Intensive in-home counseling service is a short term, client centered, family oriented behavior modification program.
In-Home serves children and adolescents, ages four to twenty-one, who have been diagnosed with mental, behavioral, and or emotional disorders; and are at risk of hospitalization or being removed from their homes.
In-home also serves those children and adolescents who have been in the custody of social services or the department of juvenile justice system, and are returning back to their homes, schools, and communities.
Interventions are designed and structured treatment modalities that include the youth, parents, family members, school personnel, physicians, mental health providers, and community service agencies.
The individual must meet at least two of the following criteria:
Has difficulty in establishing or maintaining normal interpersonal relationships to such a degree that they are at risk of hospitalization or out-of-home placement
Exhibits such inappropriate behavior that repeated interventions by mental health, social services, or judicial system are necessary
Exhibits difficulty in cognitive ability such that they are unable to recognize significantly inappropriate behavior
The following individuals will not be eligible for services:
Individuals who do not meet the admission criteria
Individuals who do not have a DSM IV diagnosis
Individuals who are married
Individuals who are in active duty with any of the armed forces of the United States
