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Mental Health Therapy | Family School Liaison | Occupational Health Therapy
The Mental Health Service Team works to improve the student's emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal functioning and thus increase/restore their availability for learning within the school environment.
Mental Health Service Team
The Mental Health Service team provides school-based services to children and youth, their families and to schools. The typical range of services includes:
- Consultation
Generally to school personnel and parents.
- Assessment and Treatment
The latter may focus on the individual and/or family.
- Therapy Groups
Typical topics include: grief, depression, anxiety, and parenting.
- Advocacy
Generally on behalf of the child, the family and/or the school.
- Capacity Building
As part of the service delivery, clinicians look for opportunities to build capacity in the child, the family, and/or school personnel.
- Access
While the focus of SHP Mental Health Services is to provide school based services that support students in participating fully in educational programs and achieving their potential, the CHR SHP clinicians, via their CHR triage/intake connections, can also provide access to the health region's mental health continuum of care, which entails community resources and Facility resources.
- Referrals
The school is the gateway for all referrals. Typical referrals are children and youth experiencing emotional, behavioural, and/or interpersonal difficulties, where these difficulties are having a demonstrable, negative impact on their learning. The goal of the service is to address these difficulties and, if possible, restore the student's availability for learning.
NB:
The team is a non-crisis service.
- Teamwork
Parents and teachers are encouraged to play active, supportive roles in the assessment and treatment of the child. This may entail participating in the clinician's information gathering efforts (e.g. phone conversations, brief meetings), and playing a supportive role in treatment, if indicated (e.g. teachers might monitor behaviour in the classroom, and parents might encourage skill practice at home).
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September 20, 2011
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