Your Child has a team.
Plum Tree Psychology is a group practice specializing in child & adolescent psychology. We have many therapists on staff that meet weekly with our doctors to discuss treatments plans, organize strategies, and refine techniques for your child. At Plum Tree, your child has a team of doctors and therapists working behind the scenes to help provide the best possible treatment.
We are one of few CBIT providers in Chicagoland
We provide CBIT (Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics). CBIT is used to treat Tourette’s. CBIT helps train our patients to be more aware of their tics, offer an alternative behavior when they feel the urge to tic, help provide activities to help the reduction of tics, and provide additional coping skills to help make their condition more manageable.
We hold weekly, grand rounds for a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care
Plum Tree Psychology conducts highly structured and documented clinical team meetings for clinic grand rounds. The team includes two licensed medical professionals, a pediatric neuropsychologist, a clinical psychologist, in addition to LCPC, LPCs, LCSWs and interns at various levels. Internal referrals for medication consults, psychological testing, parent support, and family support are then prioritized “in house.” A current patient will jump to the top of our list for augmented support/exploration, as identified in grand rounds. Patients benefit from a multidisciplinary team approach to care. The lead psychologist is a clinical specialist who involves herself on a case-by-case basis for patients who are complex or refractory in treatment, by way of free, limited screenings for various diagnosis and symptoms. This team approach supports treatment planning.
We have weekly ‘In-Service Education’ training for our therapists
Weekly ‘In-Service Education’ brings leaders/providers in ancillary fields in front of our staff to educate/train them. Overlapping disciplines, including occupational therapy, speech therapy, executive skills coaching, residential facility care, local IOP/PHP clinics, pediatric sleep specialists, developmental specialists, board-certified behavioral analysts, and the like help us know when/how to refer our patients for adjunctive treatment, and how we can build our repertoire of the most recent, evidence-based treatments.