Children’s Therapeutic Services And Supports (CTSS)
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What is CTSS?
CTSS, or Children’s Therapeutic Services and Supports, is a flexible package of mental health services provided to children and their families.
CTSS addresses the symptoms of emotional disturbance that impair and/or interfere with an individual’s ability to function at a typical developmental level.
The services are time limited and are delivered using a combination of services designed to reach the goals outlined by the individual therapist.
CTSS services are provided by mental health professionals and practitioners, in-home, school, or other community setting.
Issues addressed through CTSS may include:
Behavior management
Implementing structure
Improving parent-child relationships
Adjusting to recent life changes
Anxiety management
Improved social behavior
Conflict resolution
Problem solving
What Services Are Covered?
Psychotherapy
Face to face treatment of client’s mental health issues
Quality, proven interventions to address the child’s concerns
Crisis Assistance
Recognition of factors that come before the mental health crisis
Identification of behaviors related to the crisis
Education about available resources to resolve the crisis
Support to resolve crisis situation
Skills Training
Skills training is designed to assist the client in reaching behavioral developmental milestones.
Skills are defined as activities or behaviors that must be practiced in order to be mastered and maintained.
Skills can be adapted to many different situations.
To be eligible for CTSS, the child or adolescent must be:
Have a primary diagnosis of an emotional disturbance (ED) for children and adolescents under 18 or mental illness (MI) for young adults 18-20
In need of rehabilitative mental health services to address their mental health needs, as documented in their diagnostic assessment