Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) like Family Service & Guidance Center are required to provide evidence-based practices to the individuals and families they serve.

Evidence-based practices are methods or approaches that are grounded in rigorous scientific research and evidence. The goal is to use the best available evidence to make informed decisions and improve outcomes. Furthermore, the focus is on the person within his or her environment, not on their symptoms or diagnosis.

Family Service & Guidance Center’s trained, dedicated professionals provide a broad range of evidence-based practices to those we serve, including:

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): Addresses the mental health needs of children, adolescents and families suffering from the destructive effects of early trauma.
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Problematic Sexualized Behavior (PSB): A family-based treatment that can help children and adolescents who have experienced trauma from various events, including problematic sexual behavior (PSB).
• Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy: Designed specifically for young children to help them change the thinking behind their behavior through play.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps people manage problems by changing how they think and behave.
• Evidence-Based Mental Health Assessment for Abused Youth (EBA): Uses research and theory to help mental health professionals select assessment targets, methods and measures as well as the assessment process itself. EBA can also help mental health professionals identify treatment goals and strategies.
• Exposure and Response/Ritual Prevention (ERP): A type of therapy that involves gradually exposing an individual to situations or things that trigger anxiety or compulsions in a safe environment. The individual learns strategies and techniques to prevent their usual problematic response.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Individuals learn that all emotions, thoughts, memories and physical feelings – pleasurable or not – are part of life. Avoiding painful emotions and memories simply prolongs suffering. ACT teaches individuals to accept painful experiences and allow them to pass by, redirecting their focus from the pain to what is actually meaningful to them.
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): A type of talk therapy for people who experience emotions very intensely. It helps them understand how thoughts affect emotions and behaviors.
• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): Based on the idea that emotions are a key part of identity and can guide decision making.
• Emotional Freedom Technique: A method for managing emotions and troubling thoughts. It can also be used to decrease stress and anxiety.
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR involves moving one’s eyes a specific way while the individuals processes traumatic memories with the goal of healing.
• Theraplay: Builds and enhances attachment, self-esteem, trust in others and joyful engagement. It is based on the natural patterns of playful, healthy interaction between parent and child.
• AUTplay: AUTplay combines play therapy with psychological therapy and utilizes a partnership between parents and the therapist. The goal is to foster a better relationship between the parent and child.
• Structural Family Therapy (SFT): Focuses on family interactions and dynamics to improve communication and encourage changes to the family’s structure
• Family Systems Therapy: Treats the family as a unit, focusing on the relationships, dynamics and patterns that exist within it.
• Interpersonal Therapy: A highly structured, time-limited therapy that centers on resolving interpersonal problems and recovering from symptoms.
• Motivational Interviewing – Trans Theoretical Stages of Change (MI): An intervention used to elicit a person’s own motivation to change unhealthy behaviors.
• Living in Balance (Hazeldon Curriculum): A 12-step program designed to help individuals better connect the parts of their lives that become disjointed by substance use disorders (SUD).
• Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT): An approach in which a combination of medication and therapy are used to successfully treat substance use disorders and, if appropriate, prevent or reduce opioid overdose.
• Seeking Safety: A treatment that helps people with trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders.
• Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders (IT-COD) Program: A treatment model that combines mental health and substance use professionals into a single treatment plan.
• Mental Health First Aid (MHFA): An early intervention course that teaches participants about mental health and substance use challenges as well as how to help individuals in crisis connect with helpful resources.
• Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR): Teaches clinicians and other healthcare professionals who conduct suicide risk assessments how to determine the level of suicide risk for an individual.
• Conscious Discipline Curriculum: Uses everyday life events to teach children and adults self-control, conflict resolution, character development and social skills. It’s based on the idea that adults should structure environments instead of trying to control children.
• Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE Training): Seeks to increase positive child-adult interaction, child compliance and child engagement. CARE is for any adult working with children or teens to improve relationships and reduce mild-to-moderate behavior challenges.
• PAX tools: A collection of trauma-informed, proven behavioral strategies for families to promote the development of self-regulation in their children.