TREATMENT GOALS
Clinical staff members provide clients with assessment, individual and group therapy, and therapeutic after school and summer school services and case management. Parents, or other adults who are responsible for a client's care, are provided parent education, support groups and family therapy. These services help establish and maintain the link between a child's school life and family life. Clinicians provide the family with resource planning services and effective behavior management in the home. A basic premise of our program is the belief that a student's progress in the program is greatly enhanced by the involvement and support of the family unit.
Goals of therapeutic services are:
- To increase self awareness
- Acknowledge progress and accept praise
- Utilize criticism constructively
- Increase ability to evaluate self
- To develop social skills
- Develop daily-living skills and socially appropriate behaviors
- Become aware of responsibilities
- Learn to deal appropriately with different situations and systems
- To increase self esteem
- Learn to participate in numerous small group activities
- Learn to acknowledge and delight in achievements of self and others
- To improve functioning in the home, school and community
- Learn to function more comfortably within the family
- Increase awareness of family and community dynamics
- Improve school attendance and academic achievement
Education Level of Staff
Master or doctoral level clinicians are assigned to each of our sites. Child and adolescent psychiatrists from the University of Miami School of Medicine provide psychiatric evaluations and consultation, pharmacological management and consultation for day treatment program and training to Center staff.
Full-time licensed clinical psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed mental health counselors supervise our clinical staff members. Psychologists from Miami-Dade County Public Schools provide psychological evaluations prior to admittance to our program and provide re-evaluations as needed.
Practicum students and interns from local universitiesare provided a practicum experience at the center and are closely supervised by BACC staff.
Cooperative cross discipline education and training are provided to BACC administrative, supervisory, educational, clinical and medical staff.
