Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment (CPST)

CPST services focus on offering therapeutic activities and interventions that promote stability and well-being in daily life for individuals with mental health challenges. The CPST program emphasizes teaching life skills, understanding behavioral consequences, developing healthy habits, and applying effective problem-solving techniques. CPST workers collaborate with families and key support figures to equip them with the tools needed to avoid behavioral triggers and support the child’s path to success.

• CPST services are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to address challenges associated with a behavioral health need and to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child’s treatment plan.
• CPST services must be part of the treatment plan, which includes the activities necessary to prevent, correct or ameliorate conditions discovered during the initial assessment visits.
• CPST is an intervention with the child/youth, family/caregiver or other collateral supports. This is a multi-component service that consists of therapeutic interventions such as counseling, as well as functional supports.
• Activities provided under CPST are intended to assist the child/youth and family/caregivers to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery and/or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships in school and community integration.
• The family/caregiver, therefore, is expected to have an integral role in the support and treatment of the child/youth’s behavioral health need.
• CPST is designed to provide community-based services to children and families who may have difficulty engaging in formal office settings but can benefit from home and/or community-based rehabilitative services.

Our community psychiatric support and treatment (CPST) services include but are not limited to:

• Guidance for Families and Support Network
• Real-Life Application of Therapy Goals
• Services Promoting Stability and Improved Mental Health
• Addressing Behavioral Challenges

PSR/CPST Modality and Settings

Modality

• Individual
• Family – with or without the child present, as long as the contact is in the treatment plan.
• Collateral – family and/or collateral contact with or without the child present.
• Group – may be delivered under Rehabilitative Supports and Rehabilitative Psychoeducation. Groups cannot exceed 8 participants.

Settings

• Site-based
• Home
• Other community-based settings where the child/youth lives, works, attends school, engages in services, and socializes.

Intensive Interventions

• Individual, family and relationship-based counseling, supportive counseling, solution-focused interventions, emotional and behavioral management, and problem behavior analysis with the individual, with the goal of developing and implementing social, interpersonal, self-care, and independent living skills to restore stability, support functional gains, and adapt to community living.
• These interventions engage the child/youth and family/caregiver in ways that support the everyday application of treatment methods as described in the child’s/youth’s treatment plan.

Crisis Avoidance

• Assisting the child/youth with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers that would risk their remaining in a natural community location, including assisting the child/youth and family members or other collaterals with identifying a potential psychiatric or personal crisis, developing a crisis management plan, and/or seeking other supports to restore stability and functioning.
• It is an intervention to assist the child and family in developing the capacity to prevent a crisis episode or reduce the severity of a crisis episode should one occur.

Intermediate Term Crisis Management

• Assisting families following a crisis episode experienced by a child/family as stated in the crisis management plan. This component is intended to be stability-focused and relationship-based for existing children/youth receiving CPST services. It is also intended for children in need of longer-term crisis management services after having received a crisis intervention service such as mobile crisis or ER. The purpose of this activity is to:
  1. Stabilize the child/youth in the home and natural environment
  2. Assist with goal setting to focus on the issues identified from mobile crisis or emergency room intervention, and other referral sources

Rehabilitative Psychoeducation

• Educating the child/youth and family members or other collaterals to identify strategies or treatment options with the goal of minimizing the negative effects of symptoms, emotional disturbances, substance use, or associated environmental stressors which interfere with the child/youth’s daily living, financial management, housing, academic and/or employment progress, personal recovery or resilience, family and/or interpersonal relationships, and community integration.

Strengths Based Service Planning

• Assisting the child/youth and family members or other collaterals with identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports, and developing goals and objectives to utilize personal strengths, resources, and natural supports to address functional deficits associated with their mental illness.

Rehabilitative Supports

• Restoration, rehabilitation, and support to minimize the negative effects of behavioral health symptoms or emotional disturbances that interfere with the child’s/youth’s daily functioning.
• This may include improving life safety skills such as the ability to access emergency services, basic safety practices and evacuation, physical and behavioral health care (maintenance, scheduling physician appointments), recognizing when to contact a physician or seek information from the appropriate provider, and understanding the purpose and possible side effects of medication prescribed for conditions.

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