Common use of Individual and Group Counseling Clause in Contracts

Individual and Group Counseling. Contacts between a beneficiary and a therapist or counselor. Services are provided in-person or by telephone qualify as Medi-Cal reimbursable units of service, and are reimbursed without distinction. Group counseling is described in the DMC-ODS STCs as a face-to-face contact in which one or more therapists or counselors treat two or more clients at the same time with a maximum of 12 in the group, focusing on the therapeutic SUD treatment needs of the individuals served. • Patient Education: Provide research-based education on addiction, treatment, recovery, and associated health risks • Family Therapy: The effects of addiction are far-reaching and patient’s family members and loved ones also are affected by the disorder. By including family members in the treatment process, education about factors that are important to the patient’s recovery, as well as their own recovery, can be conveyed. Family members can provide social support to the patient, help motivate their loved one to remain in treatment, and receive help and support for their own family recovery as well. • Safeguarding Medications: Facilities will store all resident medication and facility staff members may assist with resident’s self-administration of medication. • Collateral Services: Sessions with therapists or counselors and significant persons in the life of the beneficiary, focused on the treatment needs of the beneficiary in terms of supporting the achievement of the beneficiary’s treatment goals. Significant persons are individuals that have a personal, not official or professional, relationship with the beneficiary. • Crisis Intervention Services: Contact between a therapist or counselor and a beneficiary in crisis. Services shall focus on alleviating crisis problems. “Crisis” means an actual relapse or an unforeseen event or circumstance which presents to the beneficiary an imminent threat of relapse. Crisis intervention services shall be limited to the stabilization of the beneficiary’s emergency situation. •

Individual and Group Counseling. Contacts between a beneficiary and a therapist or counselor. Services are provided in-person or by telephone qualify as Medi-Cal reimbursable units of service, and are reimbursed without distinction. Group counseling is described in the DMC-ODS STCs as a face-to-face contact in which one or more therapists or counselors treat two or more clients at the same time with a maximum of 12 in the group, focusing on the therapeutic SUD treatment needs of the individuals served. • distinction  Patient Education: Provide research-based education on addiction, treatment, recovery, and associated health risks •  Family Therapy: The effects of addiction are far-reaching and patient’s family members and loved ones also are affected by the disorder. By including family members in the treatment process, education about factors that are important to the patient’s recovery, as well as their own recovery, can be conveyed. Family members can provide social support to the patient, help motivate their loved one to remain in treatment, and receive help and support for their own family recovery as well. •  Safeguarding Medications: Facilities will store all resident medication and facility staff members may assist with resident’s self-administration of medication. •  Collateral Services: Sessions with therapists or counselors and significant persons in the life of the beneficiary, focused on the treatment needs of the beneficiary in terms of supporting the achievement of the beneficiary’s treatment goals. Significant persons are individuals that have a personal, not official or professional, relationship with the beneficiary. •  Crisis Intervention Services: Contact between a therapist or counselor and a beneficiary in crisis. Services shall focus on alleviating crisis problems. “Crisis” means an actual relapse or an unforeseen event or circumstance which presents to the beneficiary an imminent threat of relapse. Crisis intervention services shall be limited to the stabilization of the beneficiary’s emergency situation. •