Counseling Services

Sometimes life carries you uncontrollably in a downward spiral. The currents are swift and unfettered, but at the end of the tunnel of darkness gleams a point of light. J. C. Blair Behavioral Health Services can assist you in taking control of the events that shape your life and help you make the transition out of the darkness and into the light.

J. C. Blair Behavioral Health Services offer confidential and comprehensive services dedicated to helping people help themselves. By coordinating inpatient and outpatient care into one facility, the staff is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere of growth in an environment close to home and family.

The multi-disciplinary team of professionals supervised by psychiatrists have been carefully evaluated and selected based on their professional and technical degrees as well as their personal commitment to your well-being. The team's goals for you and your personal goals are identical: to help you modify your feelings, attitudes, and behaviors in order to enjoy life and relationships and to establish a functional social and/or work role in family and community settings. Working together with the team you can successfully make the transition out of the darkness and into the light.

Inpatient Care
Inpatient services are offered in the modern Behavioral Health Unit of the hospital. A comprehensive psychiatric, medical, and psychosocial evaluation is performed which allows the psychiatrist and interdisciplinary team to design the most beneficial individualized treatment plan. The plan is carried out in an environment that is comfortable and private. The program is designed to meet your rehabilitative goals by integrating your needs, interests, and capabilities into therapeutic activities and groups.

Partial Hospitalization Program
The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) is an intensive outpatient program. In an outpatient setting treatment is offered as three to six hours of workshops and therapeutic groups which focus on specific issues including feeling identification, communications skills, stress reductions, assertiveness training, self-esteem/self-concept building, and symptom management. Based on your needs, the multi-disciplinary team helps you create your individualized treatment plan with the ultimate goal of reintegrating you back into social and work settings.

Outpatient Center Counseling Services
Outpatient services consist of counseling for individuals, children, adolescents, couples, and families. Personal difficulties arising because of depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, work-related problems, eating disorders, single parenting, parent/child problems, communication problems, school problems, and divorce are only a few of the obstacles that can be overcome through the following therapies:

• Individual Therapy
• Couple Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Group Therapy

Additional Programs
Employee Assistance Program: Area employers contract with J. C. Blair Behavioral Health Services for confidential treatment services for their employees.
Student Assistance Program: Consultation and assessment services are contracted to area schools. Counselors work within a team of school personnel to identify students who display symptoms of possible problems and to assist the student and parents in contacting the appropriate resources.
Mobile Therapy: Individual/Family therapy is provided to identified individual 0-21 years of age in a non-traditional setting, e.g. home, school, or church.
Juniata College Health & Wellness Center: Counseling services, seminars, and presentations are provided for the student body and faculty of Juniata College.

Referrals and Admissions
J. C. Blair Behavioral Health Services welcome self referrals as well as referrals from physicians, psychologists, hospitals, schools, community agencies, clergy, and family members. Referrals for Inpatient care and the Partial Hospitalization Program must be 18 or older. Outpatient Counseling serves any age.

You can reach the offices Monday - Friday between 8:30 and 5:00 by calling our:
 

Satellite Offices are located at:

• Broad Top Area Medical Center
• Southern Huntingdon County Medical Center
• Juniata Valley Medical Center
• Mt. Union Medical Center