Clinical Treatments
PCMH offers the full range of clinic services to both children and adults. Experienced social workers and psychologists serve as therapists and clinical supervisors, providing treatment in multiple models of care. Therapy is offered from a psychodynamic, family, cognitive, behavioral or medical model of care, based on the specific needs of the client. Specialized services include group therapy, play therapy for children, couples and family therapy, psychological testing, and medication consultation and management. The Eastside clinic also offers specialized expertise through its dedicated units, serving performing and creative artists, gay and lesbian individuals, clients with addiction recovery issues, children and adolescents. The Westside clinic offers individual, couple, and group therapy, medication management, and case management for consumers with serious mental illness.
PCMH provides a structured, time-limited intensive program to consumers with serious mental illness. This program offers a full range of mental health services, such as individual and group psychotherapy and medication management. The focus of CDT is on fostering greater independence and self-sufficiency. Using psycho-education, the CDT promotes symptom reduction so that the consumer can begin an active reentry into the larger community, either through additional education, vocational training or volunteer efforts.
Continuing Day Treatment Program(CDT-MICA)
This time limited, cognitively based program provides additional interventions that address the needs of consumers who have problems with substance abuse. Using a four level system that increases self sufficiency and promotes reintegration into the larger community, MICA stresses relapse prevention. Consumers generally spend between six and eighteen months in the program, depending upon their individual needs.
Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation Treatment(IPRT)
IPRT provides a time limited, highly focused intervention to assist consumers to achieve a more desired functioning in the area of work, education or housing. The program is flexible, providing up to a maximum of four days per week, to allow a tailored schedule that facilitates the consumer's reintegration into more routine aspects of daily life. For example, consumers are likely to reduce the number of hours in program as they return to school or begin a volunteer job. Most consumers graduate from IPRT in six to twelve months.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
The Assertive Community Treatment Program provides on-going, community based psychiatric services to people who have histories of mental illness, multiple in-patient admissions, and difficulties obtaining or maintaining treatment in out patient treatment programs. The ACT Team conducts treatment needs assessments, which includes psychiatric services and social services. The Team makes home visits, referrals to other services as needed and appropriate, and coordination of services. The ACT Program is not time limited, but it is limited to residents of Sunset Park, Red Hook, Park Slope, and areas of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.
Referrals to Programs
PCMH makes every effort to facilitate easy and timely access to services. Clinical, financial and psychosocial information is required in order to establish eligibility for programs.
For guidance about the referral process, contact:
Westside Clinical & Residential Programs
212-560-6731
Eastside Clinical Services
212-576-4195
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team
718-431-8725
Blended Case Management (BCM)
212-576-4167
Employment Services
212-560-6729