Family Treatment. Psychological counseling provided for the direct benefit of a Medicaid-enrolled individual. Service is provided with family members and/or other relevant persons in attendance as active participants. Treatment must be appropriate to the culture of the client and his/her family and should reinforce the family structure, improve communication and awareness, enforce and reintegrate the family structure within the community, and reduce the family crisis/upheaval. The treatment will provide family-centered interventions to identify and address family dynamics and build competencies to strengthen family functioning in relationship to the consumer. Family treatment may take place without the consumer present in the room but service must be for the benefit of attaining the goals identified for the individual in his/her Individual Service Plan. This service is provided by or under the supervision of a Mental Health Professional.
Family Treatment the use of psychotherapeutic and counseling techniques in the treatment of an Enrollee and his/her partner and/or family simultaneously in the same session. Group Treatment – the use of psychotherapeutic or counseling techniques in the treatment of a group, most of whom are not related by blood, marriage, or legal guardianship. Individual Treatment – the use of psychotherapeutic or counseling techniques in the treatment of an individual on a one-to-one basis. Inpatient-Outpatient Bridge Visit – a single-session consultation conducted by an outpatient provider while an Enrollee remains on an Inpatient psychiatric unit. The Inpatient-Outpatient Bridge Visit involves the outpatient Provider meeting with the Enrollee and the inpatient team or designated inpatient treatment team clinician. Assessment for Safe and Appropriate Placement (ASAP) – an assessment, required by MGL 119 Sec. 33B, conducted by a diagnostician with specialized training and experience in the evaluation and treatment of sexually abusive youth or arsonists, to evaluate individuals who are in the care and custody of DSS and who have been adjudicated delinquent for a sexual offense or the commission of arson, or have admitted to such behavior, or are the subject of a documented or substantiated report of such behavior, and who are being discharged from Inpatient Psychiatric Unit or Hospital or Community-Based Acute Treatment for Children/Adolescents or Intensive Community Based Acute Treatment for Children/Adolescents to a family home care setting. Services are provided through a DSS designated ASAP provider.
Family Treatment. Psychological counseling p rovided for the direct benefit of a Medicaid-enrolled individual. Service is provided with family members and/or other relevant persons in attendance as active participants. Treatment must be appropriate to the culture of the client and his her family and should reinforce the family structure, improve communication and awareness, enforce and reintegrate the family structure within the community, and reduce the family crisis/upheaval. The treatment will provide fami ly-centered interventions to identify and address famlly dynamics and build competencies to strengthen family fu n ctioning in relationship to the consumer. Family treatment may take place without the consumer present in the room but service must 55 GCBH Agreement No. QBHPIHP16-00 Health Professionals, mental health care providers and peer counselors.
