Core Element Overview

As part of the assessment and ongoing treatment process, the Team engages the occupational therapist (OT) in a consultative screening, and together they develop a plan for the OT’s involvement going forward. This may include, but is not limited to, the OT providing a consultative assessment; recommendations to the family, Team, and Family Team; treatment and/or coaching to the family.

As agreed upon with the OT, the Team engages the OT to assist with assessing and addressing youth and family processing patterns and environmental and developmental factors that contribute to presenting concerns as well as developing individualized interventions that focus on establishing pro-social habits, such as healthy attachment, parenting skills and routines, using occupations of the family and of childhood to enhance and promote self-regulation and relaxation and developing strategies for managing symptoms that are associated with the use of problematic behaviors (e.g., stress, anger, anxiety). The Team may also coordinate with the OT to provide training/coaching to the Family Team to support their implementation of the occupational therapy recommendations.

The Team engages in an ongoing assessment of the need for psychiatric consultation with the Team and the Family Team. The Team consults with the psychiatry consultant as needed to assist with diagnosis, clinical formulation, and intervention planning, especially when addressing clinical complexities or when improvements have plateaued, or high-risk behaviors are present.

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