CLINICAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Partial Hospitalization Services::
NECCO Center utilizes a multi-component program model based on Behavioral,
Cognitive, and Play Therapies as well as the Re-education Principles of Nicholas
Hobbs.
- Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies::
- Target thinking errors in order to correct maladaptive thoughts and teach
new coping and problem solving skills.
- Is a research-based model that has proven effective with a wide variety
of populations and diagnoses, including the disorders most frequently seen
in residential treatment (e.g., ADHD, conduct disorder, depression, etc.).
- Is relational and collaborative. Members
of the treatment team work with the resident to facilitate change.
- Encourage residents to take responsibility for his or her behavior change.
Hobbs Principles of Re-education*::
- Life is to be lived now, not in the past and lived in the future only
as a present challenge.
- Trust between child and adult is essential, the foundation on which all
other principles rest, the glue that holds teaching and learning together,
the beginning point for re-education.
- Competence makes a difference, and children and adolescents should be
helped to be good at something, especially schoolwork.
- Time is an ally, working on the side of growth in a period of development
when life has a tremendous forward thrust.
- Self-control can be taught and children and adolescents helped to manage
their behavior.
- The cognitive competence of children and adolescents can be considerably
enhanced; they can be taught generic skills in the management of their
lives as well as strategies for coping with a complex array of demands.
- Feelings should be nurtured, shared spontaneously, controlled when necessary,
expressed when too long repressed, and explored with trusted others.
- The group is very important to young people; it can be a major source
of instruction growing up.
- Ceremony and ritual give order, stability and confidence to troubled
children and adolescents, whose lives are often in considerable disarray.
- The body is the armature of the self, the physical self in which the
psychological self is constructed.
- Communities are important for children and youth.
- In growing up, a child should know some joy in each day.
*From: The Troubled and Troubling Child by Dr. Nicholas Hobbs, 1982, Jossey-Bass,
Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA.
Admission Assessments:
- Nursing Assessment within 24 hours of arrival
- Diagnostic Assessment within 72 hours of arrival
- Psychiatric Assessment within seven days of arrival to identify presenting
diagnoses and treatment needs.
Based on the assessment findings, and Individual Service
Plan (ISP) is developed by a licensed therapist and reviewed by the psychiatrist. The ISP identifies
goals and objectives for treatment within each problem area, including specific
intervention components to be utilized. On a monthly basis, an Interdisciplinary
Team meets to review the resident’s progress and to make recommendations
for continued treatment or discharge. These reports are submitted monthly
to all collateral service providers in an effort to insure that all service
needs are being met for the individual resident, family, and placement agencies.
Admission Criteria::
Presenting characteristics vary by client. NECCO Center
generally considers borderline MR/DD males ranging in age from 10-21 for admission
who meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Residents have a psychiatric Axis I diagnosis
- Moderate, Mild, or Borderline Mental Retardation
- Pervasive Development Disorder
- Learning Disorder that interferes with the individual’s
ability to benefit from traditional programming; or
- Individuals who are not capable of benefiting from a less-restrictive level
of care.
In the event that the applicant is not clinically appropriate for the NECCO
Center program or does not meet admission criteria, the Admissions Coordinator
or the Director of Clinical Services will contact the family, referral sources,
and other necessary persons to assist in arranging alternative placements.
Contact our Admissions Coordinator for additional information and
consideration at 740.534.1386.
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