Professionals in Crisis Program

Treatment philosophy
Professionals in Crisis Program staff believes that each person should have treatment tailored to their needs. When significant problems occur, they affect several areas of a person’s life. Consequently, treatment can be most effective when it addresses medical, emotional, social and spiritual needs.

Understanding the whole person within the context of a patient’s life is crucial to a clear diagnostic understanding and the development of the patient’s individualized treatment plan. The treatment team looks at biological or inherited characteristics to the patient’s illness and assesses significant life events that affect the patient’s level of functioning. It addresses the person in context of his/her family, as well as the affect of occupational and cultural issues on his/her well-being. And the individual’s strengths, as well as liabilities, are assessed and explored.

For individuals with an addiction, the team believes that recovery implies more than freedom from the abuse and dependency of substances or addictive actions. In addition to sobriety, the goal of treatment is to help residents and their significant others to improve and maintain a good quality of life. The patient must attain and maintain health physically, socially emotionally and spiritually. Treatment at Menninger is designed to help determine how the balance and harmony of each aspect of a person’s health relates to the total quality of life for each person and those people who are close to her or him.

The Menninger treatment team approach brings together mental health professionals who provide the patient with the clinical expertise and perspectives needed to address difficult-to-treat and complex disorders and to assist the patient with their bio-psycho-social needs.

Most importantly, the program believes the patient is a core member of his/her treatment team and, as such, works as a team member to assess treatment goals, participate in treatment planning and to set up relapse prevention and discharge strategies.

Once the team has a diagnostic understanding of the patient, the team develops the treatment plan by prioritizing specific symptoms and creating an action plan that focuses on these symptoms as primary goals for treatment. The treatments and interventions specially ordered by the treatment team stress the importance of the development of healthy relationships with family, peers and work colleagues and the consolidation of a positive and realistic professional, social and self-identity. As the patient engages in treatment, the team assesses, reviews and revises the patient’s treatment plan to ensure that it continues to fit his/her needs.