Evidence-based Practices
Evidence-based practices are the foundation of our clinical work at Spurwink Services. These practices are interventions for which there is consistent, scientific evidence demonstrating that they improve outcomes and quality of life for individuals diagnosed with a mental illness. We are committed to improving the quality of mental health care, and ensuring consistently better and meaningful outcomes for the individuals and families we serve.
Our evidence-based practices include:
All Kinds of Minds/Schools Attuned
All Kinds of Minds (AKOM) is an organization that gathers information to ensure the latest advances in educational, psychological, and clinical research.
Schools Attuned program is based on applied research regarding neurodevelopmental variations in learning. This comprehensive professional program for K-12 supports students who are struggling due to learning differences to experience success in school.
Collaborative Problem Solving
Collaborative Problem Solving is a treatment model for children and adults with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. The goal is to use problems to be solved as opportunities to teach clients new skills. In residential facilities, this model is an effective way to reduce conflict and teach the skills children and adults need to function adaptively in the real world.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is based on the scientifically supported assumption that most emotional and behavioral reactions are learned. CBT therapists believe that clients change because they learn how to think differently and they act on that learning. The goal of CBT is to help clients unlearn their unwanted reactions and learn a new way of reacting.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment model designed specifically for clients with self-harm behaviors and suicidal thoughts and urges. As an empirically supported treatment, its most important goal is in helping clients create lives worth living. In DBT, therapists and clients work hard to balance change with acceptance by learning new behaviors at every individual session or skills group.
Functional Family Therapy
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a family-based prevention and intervention program. The program applies a comprehensive model, proven theory, empirically tested principles, and a wealth of experience to the treatment of at-risk youth. FFT is a multisystemic clinical program, which focuses not only on the individual but also on family functioning.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. This approach is more focused and goal-directed as the examination and resolution of ambivalence is its central purpose.
Picture Exchange Communication System
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was developed to teach children and adults with autism and other communication deficits to initiate communication. PECS has received worldwide recognition for its success with adolescents and adults who have a wide array of communicative, cognitive, and physical difficulties.
Social Communication Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support
Social Communication Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support (SCERTS) model is an innovative approach that offers a framework of specific goals and procedures for assessment and educational programming. SCERTS addresses the core challenges faced by children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The SCERTS model incorporates educational strategies derived from empirical research and sound clinical and educational practice.
Social Stories
Developed by Carol Gray, Social Stories has been used for many years to effectively share social information with children, adolescents, and adults with ASD who have communication delays and differences. The goal of Social Stories is not to change one’s behavior, but rather to improve the understanding of events and expectations, which may lead to responses that are more effective.
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI)
A crisis prevention and intervention model developed by Cornell University for understanding and managing children and adolescents with difficult behaviors. Through prevention strategies, behavior management and communication techniques, and non-confrontational limit-setting, TCI can prevent crises from occurring and provides strategies to effectively manage acute crises phases, reduce potential and actual injury to children and staff and provide constructive ways to handle stressful situations.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention designed to help children, youth and their parents overcome the negative effects of traumatic life events. TF-CBT model teaches children how to examine their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and how to change these in order to feel better.
|
