Learn how you can cut down on rapport-building time, make your services accessible to more people, and put your consumers at ease during treatment by offering in-home and natural community-based behavioral health services. This book examines the impact that the environment can have on the comfort level, perception, ability to connect, and general mindset of consumers during treatment.
Key Features
- Explores home and natural community-based services for all ages.
- Demonstrates implementation in remote, rural, and underserved areas.
- Provides a detailed map of benefits, challenges, and proposed solutions.
- Focuses on keeping families together in their own community.
Additional Information
Home and natural community-based services have the potential to help adults, youth, and children live in their own homes and natural communities with specific supports in place that can address their behavioral health needs. Lynne Rice Westbrook examines these treatment settings from the most restrictive to the least restrictive, and demonstrates how such services can be implemented to bring coverage to remote, rural, and underserved areas. This book provides the steps professionals need to take in order to help change the tapestry of behavioral health provision one home, one healing at a time.
