Program details

Assessment

Children can be referred for a discipline-specific or a multidisciplinary assessment.

The assessment may include: 

• psychiatry
• speech therapy
• psychology
• occupational therapy
• education
• family functioning

Assessment may be completed while a child is attending the recovery day program.

Recovery day program

The recovery day program provides intensive multidisciplinary therapeutic intervention to children. For up to two and a half days a week, children access a range of evidence-based individual and group mental health treatments.

Children may be supported with their:

• Social communication
• Regulation of emotions and behaviour
• Creative expression
• Coping and stress management
• Movement and physical activity

Primary school teachers also provide mental health-specific educational support and intervention.

Family based interventions

• Family therapy
• Therapeutic Intervention for Families (TCI-F) parenting group
• Dyadic (interactive) parent and child therapy
• Sibling focused therapy

Education support

• Liaison with home school
• Playground/classroom observations
• Academic assessment from a developmental and mental health point of view

Outreach

For some children an outreach treatment approach can be offered. This can include:

• Consultation from Pathways to children’s home and schools
• Specific therapeutic groups
• Specific individual therapies
• Family therapy
• TCI-F parenting program
• Liaison with other agencies as required