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Employment Services are integral to the DMHAS’ goal of offering a recovery-oriented system of care for persons in recovery who experience behavioral health conditions.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for Recovery
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based practice that uses a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive services to address the needs of persons with serious behavioral health issues and other co-morbid disorders.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps individuals to understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors.
Twelve-step facilitation is an active engagement strategy designed to increase the likelihood of an individual becoming affiliated with and actively involved in 12-step self-help groups.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Motivational interviewing is a style of consumer-centered counseling developed to facilitate change in behaviors. The core principle of the approach is negotiation rather than conflict.
DMHAS Latino Outreach provides regional, community outreach services designed to reduce the stigma that surrounds substance use in the Latino community and to identify Latinos who have a substance use disorder for which they are not seeking treatment, or who are at risk of having a substance use disorder for which they are not likely to seek treatment.
Supported Education Services are integral to the DMHAS’ goal of offering a recovery-oriented system of care for persons in recovery who experience behavioral health conditions.
Community Support Program (CSP)
Community Support Program (CSP) consists of mental health and substance use rehabilitation services and supports necessary to assist an individual in achieving and maintaining the highest degree of independent functioning.