Comprehensive Care

Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Intensive Outpatient Program – Bahia’s comprehensive care program is structured to integrate an individual’s background/experiences, with psychological/medical research, theory, and best practices. This evidence-based strategy creates well developed clinical understanding and informed treatment decisions. Our method identifies a person’s relative deficits and strengths regarding health habits, coping styles, stress moderators, and treatment prognostics. Our integrated approach navigates health ‘conversations’ and ‘capabilities’ with service members, dependents, command, military medicine and community care systems.

Structure and Schedule

  • Frequency and Duration: Attend treatment sessions several times a week. The overall duration of the program can vary but commonly lasts for 8 to 12 weeks.
  • Flexible Scheduling: Morning, afternoon, and telehealth sessions to accommodate participants’ schedules.

Components of Treatment

  • Individual Therapy: One-on-one sessions with a therapist to address personal issues, develop coping strategies, and set goals.
  • Group Therapy: Group sessions are a core component, providing peer support, facilitating interpersonal learning, and fostering a sense of community.
  • Family Therapy: Services may include family therapy to address dynamics and improve communication within the family unit.
  • Psychoeducation: Educational sessions about mental health, substance abuse, coping skills, relapse prevention, and other relevant topics.
  • Skills Development: Training in practical skills such as stress management, emotional regulation, and problem-solving.

Types of Issues Addressed

  • Mental Health Disorders: Treatment can address conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and PTSD.

Benefits

  • Flexibility: Allows participants to continue with their daily lives, maintaining employment, education, and family responsibilities.
  • Cost-Effective: Generally less expensive than inpatient treatment, making it more accessible for many individuals.
  • Community Support: Offers a supportive environment and fosters connections with others facing similar challenges.

Suitability

  • Step-Down Care: Often used as a step-down level of care for individuals transitioning from inpatient treatment, providing ongoing support as they reintegrate into daily life.
  • Alternative to Inpatient Care: Suitable for individuals who do not require 24-hour supervision but need more intensive support than traditional outpatient therapy.

Challenges

  • Commitment: Requires a significant time commitment, which can be challenging for individuals with demanding schedules.
  • Consistency: Success depends on the participant’s consistency and engagement in the program.
  • External Triggers: Participants remain in their usual environments, which may expose them to triggers and stressors that can complicate recovery.

Psychology

Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy – This treatment modality creates a supportive patient-centered experience providing in-depth personal contact and diagnosis-specific content. Participants gain the opportunity for confidential discussion regarding personal health concerns. Treatment of anxiety, depression, insomnia, mood disorders, psychosis, delirium, alcohol/drug misuse, cognitive decline/dementia, social role changes, bereavement, grief & loss, sexual functioning, activities of daily living, women’s issues, relationship issues, stress, sexual addiction. Our psychologists with advanced training in psychopharmacology may also consult on medication options and its management.

Family Therapy

Family Therapy – To a large extent, children’s problems are embedded in overall family context. The child is shaped by family and school, and in turn the family and school is shaped by the child. Therefore it is important to intervene with the child’s problems addressing the family and school systems. Cognitive and behavioral therapy applied to environmental factors effectively manage various aspects of the child’s life. Respondent principles (behavior is acquired through classical conditioning) or respondent principles (behavior is maintained by its consequences) can easily be applied by parents and teachers alike as part of the therapeutic plan. Examples of problems commonly addressed by our child and family specialists include; Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), conduct disorders, child fears, school withdrawal, Anorexia, Bulimia, Autism, Schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, depression, enuresis/encopresis, and tics.

Psychiatry

Psychiatry – Medication can have a therapeutic effect on mood, sensation, thinking, and behavior. Our specialist providers prescribe psychotropic medications to treat emotional/behavioral disorders. Our psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, physician associates and advanced practice psychologists who are involved in the practice of psychopharmacology provide diagnostic assessments, medication/drug therapy or medication recommendation (psychologists), medication management, and medical consultations with primary care physicians. We work closely with our psychotherapists to provide optimal coordinated care through direct communication and team meetings

In addition to providing unified psychiatric care at our clinic, our psychiatric providers can provide the following services:

  • Stand-alone psychiatric care for patients who do not want or need to see a therapist
  • Patients who already have a therapist of their own in the community but who want to see a psychiatrist
  • Laboratory testing for expert and safe prescribing
  • Genetic testing to assess for the appropriateness of certain medications
  • Coordination with other medical providers for conditions that impact mental health
  • Military-Informed Medication Management – understanding the impact of medication on the suitability of certain military specialties
  • Close collaboration with psychologists and psychotherapy

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive procedure used to stimulate nerve cells in the brain. It involves the use of magnetic fields to generate small electric currents in specific regions of the brain. By targeting specific areas of the brain, TMS can modulate neural activity and potentially alleviate symptoms. TMS is an FDA cleared treatment for depression and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) when other interventions have not been successful.. This technique is considered safe and well-tolerated, offering an alternative intervention in mental health disorders and is covered by Tricare.

Psychological Evaluation

Psychological Evaluation – This premium assessment service incorporates skilled clinical interview with objective testing data to enhance structure and increase reliability/accuracy in clinical/legal situations for children, adults, and elders. Psychological/neuropsychological testing supports clinical and legal rationale for understanding the experience of neurodevelopmental disorders, medical disorders, parameters of policy/law/ethics, intelligence, learning disorders, personality disorders, maladaptive coping, brain injury, dementia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and ADHD.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies (e.g. video conferencing) in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to our services. At this time, Tricare is still covering telemedicine visits.