Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS)

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Taylor Behavioral Health will be offering Intensive Behavioral Health Service (IBHS), which was previously known as Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS) or “wraparound” services. These services are individualized behavioral health services provided in the home, school, or community. The services are provided by trained staff working one‐on‐one with your child to help with emotional or behavioral challenges.

What is IBHS?

Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) support children, youth, and young adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs. IBHS offers a wide array of services that meet the needs of these individuals in their homes, schools, and communities. IBHS has three categories of service: 

1) Individual services which provide services to one child

2) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) which is a specific behavioral approach to services

3) Group services which are most often provided to multiple children at a specific place. Evidence-based treatment (EBT) can be delivered through individual services, ABA services, and group services.

What are Individual Services?

Therapeutic interventions and supports used to reduce and manage a child’s, youth’s, or young adult’s needs that are identified in the individual treatment plan. Help to increase coping strategies and support skill development, which promotes positive behaviors.

What are Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Services?

Involve the review of a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s behavior within his or her environment. Explore why a behavior occurs and then uses specific interventions based on why a behavior occurs. Seek to increase useful or desired behaviors. 

What is Evidence Based Therapy (EBT)?

Evidence Based Therapy (EBT) can be provided through Individual Services, ABA Services or Group Services. EBTs are behavioral health therapies that use scientifically established methods.

The following are examples of EBT:

Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST): MST is an evidence-based therapy for youth or young adults and their families, which targets behaviors that lead to criminal activity and other juvenile offenses. It is used to addresses all environments that impact high risk youth -homes and families, schools and teachers, neighborhoods and friends. Individuals who provide MST are on call 24/7. MST is used to help empower parents and caregivers, work with parents and caregivers on focusing the youth or young adult on school or gaining job skills and introducing the youth or young adult to recreational activities as an alternative to hanging out with anti-social peers.

What are Group Services?

Intensive therapeutic interventions that are provided mostly in a group format.

They can be provided in a school, community or community like setting. Community like settings mimic an environment a child might typically be in such as a school, daycare or afterschool program.

Examples of Group Services include:

Group ABA: A group of children, youth or young adults that participate in treatment activities, which include ABA interventions. The treatment activities are designed to help the children, youth or young adults develop individual skills. Center-based services may be delivered through group ABA services in a community-like setting. These services may be delivered in a ratio of staff to child, youth or young adult that reflects individual need.