The mission of the Intensive Outpatient Programs at Mental Health Resources, PLLC is to provide cost effective, high quality mental health treatment in the least restrictive setting to psychologically distressed or substance abusing individuals. MHR’s IOPs were developed expressly for the purpose of accommodating the trends toward reduced hospital stays and providing an intensive therapy in an outpatient setting. We are committed to preventing hospitalization and treating the individual in their natural environment, if the patient can be safely treated in an outpatient setting. Most individuals who enter IOP do so in the midst of a crisis and require frequent, intensive, contact. To meet this need, we have daily immediate urgent appointments set aside for immediate assessment and crisis intervention.
Our IOP's consists of less than three hours of psychology based treatment programming per day, conducted in our private offices. Our IOP provides traditional group psychotherapy, skills training, and focused psycho-educational groups led by licensed therapists and counselor’s that are designed to meet the needs of the individuals in treatment. Additionally, we may supplement IOP with other treatment modalities available in the Memphis area, such as individual, couples or family therapy, support groups, church, AA, Al-Anon, Nar-Anon, etc. While we have psychiatrists on staff, we honor all existing treatment relationships with external providers and strive to coordinate your care with any treating providers, including those prescribing psychiatric medication. We recognize that our treatment program is only one of many in Memphis and that others may be better suited for particular individuals requiring services beyond our scope (e.g., those who need detoxification, are in imminent danger, severely mentally ill, require hospitalization, etc.). When necessary, we will draw upon these other resources in Memphis to aid us in meeting our stated objectives.
Our IOP is the only one in Memphis that is based on sound scientific principles, using evidence based treatment, in a private practice, office based setting. We are also the only psychology based program in Memphis that has proven outcomes, which have passed the rigor of peer review, and been published in scientific and clinical publications. Our outcomes have been published in peer reviewed journals published by the American Psychological Association, including the American Psychologist; Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice; Professional Psychology: Research and Practice; Journal of Dual Diagnosis, as well as in the multidisciplinary journal, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and in the Behavioral Outcomes and Guidelines Sourcebook. A description of our IOP also appeared in the American Psychiatric Association’s journal, Psychiatric Services. See our download page for copies of some of these articles. |
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