ABOUT US / MISSION STATEMENT
Dr. Mahmoud Okasha is a board certified psychiatrist. He has been in clinical practice since 1977 after completing his residency in psychiatry at Yale Medical School department of psychiatry, where he is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Okasha is the Medical Director of Comprehensive Psychiatric Care. He has always been interested in research and in fact started in London England in 1970 where he was doing his residency in psychiatry at the Westminster Medical School. Dr. Okasha has been the primary investigator since 2000 at CPC where he has conducted numerous trials.
CPC is committed to providing our community with clinical research trials that are helpful, meet the needs of our patients, and provide feed back to the medical community in the form of new information.
Thank you for your interest and participation in clinical research.
GOALS
1. Treatment should be provided in the least intrusive style, this is necessary in order to maximize a patient's sense of competency and to reinforce their coping skills. Treatment is most effective when it maximizes a patient's ability to transfer skill and knowledge to their every day life.
2. Treatment must adhere to the principles of medical necessity, defined to include: • a defined disease, condition or illness that requires a given level of care
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A reasonable expectation that the patients' condition or level of functioning will improve through the services provided.
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Service provided at the most cost-effective level of care.
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Adherence to recognized national standards of mental health practice.
3. Treatment should be provided in the least restrictive setting possible. Outpatient treatment is most likely to achieve lasting improvement as it most closely approximates the patient's "Real World". This allows for the patient to master difficulties in the environment in which they naturally exist.
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More intensive treatment modalities should be used to stabilize conditions and provide safety in order to allow the patient to return to outpatient treatment, primary focus of the patient treatment.
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A range of alternative treatments must be available in order to meet the patient's needs and allow them to function in the least restrictive treatment setting. Thus intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization and residential alternatives are part of the continuum of care utilized by CPC for its patients through referral. The goals for all of these alternative modalities continues to be to stabilize the outpatient treatment.
- Psychological testing is used only in limited cases for very specific reasons and through referral to psychologists or neurophysiologists outside of the practice:
4. Solution focused treatment is endorsed as the most appropriate way to return the patients' functioning to expected levels. Clinicians help a patient focus on a plan which will actively enhance function. Specific gals and markers are delineated for each a patients to reflect individual treatment plans and allow the patient clear indications for their own progress. Patients with chronic and recurring symptoms may need episodic approach to treatment to respond to acute exacerbations. However, the symptom focused approach can allow these patients to experience enhanced control and mastery even throughout the course of a chronic illness.
5. As a result of this symptom-solution approach, CPC has found that the vast majority of patients respond to brief intervention. Patients with symptoms that are chronic and recurring may need to be seen longer or on an episodic basis to respond to acute exacerbations. Intensive services are utilized briefly to stabilize a situation in which a patient's safety is at risk. The goal is to return the patient to effective (outpatient) treatment as rapidly as possible.
Facility/Program Affiliations
W.W. Backus Hospital
Adult inpatient program
Partial Hospitalization Program for Adults
Adult, Children and Adolescents inpatients
Alcohol and substance Abuse Programs
Care Plus
Partial Hospital program for drug and alcohol abuse, Adults and Adolescents
Thames Valley PHP
Children and adolescents partial hospitalizations program.
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