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How Center Procedures Can Help
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).

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