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The Child Center's Outpatient program provides psychiatric
outpatient treatment services to Lane County children, both boys
and girls, 1-18 years of age and their families. Treatment services
are individualized and include a full array of family and adult
services. New in 1998 are services targeted solely towards adults.
This is a fee for service program with some scholarship money available
for those without a medical card, insurance or other means to pay.
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All children accepted into the program meet criteria
for a DSM IV axis I diagnosis. These children demonstrate impaired
functioning in two or more areas of their life or in a single area
to a degree that causes significant concern. Their disturbance is
generally apparent to someone seeing them at a time when they are
manifesting dysfunctional problematic behavior. They have a CGAS
(Child Global Assessment Score) of less than 65, or a CASII score
of less than 19. Many of the children have multiple diagnoses. All
of them have experienced a significant disruption in level of functioning
compared with peers and a normal course of child development. Often
these children have been experiencing mental and emotional disturbances
for at least one year. In cases where the disturbance has lasted
less than one year, they present substantial risk of developing
a long term emotional disturbance; harming themselves; or harming
others if they do not receive treatment.
The children and adolescents served by this brief
outpatient therapy program may live at home with parents, in single
parent households, in foster care, with relatives, in blended step
families, other arrangement, or be homeless. Many of these clients
have already come to the attention of one or more agencies before
being referred for treatment. These agencies are often those who
provide health care, education, juvenile justice, protective services,
early education and prevention services.
Family participation and adult services are a crucial
component of the overall treatment program. |
