The nurses have also been trained to provide behavioral treatment, and regularly assist in the delivery of these interventions. The counselors are responsible for the overall milieu management and work with the patients both individually and in groups to meet the expectations of their treatment contract and behavioral program. The counselors receive both individual and group supervision from the Program Manager and Associate Directors. The OCD Institute is developing a system which will be utilized to focus on positive outcomes through well defined and empirically monitored goals and objectives. Dr. Lee Baer, author of the book Getting Control, is serving as the program s technological consultant and is working on developing relapse prevention programs for patients who are discharged to help them maintain the gains they make in treatment and provide follow up outcome measures.
Patients have access to the networked program system, and use it to develop their weekly contracts.
All patients are given email accounts so that they can be in touch with their treators with questions or concerns. The program s clinical staff evaluate all patients for admission to the program. While many patients will require the most intensive residential level of care due to the severity of their symptoms, many may be able to use the program only during the day while residing elsewhere. The goal is to move patients to less acute levels of care as soon as they are able. The program is also able to provide home based behavioral therapy as either a step down from more intensive levels of care or in conjunction with the residential and day treatment program.