Additional treatments

In addition to your treatment at the NPI, we also offer a number of additional treatments. Your practitioner can introduce them to you. Below you can view our offer.

Pharmacotherapy

Pharmacotherapy is possible at the NPI. Although we are very careful with medication in young people, it can happen that anxiety and/or depressive symptoms are so prominent that medication should still be considered. One of our child and adolescent psychiatrists can investigate this and prescribe medication, in advance or in addition to another treatment.

Method
Pharmacotherapy should be preceded by a psychiatric consultation, in which the indication for the therapy is determined. The therapy itself is a treatment contact, which can vary from 20 to 30 minutes, excluding administration. During the therapy, the psychiatrist and the young people meet regularly, preferably once every 3 months and at least once a year. Laboratory or physical examination can be part of the therapy.

Possible follow-up process
If the medication is properly adjusted, and the client's problems allow this, the transfer of the prescription of the medication to the GP can be transferred.

EMDR

EMDR is the abbreviation for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.  If you continue to suffer from a shocking experience, such as an accident, violence or sexual violence, this may get in the way of your treatment at the NPI. EMDR therapy can help.

Method
EMDR therapy is a short treatment of a maximum of 8 sessions, in addition to the treatment you already have at the NPI. In the treatment sessions, the shocking memory is evoked. At the same time, the practitioner draws your attention to the 'here and now' by having you follow a moving light or hand movement with your eyes. EMDR often triggers a stream of thoughts and images, and sometimes also feelings and physical experiences. After a while, the intense feelings surrounding the unpleasant memory diminish and you start to process the event.

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EMDR

Experiential expertise

If you are being treated at the NPI, you can also talk to an expert by experience. Experts by experience know from their own experience what it is like to be in treatment and to be working on recovery. They use their own experiences as clients in a professional way to help others. During an introductory meeting with the experience expert, you discuss what can help you with recovery. After this, you decide how many conversations you want. A conversation lasts 45 minutes.

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Experiential expertise

In your power

In your strength after the NPI is a group for when you have completed your treatment at the NPI and want to investigate how you can continue to work on your recovery yourself. During the treatment you learned a lot about yourself and how to deal with things that you find difficult. Now you are at a point where you want to use these insights in your daily life, your friendships, your work or other social contacts.

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In your power

Systemic therapy

Systemic therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on relationships between people.

Goal of systemic therapy
The complaints and problems of children and young people have an impact on their relationships and friendships, or on their system. For children and adolescents, the other family members are usually the most important people in their daily lives. Relationships between parents/caregivers and children are often still very intertwined and therefore have an influence on each other. The goal of systemic therapy is to find solutions as a child or young person together with the other family members for family factors that stand in the way of better functioning.

Method
In the first two sessions, we take stock of the problems between you and the members of the family, and assess the possibilities for change.  After that, the treatment is aimed at changing the interaction patterns. We do this through psycho-education and supportive/directive interventions. In the final phase, the focus is on completion and the perpetuation of the result achieved.

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Systemic therapy

Parent guidance at NPI

Parent guidance is intended for parents of children and young people who are in therapy at the NPI, or for parents who want to work with a therapist to reflect on aspects that they have difficulty with or get stuck in in their parenting.

Purpose of parent guidance
The purpose of parent counseling is to inform you and the therapist back and forth about how your child is doing and the treatment. You are the most important educator for your child, so your support is important and necessary for the development and treatment of your child. You learn to reflect on the way you shape your parenting and how you can give your child's development more space.

Method
Depending on the problem, you have conversations with your child's therapist, or with another therapist who focuses specifically on you. How often this is necessary is agreed with the parent counselor. The attention is mainly focused on the relationship between you and your child or young person. During these conversations you can ask questions about your child and about the treatment, but also about how you function as a parent and about the problems you experience in this regard.