Doing things different and bridging the gaps in treatment
People who experience psychiatric symptoms often need more than one provider. They may see a therapist, a psychiatrist, someone for vocational help, and may attend a day treatment program, clubhouse, or partial hospitalization program. Too often, their providers communicate with one another minimally, or not at all. In such cases, each of a client’s concerns is treated as something isolated, unrelated to other parts of his or her life. At Prakash and Ellenhorn, we bridge this gap in treatments. We use a “single-source” model of care delivery, serving our client from a single, highly coordinated multidisciplinary team. Doing so, we integrate all of a client’s treatment needs into a “whole person” approach.
Prakash and Ellenhorn bridges another important gap in treatment. Psychiatric services are often starkly divided by the intensity of care offered. At one extreme, psychiatric patients seek 24-hour arrangements in psychiatric hospitals or half-way houses, where they are removed from their friends, families, jobs or school. At the other extreme, psychiatric patients only receive outpatient treatment in office-based settings, but lack minimal support in times of crisis, and generally have to fend for themselves on a daily basis. We bridge the gap between these two extremes by providing individualized services appropriately tailored in intensity to the shifting needs of our clients. Our Multidisciplinary team, which offers outreach services to clients in the community 24 hours a day, is like a hospital or residential program “without walls”, responding to our clients’ needs with a flexible team approach.
