Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses (SPMI) like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and treatment-resistant depression require an extended level of individualized treatment that focuses on minimizing symptoms, implementing coping strategies, and increasing one’s level of overall life functioning. SPMI can also include some of the more pronounced and debilitating personality disorders like Borderline Personality Disorder and Schizoid Personality Disorder. SPMI is often chronic, and it tends to fluctuate with life’s stressors as they increase or decrease. As a result of this fluctuation, individuals with SPMI may experience periods of low stress where their life functioning is relatively stable, as well as periods of high stress where they are likely to need assistance with everyday life issues like employment, education, housing, and socialization.
We work with SPMI populations both in an individual outpatient and group setting. We work with each individual to identify and define their most distressing symptoms, and then assist them in implementing cognitive and other coping strategies to minimize negative impact on life functioning.
Please download and review the following brochures for more information on SPMI:
