Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) For Mental Health

Your IHBT provider wants to meet where its most helpful to you! IHBT is a model that is designed to meet out of the office for instance at your home, at the school, or in the community—where it is convenient for you!

We know that planning several appointments a week can be really challenging for a family’s schedule. Our staff is dedicated to meeting with families at times that are convenient for them.

The goal of IHBT is to help families build skills and capacity to safely manage their child’s behaviors and moods in the home. IHBT will look different depending on the needs of the family. We will work with your child individually, but you can also expect us to including parents and other supports in the sessions and planning. This may include meeting with parents, family members, friends that feel like family, teachers and school staff, probation officers, doctors, or anyone else that you feel would be important for the well-being of your child.

We will strive to make a plan with you so there are no surprises when it comes to the services we provide. Some sessions may include topics such as safety planning, how to de-escalate situation that may be unsafe, finding resources in the community that help the family as a whole, helping your child have meaningful activities and relationships, or how to help your child manage their mental health diagnosis.

One of the most obvious differences is that we come to you! We want to intervene in the spaces where your child is struggling. Oftentimes, in office-based therapy, we are talking about or intervening in problems that have already happened. When we work on behaviors in the home or community, we can intervene right then and there. For instance, if your child is refusing to do their chores, your IHBT therapist can develop a plan with you and support you with implementing that plan in the home.

IHBT has been proven to: 

• Decrease out of home placement. Keep youth and their families together. 
• Decrease juvenile justice involvement. 
• Increase school success including increase in grades, reduction in school discipline  

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For more details, about IHBT visit IHBT Ohio.