COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC SUPPORTIVE TREATMENT (CPST) SERVICES
Families First provides an array of services delivered by community based, mobile individuals or multidisciplinary teams of professionals and trained others. This services addresses the individualized mental health needs of the client. They are directed towards adults, children, adolescents and families and will vary with respect to hours, type and intensity of services, depending on the changing needs of each individual. The purpose/intent of CPST services is to provide specific, measurable, and individualized services to each person served. CPST services are focused on the individual’s ability to succeed in the community; to identify and access needed services; and to show improvement in school, work and family and integration and contributions within the community.
Activities of the CPST service
When you begin individual therapy, your therapist will find out what you’d like to accomplish during the therapy sessions and set clear goals. Individual therapy has many benefits, including:
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- Ongoing assessment of needs;
- Assistance in achieving personal independence in managing basic needs as identified by the individual and/or parent or guardian;
- Facilitation of further development of daily living skills, if identified by the individual and/or parent or guardian;
- Coordination of the ISP, including:
- Services identified in the ISP;
- Assistance with accessing natural support systems in the community; and
- Linkages to formal community service/systems;
- Symptom monitoring;
- Coordination and/or assistance in crisis management and stabilization as needed;
- Advocacy and outreach;
- As appropriate to the care provided to individuals, and when appropriate, to the family, education and training specific to the individual’s assessed needs, abilities and readiness to learn;
- Mental health interventions that address symptoms, behaviors, thought processes, etc., that assist an individual in eliminating barriers to seeking or maintaining education and employment; and
- Activities that increase the individual’s capacity to positively impact his/her own environment.
Service delivery will include
- Service delivery to the person served and/or any other individual who will assist in the person’s mental health treatment.
- Service delivery may be face-to-face, by telephone, and/or by video conferencing; and
- Service delivery may be to individuals or groups.
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