About the Family Interaction Skills Clinic (FISC)
The Family Interaction Skills Clinic (FISC) is designed to provide specialized psychological assessment and treatment services to families with children ranging in age from infancy through adolescence. Through individualized services, group therapy projects, and consultation and evaluation services, FISC therapists help clients address a variety of problems families have in promoting healthy emotional, behavioral, and social growth for their children. Therapists are doctoral students in clinical psychology who are supervised by licensed clinical psychologists.

Individualized Services
Therapists provide state-of-the-art assessment and treatment for children and their families. Individualized services address child/adolescent behavioral and emotional problems, problems with parent-child communication, and the consequences of child maltreatment and domestic violence. Fees for services are available on a sliding scale based on the client’s ability to pay.

Common Problems

• Parent/Child Conflict
  
• Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
  
• Disruptive Behaviors
  
• Anxiety
  
• Depression
  
• Eating Disorders
  
• Enuresis / Encopresis
  
• Child Abuse and Neglect
  
• Exposure to Domestic Violence

Project SAFE
Project SAFE provides free, comprehensive group therapy services for children and adolescents who have been sexually abused and for their non-offending parents. Project SAFE helps youth and families deal with the impact of sexual abuse. Referrals from local agencies are welcome and treatment can be coordinated with other service providers. Treatment procedures have been demonstrated to be effective and useful for participating families.

Consultation & Evaluation Services
The Family Interaction Skills Clinic provides consultations and evaluation services to several area agencies.

• The FISC Co-Directors and clinical psychology graduate students provide mental health consultation to the local Early Head Start and Head Start programs. Early Head Start/Head Start direct services include assessment and intervention for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers and their families.
  
• FISC staff members coordinate the mental health screening and behavioral observations for the Early Head Start/Head Start programs. Members provide therapeutic and psychoeducational groups for parents, as well as educate direct service staff on infant and early childhood development and mental health.
  
• FISC therapists perform brief psychological assessments on an on-call basis for children and adolescents at a community hospital.

 

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