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MH#1: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Mental Health Bulletin #1 - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) was developed to treat post-traumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
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MH#2: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT)
Mental Health Bulletin #2 - Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) requires that mental health and substance abuse treatment be delivered concurrently by a team of cross-trained clinicians within the same program.
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MH#3: Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)
Mental Health Bulletin #3 - The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 6% of the U.S. population has severe mental illness (SMI). For North Carolina, that percentage translates to approximately 200,000 people who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders.
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MH#4: Family Psychoeducation
Mental Health Bulletin #4 - Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often rely on family members for the majority of their needed support, and it is estimated that 35-60% of adults with SMI live with family members.
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SA#1: Contingency Management (CM)
Substance Abuse Bulletin #1 - Contingency management (CM) is a motivational incentive intervention in which clients with substance use disorders receive small rewards for attending treatment, taking prescribed medication, providing negative urine samples, or complying with other defined treatment-related goals.
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SA#2: Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
Substance Abuse Bulletin #2 - The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a parenting and family strengthening program for high risk families. It combines science-based (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child life-skill building, and (3) family lifeskill education into a program that improves the child's social/life skills and family functioning and protects the children from the long-term risks of drug abuse.
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SA#3: Seeking Safety
Substance Abuse Bulletin #3 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may result from exposure and sometimes multiple exposures to highly traumatic events such as child abuse, accidents, violent personal assaults, military combat, or natural or human caused disasters.
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SA#4: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment
Substance Abuse Bulletin #4 - Matrix was developed in the 1980s by researchers at the University of Southern California and clinicians at the Matrix Institute on Addictions who found that clients addicted to stimulants were challenging the existing treatment system.
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SA#5: The Seven Challenges
Substance Abuse Bulletin #5 - The Seven Challenges program was developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Robert Schwebel who recognized the lack of age appropriate substance abuse treatment models for adolescents.
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Developing Effective, High-Quality Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Guide for Local Management Entities
by Beth Melcher, Ph.D. This manual seeks to clarify and provide guidance to LMEs on how to successfully engage in the service development role. It promotes the implementation of evidence-based and best practice services and supports.
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National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities.
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The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) offers free training and resources on a variety of topics, including cognitive processing therapy and trauma-focused cognitive based therapy (TF-CBT) (http://tfcbt.musc.edu/). Developed by Patricia Resick, Ph.D., in 1991, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a manualized cognitive based therapy offered in 12 sessions. Clients complete worksheets and homework assignments to gain further understanding and insight about past traumatic events. In addition to the MUSC website, more detail about CPT can be found here. Developed in the early 1980s by Cohen, Deblinger, and associates, TF-CBT is a psychosocial treatment model designed to treat posttraumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. The treatment model is designed to be delivered by trained therapists in 12-16 sessions of individual and parent-child therapy. Click here for more information.
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| January 7th, 2008 |
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Teaching Family Model receives designation from the NCPIC
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Submitted by Appalachian Family Innovations, the Mental Health Committee of the NCPIC reviewed the Teaching Family model and has awarded the following designation:
The Teaching Family Model is being recommended at the following levels of evidence specific to the setting in which the intervention is being delivered:
Promising Practice for the Residential Treatment in a Group Home Setting
Emerging Practice for use in Outpatient Settings
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