A Diagnostic Interview serves as the cornerstone of our intensive outpatient services. This process is conducted by our trained clinician’s and includes symptomatology, behavioral observations/mental status/biopsychosocial history. This clinical data is part of our comprehensive system assessment that guides personalized treatment planning.

The Functional Assessment in our program focuses on understanding individuals’ daily life in the context of work, family, relationships and self.   It may include emotionality, memory and cognition, psychosocial and behavioral issues, communication, and physiological response to stress (e.g., pain, energy), or general health status.

The Bahia Health IOP adapts psychometric assessment to enhance the quality of clinical data. The utility of psychometric assessment includes:

Our psychometric evaluation includes:

The BSI identifies self-reported clinically relevant psychological symptoms. The BSI provides an overview of a patient’s symptoms and their intensity at a specific point in time.

Benefits include:

The MCMI®-IV overtly conceptualizes personality patterns on a continuum, or spectrum, ranging from adaptive to maladaptive levels of functioning. The MCMI-IV personality patterns, or scale spectrums, capture the patient’s broad range of personality by way of three levels of personality functioning:

MCMI-IV provides helpful clinical insights into a patient’s personality that allow clinicians to make reliable diagnostic and treatment decisions.

Benefits are:

Bahia’s IOP embraces the view that assessment and treatment of mental disorders are best understood in the context of personality or coping functioning.

Values are concepts that orient a person to what is personally meaningful and important to them.  They affect our attitudes, preferences, overt behaviors. Setting values-based goals gives insight about self/others and enables action towards values. Setting values-based goals can boost positive emotions and encourage an optimistic outlook.

As part of the setting value base goals clinicians work with patients to reconcile goals.

Goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. SMART Goals:

Creating an environment that is safe and amenable to making changes.

After identifying pts identified purposeful/valued/practical goals we ask about benefits of making change.  This method inquiries discrepancy in action around goal achievement and discusses next steps toward their attainment. This process allows for goal discovery, ownership and motivation increasing the likelihood of achievement.