PAL provides an array of psycho-therapeutic, assessment, community mental health, research and training services to individuals, groups and organizations:

 

 

•Individual Psychotherapy This involves in-depth psycho-therapeutic services for the treatment of mental and emotional disorders for individuals of all age ranges. Specialized psycho-therapeutic techniques include Psycho-historiography which is a graphic technique that is used to produce insight for an individual by examining his or her problems within the historical context of that person. The purpose is to facilitate productivity and change based on these themes, helping the individual to transform his or her vision of the future.

 

•Adult Psychiatric and Psychological Services We offer a full range of adult psychiatric and psychological assessment and treatment services for emotional and mental health problems. Support services offered include individual, marital and family therapy.

 

•Forensic Services We provide a combination of psychiatric and psychological clinical assessments (including psychological testing), offering expert mental state opinions for individuals involved in court cases. Our goal is to promote the welfare of our clients and the safety of the public by means of risk assessment and management.

 

•Geriatric Services (psychiatry/psychology of old age) This entails the assessment and treatment of mental health problems in elderly persons, including the diagnosis, treatment and management of dementia.

 

•Child & Adolescent Services We offer individual assessments and psychotherapy for children and adolescents. To assist parents who may be having difficulties managing the unique challenges of their child’s behavior, we also offer parent training and individually tailored behavior management programs.

 

• Substance Abuse Treatment Assessment and treatment of substance abuse problems through psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy (as necessary). We believe in a holistic approach for the effective management of substance abuse problems which may also include the detection and treatment of co-occurring mental disorders.

 

• Assessments A wide range of psychological assessments including: educational, intellectual, vocational, behavioral and personality assessments. Community Mental Health Services Our Community Mental Health Service consists of a stand-by psychiatric/mental health team that provides emergency response to persons within their community. A

 

fully equipped mental health response team with a Mental Health Officer, Psychiatric Aide and an on-call Psychiatrist will provide round the clock responses for our patients registered in our database Our patients can also receive follow-up care in the form of in-home treatment for patients who are unable to ambulate or those who prefer the discretion of in-home rather than office visits.

 

Cultural Therapy This is a group psycho-therapeutic intervention for children and adolescents who are at risk of developing behavioral problems. It combines creative arts, games and life skills with remedial tutoring, with the aim of assisting children and adolescents with enhancing and actualizing their potential. Cultural therapy is a multi-modal intervention that was designed in view of the limited resources of a developing society such as Jamaica with the challenges of social distress, school drop outs, risk of delinquency, frequent attachment disruptions and poverty.

 

It is child focused particularly in light of a general difficulty with parental participation and is assessed for its effectiveness in both reducing the children’s behavioral problems and improving their academic performance within culturally syn-tonic therapeutic modalities. The Cultural Therapy programme is a group psycho-therapeutic intervention implemented through the creative arts (art, drama, dance, and music) and games in conjunction with remedial tutoring and information technology.

 

All activities are oriented to promote social skills such as interpersonal communication, managing conflict, cooperating with leaders, enhancing empathy, validating competencies and developing self-esteem. Cultural Therapy had has been used with cohorts of male and female students ages 8 – 9 years old from the Allman Town Primary and male students ages 121 – 17 years old from the Alpha Boys Home, both located in Kingston, Jamaica. For further information on these projects, please contact us. Training/Workshops/Seminars .

 

a. Substance Abuse Counseling Didactic and interactive lectures to educate clients on the origin, assessment and psychological treatment modalities employed in the rehabilitation of substance abusers.

 

b. Peer(practitioner) Counseling Lectures and workshops are created for general and mental health practitioners, to impart the basic tenets of counseling focused on recognition and appropriate referral of patients with psychological distress.

 

c. Stress Management/Anger and Conflict Management/Parent Training Lectures, workshops and Psychohistoriographic sessions are used to help clientele discern key insights about their behaviors and how these behaviors propagate their environmental stress level. The technique is also used to help persons devise individualized goal oriented tasks to achieve maximum productivity in their lives. Research Psychotherapy Associates Limited is one of the leading private medical research organizations in Jamaica.

 

Through extensive project management and technical expertise backed by decades of research experience, the team is equipped with skills in report writing and project management, as well as the highest levels of clinical, psychological, and research leadership. Through these skills, we are capable of offering services in psychological/psychiatric research conceptualization, design, implementation, analysis, and reporting.