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Child & Adolescent Level of Care Utilization System - Ages 5 to 21
CALOCUS is an assessments and placement instruments developed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists AACP & the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry AACAP.
South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services requires the use of the Child and Adolescent Level of Care Utilization System (CALICOS) as the standardized pre-admission criteria for all beneficiaries being considered for placement in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) to receive rehabilitative behavioral health services.
Clinical Supervision
The purpose of clinical supervision is to monitor, develop and improve a mental health practitioner’s performance by learning skills from a licensed mental health professional.
The mental health practitioner meets regularly with the clinical supervisor to reflect and review clinical situations treatment and support needs, service delivery and discuss other professional issues in a structured way.
Diagnostic Assessment
Families often seek assistance because of concerns they have about children’s behaviors, moods or other symptoms. Sometimes others involved with children may observe signs of possible mental health needs and recommend that parents pursue a diagnostic assessment.
Other times, mental health or developmental screenings may identify early potential mental health problems.
This usually results in referring these children to a mental health professional for further evaluation.
Plans of Care
Before providing any mental health treatment, a treatment plan must be completed. The Individual Plan of Care (IPOC) is essential, because it informs the provider and others about the goals, type of services, service intensity and progress indicators that are designed to address problems, needs and preferences.
Counseling
Therapy (sometimes called “psychotherapy” or “counseling”) is a process through which clients work one- on-one with a trained therapist-in a safe, caring, and confidential environment-to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors.
As well as work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change. Can be done in a individual, couple or family setting.
Group Therapy
Group therapy is a process through which a small group of people (generally six to ten) meet face-to-face with a trained group therapist to talk about a particular issue with which all of them are struggling-such as grief/bereavement, anger management, eating disorders, living with chronic depression or anxiety, recovering from childhood sexual abuse, etc.
Targeted Case Management
Targeted Case Management (TCM) is a means for achieving beneficiary wellness through communication, education and services identification and referral. TCM is a time-limited procedure that provides an organized structured process for moving beneficiaries through the techniques of change & toward the goal of self-sufficiency.
The TCM process is a shared partnership, where all parties are involved in all phases of each task from-assessment, planning, problem solving and identification of resources.
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