Adolescent Integrative Services
Yellowbrick recognizes that many adolescents are struggling with psychiatric challenges which strain their well-being and ability to function effectively at school, with peers or at home. Adolescent Integrative Services at Yellowbrick provide a range of services geared toward preventive intervention within the context of a developmentally facilitating platform for teens who have already begun to manifest disruptive psychiatric difficulties.
The principles and emphasis of Adolescent Integrative Services are:
- Individualized Assessment
- Individualized Treatment Plans covering a spectrum of care combining individual services and groups
- Self-regulation/governance skill development
- Identity integration, secure attachment and social effectiveness
- Integration of education and treatment
- Emotional development
Interventions available include:
- Further assessment as indicated
- Psychotherapy and psychiatric services as needed
- Collaboration with schools, professionals and currently existing providers
- Education and educational support, including classes that maintain existing school curricula
- Cognitively based skills development, including MBSR, DBT, Open DBT, ACT, CBT (anxiety, depression, insomnia)
- Emotion regulation through sensorimotor mind-body integration
- Family therapy and weekend family workshops
- Trauma, addictions & eating disorder consultation/counseling
- Narrative, drama, improv, and yoga as integrative therapeutic activities
- Pharmaco-genomic medication & nutraceutical treatment
- Neuropsychiatric interventions including neurofeedback and deepTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation
Paths to engage treatment based on level of care desired and needed
The Adolescent Services program is designed to provide the initiation of treatment through several assessment paths. Once initiated, treatment can involve a limited package of therapy services, a package drawing on a broader range of interventions, or participation in our After School Intensive Outpatient Program that integrates the full range of available services.
Assessment
Treatment begins with one of three assessment paths:
- A 3-interview initial assessment (individual, family, psychiatric), designed to occur during one morning or afternoon. This initial assessment concludes with a feedback session a day or two later that focuses on and serves to initiate immediate treatment needs.
- Further assessment that co-occurs with initial treatment and that builds toward a more comprehensive and integrated formulation, moving toward an extended Collaboration Conference providing findings and recommendations of treatment components.
- A comprehensive original assessment that integrates all assessment components, culminating in an extended Collaboration Conference providing findings and recommendations of treatment components.
Available Assessment Components
- Adolescent and parent psychological interviews
- Psychiatric interview involving input from parents
- Family interviews with parents and adolescent
- qEEG (quantitative Electroencephalogram)
- Educational needs assessment, including consultation with the school
- Genomic testing
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Specialized Psychiatric Interview with the Medical Director to assist in understanding underlying etiology and dynamics
- Components directed toward specific needs, including
- Executive functioning
- Life skills
- Eating disorders and issues of relation to the body
- Addictions
- Trauma
Treatment
There are three paths of treatment engagement varying by level of comprehensiveness and involvement. There is flexibility to move from one level to another as the need and desire indicates.
- Individual and/or family therapy, educational support, and either psychiatric oversight or direct psychiatric services including medication management.
- Additional individual and group treatment and educational interventions towards establishing stability in meeting the developmental tasks of adolescence, including parent-child relationships. This path involves additional prescriptive individual and/or group services.
- Participation in Neurofeedback, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and other neuro-regulation technologies
Compare Yellowbrick’s Adolescent Integrative Services
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Routine Adolescent IOP |
Yellowbrick Adolescent Integrative Services |
Staffing |
Generally junior masters level |
Experienced Masters and senior Doctoral level |
Assessment |
1-2 hours interviews |
Flexibility ranging a spectrum from brief initial assessment to a fuller assessment including genetic testing, neuroimaging, interviews and a 90 minute Collaboration Conference |
Service Integration |
Splintered |
All components available on-site |
Educational focus on Adolescent-specific developmental challenges |
Possibly |
Essential to the full treatment model and available as needed |
Continuation of school |
General classes available |
Classes are individualized and coordinated with home school district |
Schedule |
3-5 days full or part time |
Flexible, depending on need, desire and availability, ranging from limited therapy services to 5 days after school with extensive family therapy |
Skills-based CBT/DBT |
Sole intervention model |
CBT, DBT, RODBT, ACT, MBSR, Sensori-motor approaches integrated into a fuller spectrum of treatment modalities |
Mind-body work to regulate emotion/behavior |
Infrequent, if at all |
Essential to the full treatment model and available as needed when there is more limited treatment engagement |
Clinical Neuroscience Interventions |
Rarely available if at all |
On-site MD’s: neurofeedback, dTMS, medications, nutraceuticals, genomic testing |
Family Therapy |
Usually 1x/week as an adjunct |
Integrated fully into the treatment model, available 1-3 times/week |
Family education & support |
Usually part of family therapy |
Availability of bi-monthly family workshops and of a Family Liaison for ongoing and as-needed round-the-clock consultation |
At Yellowbrick, emerging adults find their way home.
For more information, please contact Yellowbrick at 847-869-1500.