The Adolescent Therapeutic Community: An Integrated Model of Care

• By: John M. Venza, LCSW-R, LMHC Outreach
• April 19th, 2022
• adolescents, community, mental health, motivation, peers, resources, Spring 2022 Issue, substance use, teenagers, therapeutic community, treatment
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I was once told early in my career that the Therapeutic Community (TC) takes an hour to explain but a lifetime to master. The traditional Therapeutic Community model has saved countless lives over the past several decades featuring a therapeutic milieu that uses the community as the healer and...

Pediatric Behavioral Health Urgent Care: An Innovative Model of Care for Children and Adolescents

• By: Rachel A. Fernbach, Esq. NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• April 19th, 2022
• adolescents, behavioral health, children, mental health support, psychiatric care and treatment, Spring 2022 Issue, urgent care
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The Cohen Children’s Pediatric Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center (“BH Urgi”), located on Long Island, NY, is an alternative treatment setting for school-aged children and adolescents ages 5 through 17 in need of urgent mental health support. BH Urgi is intended to provide urgent or...

Social Determinants and Adolescents’ Mental Health: First, Focus on Education and Graduation

• By: Evelyn R. Frankford, MSW Frankford Consulting
• January 1st, 2021
• adolescents, dropout, education, mental health, prison, school, social determinants of health, transition, winter 2021 issue, young adults
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Over recent decades, late adolescence and young adulthood, generally the years 16 or 18 through 25, have emerged as a distinct developmental period in the human life span. In the mental health field, the term Transition Age Youth and Young Adults – TAYYA – has come to describe young people of...