| When should you consider therapeutic | | | | emotional mood swings, behavioral outbursts of |
| interventions? This question haunts many people | | | | extreme anger in school, chronic truancy, |
| for the simple fact that intervention services | | | | antisocial behavior/difficulty making friends, |
| aren't generally covered by health insurance plans. | | | | patterns of excessive risk taking that endangers |
| Therefore, the question is not only a matter of, | | | | his or her life, chronic listlessness or depression. |
| "Will this work?" But it is also a question of, "Can | | | | Research suggests that even preschoolers can |
| we afford this not to work?" Since counseling is | | | | benefit from certain types of behavioral |
| so contingent upon the intervention | | | | intervention. |
| specialist-patient relationship, it sometimes takes a | | | | For children as young as three years old, the |
| few different specialists to yield results. | | | | early childhood intervention program usually |
| Today, therapeutic interventions are used in all | | | | centers on play therapy. By encouraging |
| sorts of cases, such as for misbehaving toddlers, | | | | storytelling, painting, drama creation, using puppets |
| abused children, adolescents with behavioral | | | | and other free-expression activities, therapists can |
| disorders, elderly patients with degenerative | | | | uncover the root of the child's trouble and help |
| diseases and people suffering middle-aged obesity. | | | | them express themselves in a healthy, creative |
| The end goal of intervention programs is to | | | | manner. |
| inspire people to make the necessary changes to | | | | Researchers say the younger the child at the |
| take control of their own lives again. | | | | time of the therapeutic intervention, the better! |
| Treating mental/emotional disorders is one | | | | Long-term therapy has shown to have an impact |
| common use for a therapeutic intervention. In | | | | on the biology of the brain, influencing the amount |
| some cases, a brief intervention of 20 meetings | | | | and type of neurotransmitters released. |
| will be enough to get someone out of their funk. | | | | In some cases, developmental disorders are |
| Other times, those suffering from chronic | | | | treated with therapeutic interventions. Physical |
| patterns of behavior will require ongoing therapy. | | | | therapy, occupational therapy and |
| During the meetings, patients will undergo | | | | speech-language therapy are common |
| relaxation training/stress management, couples | | | | intervention techniques for these patients. |
| family counseling, individual cognitive and behavioral | | | | Children, teens or adults with Cerebral Palsy, |
| therapy, biofeedback training and work group | | | | Down Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, |
| education assistance. | | | | Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity |
| Whether a person suffers from ADHD, Bipolar | | | | Disorder (ADHD), Prematurity, Fetal Alcohol |
| Disorder, anxiety or depression, a therapeutic | | | | Syndrome (FAS), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), |
| intervention can provide the groundwork for | | | | Developmental Delay, Spina Bifida, Failure to |
| change. Homework assignments encourage clients | | | | Thrive, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Meningitis, |
| to apply the lessons they've learned in therapy. | | | | Genetic Disorders and Craniofacial Anomalies may |
| Sometimes, young children require therapeutic | | | | all benefit from the interpersonal support offered |
| interventions. Perhaps the child has extremely | | | | by an intervention specialist. |