The type of child therapy administered depends, to some extent, on the age of the child.
Young kids often show how they feel and handle their problems through their behavior. That’s why play therapy and art therapy are great tools when it comes to working with them, allowing them to express themselves in a productive way.
For school-aged kids and adolescents, it usually becomes easier to express their worries and feelings verbally. In such cases, talk therapy is a suitable option.
Whichever approach is used, the goal of treatment is to relieve the child, adolescent, and family of discomfort or suffering. Some forms of childhood difficulties are: anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, peer pressure, academic problems, results of sexual or other physical or emotional abuse, or other trauma.
CrossEssence Mental Healthcare has a variety of services available for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 0-26) and their families.
After an assessment, our clinician will discuss with the youth and family the program and services that will best meet their needs.
Outpatient Mental Health:
to help people cope with current stressors in order to minimize the impact on their daily lives.
Substance Use Services:
provided in an individualized manner with an assessment to determine the possible presence of mental health issues.
School-Based Services:
to serve those children that may benefit most from learning skills in the school environment, have a need for coordination and planning with school personnel, and those who would not otherwise be engaged in traditional outpatient services.
Wraparound Services (WA):
to help youth and families with multisystem involvement develop a holistic, comprehensive, and organized delivery of services to ensure better outcomes.
Intensive Family Services (IFS):
to help youth and families when there are multiple needs socially, emotionally, and behaviorally.
Transition to Independence Process (TIP):
to improve outcomes relevant to employment/career, educational opportunities, living situation, personal effectiveness and well-being, and community life-functioning for youth ages 16-26 and their families.
Services offered in the various programs include, but are not limited to assessment, coordination, and integration of care, care planning, linking to resources, safety planning, crisis intervention, skill development, counseling/therapy (individual/family/group), parenting skills, family-to-family support, peer-to-peer support, housing, employment, supervised visitation, psychiatric assessment, medication monitoring, and transition planning. Depending on the program, these services may be offered in the office, home, school, and/or community setting.
It is important for parents and caregivers to seek help for their child or adolescent if they are experiencing any of these difficulties to ensure that they receive the support and treatment they need to thrive.