Consultations
AlessiCEBS provides consultations in several areas for both individuals, clinical and professional, and for corporations.
Individuals - Clinical
Second opinions: We offer consultations who are looking for second opinions about diagnoses made on themselves or their children. Why might someone want a second opinion? You might not agree with the opinion, diagnosis or treatment offered by your care provider. Possibly you have seen them for a long time and there is no progress and they do not have any new ideas? Both Dr. Alessi and Ms. McCaslin have worked in the area of mental health forover 30 years each. Not to say that your care provider may be wrong but maybe they lack the experience or maybe they didn't or don't spend the time you think is necessary for you to feel comfortable with the care they provide. If asked to provide a second opinion we hope to do this with your current treatment professional.
Educational Consulting: Ms. McCaslin can work with families and other health professionals and mental health agencies in locating placements for adolescents and young adults that need more intensive care than found in out patient settings, day treatment programs or short term hospitalizations. she can work with you to find the est placement in emotional growth programs, therapeutic boarding schools, and/or residential treatment settings. She works closely to find the setting and with the family after the adolescent is placed and if requested after they return home. A psychiatric evaluation can be provided by Dr. Alessi and psychiaric follow-up care for medications can be provided by Dr. Alessi as well.
School consultations: We can provide for a family an assessment of the child or adolescent in their classroom. This can be as simple as a call to their teacher and school special education program, or someone can visit the school and observe the child or adolescent in their classroom. A meeting with the school professionals can result from this assessment.
Individuals - Professional
Second opinions: We offer second opinions on difficult cases where you have not seen progress. Medication regiment may not be effective or there may be a lack of clarity concerning a diagnosis or symptom. Any of these situations warrant a second opinion.
Supervision: We offer supervision to all mental health professionals in the areas of individual and family psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, case conceptualization, treatment planning, and parental guidance. Also, offered to psychiatrists is career and professional development guidance.
Corporations
Juvenille Offender Program: AlessiCEBS has a team that can work with a juvenille offender program to assess there level of functioning in reagrd to the integration of mental health services . The team includes Dr. Tony Rome, over 25 years experience involved with the administration of mental health services in correctional institutions and currently involved in the development of an integrated mental health correctional program for juvenille offenders; Ms. Diane McGhee, over 30 years of experience in the development and administration of juvenille correctional programs in the state of Michigan and currently the clinical service director at Maxey Boys Training School; and, Dr. Norman Alessi, over 30 years of experience in academic child and adolescent psychiatry and was the director of the child and adolescent inpatient program for over 20 years. Over 25 years ago Dr. Alessi participted in a study that demonstrated the presence of severe mental illnesses among juvenile youth using what were then structured diagnostic instruments. This fact has been born out by a number of studies that followed. Working as a team we can review your program and provide as little recommendations about the current functional operation to a complete evaluation and recommendations including procedures, standards of operationand training for the personnel.
Telepsychiatry: Dr. Alessi can provide an institutional consultation to any mental health system as to the best approach of starting a telepsychiatry program. This can involve a single practitioner or a complete healthcare system. Issues of technology, reimbursement, integration with other care strategies can be dealt with.