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RHD Children’s Services
90 Rochelle Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19128
Phone: (215) 508-3300
Fax: (215) 508-3210
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Bus Transfer Center (bus routes 1, 9, 27, 38, 61, 62,
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Children’s Clinical
Services
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Children’s Clinical Services (CCS) has been providing support services for RHD’s children’s mental health programs since 2004. Programs receiving support from CCS include Stepping Stones, COSP, CIRT, and SBBH. Services provided to these units currently include clinical direction and oversight and consultation regarding quality assurance and continuous quality improvement.
CCS opened a children’s outpatient mental health program at our 90 Rochelle Avenue office in 2007. Services provided in this program include individual and family therapy, psychiatric assessment, and ongoing psychiatric treatment.
MISSION STATEMENT
Children’s Clinical Services (CCS) at RHD provides outpatient psychiatry and outpatient psychotherapy services to children and adolescents at our 90 Rochelle Avenue office. Our therapists work with children and families with a variety of concerns, including difficulties with attention or hyperactivity, mood problems, anxiety problems, and problems adjusting to changes in their lives. Our primary mission is to provide high quality and compassionate therapeutic services to children and their families while maintaining the highest possible ethical standards.
TREATMENT PHILOSOPHY
Our professionals believe that mental health problems arise due to a combination of biological and environmental factors. Our staff members also believe that children are best understood and treated when the “context” of their lives is taken into account—this includes understanding family factors, neighborhood factors, school factors, etc., that influence each child. In addition, CCS staff members are interested in learning the good things about each child and family, not just the areas that need “fixing,” in order to provide therapy that is strength-based.
Families are expected to participate in the creation of each child’s treatment plan and to actively participate in the treatment process through a willingness to learn new ideas, skills, and practices that will help to improve the child’s functioning. Sometimes we will ask caregivers’ and other family members’ to participate in therapy sessions.
We also ask that caregivers are willing to reconsider the ways that they interact with their child outside of therapy sessions.
All children referred to CCS will receive an evaluation in order to understand the “big picture” of the child and the family so that appropriate interventions can be developed and agreed upon by the psychiatrist, therapist, child, and his/her parents/guardians.
CCS EMPLOYEE ROLES
Outpatient Therapist
An outpatient therapist is an individual with a master’s degree in a mental health field, such as clinical or counseling psychology, who is trained to conduct psychotherapy with individuals and families. Some outpatient therapists are licensed as Social Workers or Professional Counselors, whereas others are not. Outpatient therapists at CCS all have supervised experience conducting psychotherapy with children and families. CCS’s psychiatrist supervises the clinical work of the outpatient therapists at CCS.
Psychologist
A Psychologist is an individual who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, or school psychology. Psychologists have extensive training in diagnosis and more formal types of assessment (e.g., IQ testing or personality assessment) and in psychotherapy. Unlike psychiatrists, psychologists are not medical doctors and are not trained to prescribe and monitor medication to treat mental health problems.
Psychiatrist
A Psychiatrist is a medical doctor with training in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems. In addition to training in psychotherapy and mental health assessment, psychiatrists are specifically trained to prescribe and monitor medication to treat mental health problems. Psychiatrists often serve as the leaders of treatment teams and are responsible for reviewing client’s treatment plans and initial assessments.
Doctoral Practicum Student
As part of their doctoral training program, students training to become psychologists are required to participate in a “practicum” experience, which is a field placement where they can further develop their skills as psychotherapists. At CCS, doctoral practicum students are employed as psychotherapists. Doctoral practicum students are supervised closely by licensed psychologists, including having weekly meetings to discuss their clients and to review audio recordings of their therapy sessions.
For this reason, if your child’s psychotherapist is a doctoral practicum student, you may be asked to consent to having your child’s therapy sessions recorded. These recordings will only be listened to by your therapist’s supervisor, and will be closely guarded and erased once they are no longer needed.
If your child’s therapist is a doctoral practicum student, you can choose to talk to or meet with their supervisor (who will be identified for you when your child begins therapy) at any time throughout your child’s treatment at CCS.
Children’s
Clinical Services
Director:
Lisa Marie Boschi, Ph.D.
Director’s Email: lisamarieb@RHDkids.org
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