Functional Family Therapy (FFT) 

Louisiana Behavioral Health Services utilize FFT to assist families to achieve their goals. FFT is a therapeutic model that is evidence based and is used in helping youth and their families to overcome behavior challenges in the home and community. 

Target Behaviors

• Antisocial behaviors or acts 

• Violent behaviors 

• Other behaviors that impair functioning 

• Disruptive behavior disorders such as 

  - Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD)

  - Oppositional defiant disorder 

  - Conduct disorder 

• Anxiety/Depression may be accepted  

• Youth with substance use disorders may be accepted Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) 

Substance Use Disorders 

Our addiction services are based upon the precepts that the community and family are two of the most powerful institutions. The principle of the primacy of the family, family empowerment, and usage of multiple community resources is reflected in the treatment provided. The expected outcome for our clients is for them to remain in the least restrictive and least intrusive environment throughout their care. It is expected that our clients should be able to live culturally competent lives. Our multi-disciplinary system and programming allows us to help our clients achieve these goals. 

Things to Know

• Ages 10-18 

• At least one adult caregiver must be available to provide support and be involved in treatment 

• A DSM-5 diagnosis is primary focus of treatment 

• Functional impairment cannot solely be the result of an autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability 

• Youth displays externalizing behavior which adversely affects family functioning and/or other functioning systems 

• Documented medical necessity for an intensive in-home service 

• Youth receives FFT services for approximately 3 to 5 months 

• The counselor works with the family 12-15 sessions lasting one to two hours 

• Sessions could occur daily or weekly 

• Services are provided in the office or in the family's home or community 

Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) 

Substance Use Disorders 

Our addiction services are based upon the precepts that the community and family are two of the most powerful institutions. The principle of the primacy of the family, family empowerment, and usage of multiple community resources is reflected in the treatment provided. 

The expected outcome for our clients is for them to remain in the least restrictive and least intrusive environment throughout their care. It is expected that our clients should be able to live culturally competent lives. Our multi-disciplinary system and programming allows us to help our clients achieve these goals. 

Things to Know 

• Services are provided to anyone ages 14 and over who suffers with an addiction such as alcohol, other drugs, gambling and sex. 

• Services are provided in a treatment setting. Treatment occurs based upon individual needs, which includes: 

  1. An initial assessment 

  2. A minimum of six weeks of intensive therapy and transitional therapy 

Mental Health Rehabilitation(MHR) Services

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) 

Psychosocial rehabilitation (also termed psychiatric rehabilitation or PSR) promotes personal recovery, successful community integration and satisfactory quality of life for persons who have a mental illness or mental health concern. Psychosocial rehabilitation services and supports are collaborative, person directed, and individualized, and an essential element of the human services spectrum. They focus on helping individuals develop skills and access resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in the living, working, learning and social environments of their choice and include a wide continuum of services and supports. 

PSR approaches are evidence-based best and promising practices in the key life domains of Employment, Education, Leisure, Wellness and Basic Living Skills as well as Family Involvement and Peer Support and Peer Delivered services. Because of their demonstrated effectiveness and recovery orientation, these approaches should be widely available to people living with long term mental illness and/or substance use problems. 

Distinctive and defining features of PSR approaches 

PSR approaches build upon the assessed strengths of persons rather than their deficits and problems. In other words PSR approaches are strengths based--they are based on the assessment of a person's strengths as the basis for individualized goal setting and recovery. This is a major difference from traditional, illness-based approaches which focus on problems and deficits. 

Psychosocial rehabilitation approaches are collaborative; person directed and individualized. They assist individuals in rediscovering skills and accessing the community resources needed to live successfully and with a self-identified quality of life. Accordingly, PSR approaches involve the client setting goals rather than goals being set by others. 

PSR approaches support people to have a meaningful life focus on the determinants of good mental health, including employment, education, social supports, basic living skills, leisure and wellness. 

PSR approaches generally place persons in their chosen goal settings such as jobs and housing and then train and support them in those settings. Similarly, other training, such as social skills training takes place in the person's natural environments. 

PSR approaches are supported by scientific evidence as effective. PSR approaches include a number of best practices, which are strongly supported by evidence, such as supported employment and wellness programs, as well as promising practices with emerging evidence, such as peer support programs. PSR approaches promote recovery with full community living and improved quality of life. Some call this "getting a life”. 

Community Psychiatric Supports Treatment (CPST)

Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment (CPST) are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the individual's recovery plan. CPST addresses specific individual needs with evidence-based and evidence-informed psychotherapeutic practices designed specifically to meet those needs. CPST is provided face-to-face with the individual present; however, family or other persons significant to the individual may also be involved. 

CPST may include the following components 

Assist the individual to identify strategies or treatment options associated with the individual's mental illness and/or substance use disorder, with the goal of minimizing the negative effects of symptoms, emotional disturbances, or associated environmental stressors which interfere with the individual's daily living, financial management, housing, academic and/or employment progress, personal recovery or resilience, family and/or interpersonal relationships, and. community integration; 

Provide individual supportive counseling, solution-focused interventions, emotional and behavioral management support, and behavioral analysis, to develop and implement social, interpersonal, self-care, daily living, and independent living skills to restore stability, support functional gains, and adapt to community living. 

Facilitate participation in and utilization of strengths-based planning and treatments which include identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports, and developing goals and objectives. 

Assist the individual with effectively responding to or avoiding triggers, identifying a crisis situations, and developing a crisis management plan.

Evidence Based Programs