Eastern Oregon Children's Multi-Treatment Center – Unofficial Blog

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Eastern Oregon Children’s Multi-Treatment Center strives to provide excellence in regional, individualized, comprehensive, intensive assessment and treatment to psychologically disordered children and their families while the child is under our care. Treatment includes culturally responsive psychosocial services which promote insight, self-responsibility, healthy family relationships, moral stability, and social competence. EOCMTC’s primary therapeutic model is the cognitive behavioral approach which encourages each child to better understand him or herself as a person, learn to think through challenges, build strengths, and behaviorally practice solutions to personal, academic, familial, and interpersonal problems.

EOCMTC believes that:
1. The child with severe and multiple emotional problems has the right to a therapeutic process designed to increase their individual strengths encompassing their intellectual and creative awareness, developing internal behavioral controls, using effective problem solving techniques, and producing positive membership in their own community.

2. Challenging treatment issues are best addressed by a team of professionals, family and community members. This team uses innovative and creative interventions based on informed, pro-active and mutually agreed upon treatment interventions that are research driven and highly sensitive to client, family, culture, team, and community resources.

3. General systems (community systems) theory presents a valid organizing structure, a broader understanding of human needs, and a greater opportunity for the acceptance of the constancy of change.

4. Therapeutic services are guided by the need for stabilizing behavior and normalizing experiences aid in transitioning children back into their own family and community systems.

5. Children and their biological, adoptive, foster, and/or residential treatment parents are encouraged to assume active roles in the treatment planning process and delivery of services.

6. Cost-effectiveness is not a substitute but an adjunct to quality of service.

7. Restraint should be used only if the child is in danger of hurting himself or others in his surroundings.

8. Medication management is a vital and viable tool in meeting the needs of many of our children and is considered on an individual basis.