Therapy Information
Therapy Information
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Referral Information Template.pdfLooking into therapy for your student or your family?
Looking into therapy for your student or your family?
Click this document to the left, download it, print it, and fill it out. Then, use it when you call a therapist or a mental health counseling center to put in a referral for your student. This document covers all the basic information they will be looking for when they create an intake for you and the student.
Therapeutic Supports for Children and Parents
(some services are not covered with private insurance and only take MassHealth)
Outpatient Therapy (OPT)
Individual
Child and/or parents receiving individual therapeutic support to build individual coping skills and strategies.
Family
Child and/or parents receiving familial therapeutic support to build
In Home Therapy (IHT)
The Child and parents receive therapeutic support to address social or emotional concerns within the home.
Therapeutic Mentor (TM)
This is a young adult who helps a child develop independent living, social and communication skills, as well as providing education, training and support services for children and their families. It is a structured one-to-one relationship between paraprofessional and youth, addressing daily living, social and communication skills.
Family Partner (FP)
A parent who has lived experiences living with a child with mental health challenges provides structured one to one services with the parent or caregiver of the youth.
Intensive Care Coordinator (ICC)
Involves a single care coordinator that provides the parent with support. This support includes referring the child for mental health services, or to service as a point person for multiple providers already providing support for the child and parent.
Mobile Crisis
It is a mobile, face to face response for youth in crisis. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Intervention can occur in the home or in the community by a clinical or paraprofessional team. The goal is to assess, de-escalate and stabilize and to do safety planning, referrals and support to maintain youth in a natural setting.
Types of Therapy
There is a broad spectrum of mental health issues that our teenagers can struggle with, but there is an equally broad range of therapies and treatments to address these issues. Luckily, the internet also provides a wealth of resources to learn more about adolescent mental health.
We hope the links below might be useful for you:
Levels of care : This document defines some of the types of treatment and treatment providers you may be encountering.
A few links describing common adolescent mental health challenges:
Anxiety
Borderline Personality
Thought Distortions
Sleep Hygiene
Two therapeutic approaches that are very common are DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) and CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy)
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