01 Schools & Behavior Health Rehabilitation Services

Management Concepts

In Pennsylvania the Office of Medical Assistance [Medicaid] has developed the use of managed care organizations in an attempt to save money. This article explores suggestions as to how to bring a very fragmented system of child services together in creative ways to enable children with problems in living to improve social performance. Behavioral health is the current metaphor for ‘mental illness’ a metaphor for problems in living that makes the person appear to be bizarre.

03 Organizational Models

Management Concepts

In making the shift from traditional models of serving people with problems in living to a transitional model dedicated to the use of cognitive behavioral management, one is required to look at the full range of organizational elements which have been identified by Robert B. Waterman, Jr., Thomas J. Peters and Julian Phillips in a 1990 article called Structure Is Not Organization.

36 Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing

Practice Techniques

Clinical Prompt [to be used AFTER the technique is understood] Cognitive Process Correction is being used to address the client’s automatic thoughts The client and the clinician agree that there are emotional issues that may be addressed by EMDR Clinician evaluates...

35 The Mirror Model

Practice Techniques

The following material is adapted from ‘THE ‘MIRROR MODEL: A Guide to Reflective Questioning’ by Philip Harland, first published in Rapport magazine, Issue 42, Winter 1998. A Guide to Reflective Questioning “Only reason can convince us of those three...

34 Reframing

Practice Techniques

The major source of this material is the book by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Reframing, published in 1982. Additional sources are Bernard J. Baar’s A Cognitive Theory Of Consciousness, published in 1988, Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions, Leda Cosmides...