What would be the first step to help my child?
Our first step together would involve a discussion with you and one of our staff members. This is important for two reasons. First, we'll need to get a handle on what issues your child is struggling with. Secondly, and most importantly, it is important that you take this time to see if you feel comfortable with us. You are about to make an incredibly important decision to entrust your child's psychological and behavioral health with us, and we want you to be 100% comfortable with the our staff.
Since each child's experience is unique, it would be hard to identify the form that our initial discussion will take. Ultimately, our focus during this first meeting is to identify what needs your child and your family have, and develop a general course of action to deal with these issues.
Our next step would involve meeting with your child. While some children would feel comfortable meeting with our staff alone, many others need the re-assurance of their parents to be close by. That decision will need to be made collectively based on the child's needs. The focus during this meeting will be to develop a diagnostic formulation and solidify a plan to deal with your child's issues. Often this plan will involve either Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or more often, a combination of elements of both types of interventions.
Since each child's experience is unique, it would be hard to identify the form that our initial discussion will take. Ultimately, our focus during this first meeting is to identify what needs your child and your family have, and develop a general course of action to deal with these issues.
Our next step would involve meeting with your child. While some children would feel comfortable meeting with our staff alone, many others need the re-assurance of their parents to be close by. That decision will need to be made collectively based on the child's needs. The focus during this meeting will be to develop a diagnostic formulation and solidify a plan to deal with your child's issues. Often this plan will involve either Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or more often, a combination of elements of both types of interventions.
What is applied behavior analysis?
It's sometimes so hard to understand why your child is acting in a particular way. It's made even worse when these actions can cause a lot of distress to your child as well as other around her or him. Applied behavior analysis or ABA is a set of scientifically based principles and procedures that can help you uncover why your child is experiencing these difficulties, and develop a plan to help your child improve their functioning in home and at school.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
You may have noticed that your child's thoughts, feelings and actions impact one another in ways that make it difficult for you to help your child. Cognitive behavior therapy helps children deal with the complexity of their thinking as well as how those thoughts affect their moods, feelings and behaviors throughout their day. Together, we can work with your child to help her or him understand how to manage and deal with their internal world so that they can be successful at home and in school and feel good in their lives.
What insurance policies does Livanis Behavioral Consulting currently accept?
Currently our service providers accept:
- Beacon Health(Value Options)
- NYS Empire Plan (including Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield)
- GHI
- Emblem Health (HMO & non HMO 7 Medicaid)
- MVP- (HMO and non HMO and Medicaid)
- Oscar Plan
With other insurance panels, we are considered out-of-network health care providers. As such, we encourage you to call your insurance company to inquire about their process for reimbursing you for behavioral health services. If your insurance company does cover out-of-network providers, you would want to ask the following questions, which will aid us in discussing the process for submitting the required documentation for reimbursement:
- Do I need to meet a certain deductible amount?
- At what rate will I be reimbursed?
- What documentation do I need to submit in order to be reimbursed?
- Does my provider need to contact the insurance company?