NIHB Handbook (PDF) - First Nations Health Directors Association

6. SHORT-TERM CRISIS
INTERVENTION MENTAL HEALTH
COUNSELLING BENEFITS
What is covered?
The NIHB Program provides coverage for the following benefits:
Service for the
community
Counselling
for Clients
or Families
• y Fees and associated travel costs for the mental health professional(s)
may be made available when it is deemed cost-effective to provide
such services in a community or in response to a crisis which affects
many clients and families within that community.
• y When there is a crisis or at-risk situation and there is no other source
of immediate funds for services.
• y Fees for professional mental health therapists for an initial assessment
and to develop a treatment plan (maximum two (2) hours).
• y Mental health short-term crisis treatment and referral services by, or
recognized by, professional mental health therapists including initial
assessment and development of a treatment plan.
• y Treatment plans must include duration and cost.
Remember
1. The rules about what is covered may vary by region depending upon provincial/territorial
insured services.
2. Prior approval is needed to access any crisis counselling benefit under the NIHB
Program. This will be obtained by the service provider.
3. The nature of this service is short-term. (Approximately ten (10) sessions.)
Who may be involved in providing this care?
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Registered Therapists. (Those within the disciplines of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Social
Work or Counselling Psychology.)
Mental Health Therapists who are on the list of approved service providers. Each Health
Canada regional office maintains its own list.
In exceptional cases, a provider who is under the direction of a registered clinical
psychologist, registered clinical social worker or counselling psychologist.
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