psychologists to whom we refer for
problems such as attention deficit disorder (ADD) and learning
disabilities.
- MONITORING and FOLLOWUP: ASSESSING THE RESULTS OF
TREATMENT
We advocate regular monitoring of patients' progress during
treatment. Then, when treatment is completed, we recommend regular followup
contacts to assess whether an intervention has had lasting
impact.
- CONSULTATION TO THERAPISTS, EDUCATORS, AND OTHER
PROFESSIONALS EXPERIENCING IMPASSES
Therapists and other professionals often experience impasses
impeding their therapeutic or remedial work. We can provide consultation
for these situations either from Center directors and associates or by referral
to practitioners outside the Center.
- TRAINING
Center members provide trainings in our
collaborative treatment model through ongoing
consultation groups and seminars.
Dr. Frankel is authorized to provide continuing education units to participating
psychologists (A.P.A. Provider #1754), or L.C.S.W.s and M.F.T.s (California Provider #3239).
Direction for People Seeking Solutions to Personal
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