Psychology week 3 assignment methods

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Response to Lance on Tides Family Services

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Response to Lance on Tides Family Services

According to your discussion, Lance, the Tides Family Services (TFS) Enhanced Outpatient Services (EOS) program is an extension of the organization's overall mission, which is to preserve families and support youth with quality community-based services. The organizational vision of emotional stability, control of behaviors, and minimizing responses to crisis as explained by Tides Family Services (2024) is consistent with the organizational objective of empowering caregivers and developing resilient families. Well, it’s true as you have indicated that the success of the EOS program is based on accomplishments involving positive changes seen in the behavior of the youth, as well as the management of the crisis by caregivers. All these are the measures of effectiveness in the reduction of the burden on the emergency and inpatient facilities, in line with the commitment of TFS towards community-based stabilization (Tides Family Services, 2025).

As you’ve noted, the desired outcomes are a decrease in the use of emergency services, as well as enhanced family functioning. Such outcomes as noted by the organization is to support the organization's commitment to the use of evidence-based practices, with the focus on youth stabilization in natural environments to bring about sustained outcomes related to behavioral health care (Tides Family Services, 2024). You have also indicated the need to combine the quantitative symptom measures, for instance, the Ohio Scales or the MCGAS, with administrative data, and this is consistent with the Continuous Improvement Approach from the TFS, allowing for constant review of service provision effectiveness with their outcomes (Tides Family Services, 2021). It’s true that ethical integrity is maintained by the provision of confidentiality, the requirement of seeking consent, and employee training on data handling. It’s true that continuous employee development, combined with commitment to TFS’s values of respect, care, and account, are vital in promoting ethical conduct throughout all evaluations (Tides Family Services, 2024).

References

Tides Family Services. (2021). FY2021 Q1 Continuous Quality Improvement Report. Tides Family Services. https://www.tidesfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FY21Q1CQIreport.pdf

Tides Family Services. (2024). Tides Family Services Brochure 2024. Tides Family Services. https://www.tidesfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/TidesBrochure2024.pdf

Tides Family Services. (2025, February 19). CBO Spotlight: Tides Family Services. CTC-RI. https://ctc-ri.org/02/19/2025/cbo-spotlight-tides-family-services