In-Home Therapy (IHT)

Practice Profile Overview

In-home therapy (IHT) is a structured, strengths-based, collaborative therapeutic relationship among a clinical team, a youth, and the youth’s family, developed to treat the youth’s behavioral health needs. The IHT Practice Profile describes the nine core elements of IHT practice. For each core element, a detailed document describes ideal, developmental, and unacceptable practices at the level of “saying and doing.”

The IHT Practice Profile is a “co-created” product that is the result of a collaboration by the CBH Knowledge Center and MassHealth’s Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative in partnership with seasoned IHT practitioners from across the Commonwealth and representatives from MassHealth’s Managed Care Entities. Relevant research literature also informed the content within each core element. The IHT Practice Profile can be used to engage system partners, for staff selection and recruitment activities, and to support ongoing training and staff development activities.