Firefighter’s & First Responders
The Beckman Center for Mental Health Services is a part of a pilot project with the South Carolina Firefighter’s Association to provide Behavioral Health Support for Firefighters. The Beckman Center has two (2) trained clinical staff and a psychiatrist to treat firefighters who have experienced trauma in the line of duty.

Upstate First Responders Support Team
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Telemedicine
Beckman Center is proud to be able to use our information technology systems to ensure that patients receive services from a psychiatrist as needed. All clinic locations are connected by an infrastructure that allows a psychiatrist to be physically located in one clinic and provide services to a patient in another location. This is a true partnership between psychiatry and technology.

Telepsychiatry
SCDMH, in partnership with The Duke Endowment (TDE), the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the South Carolina Hospital Association, and the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SC DHHS), received several grants to provide psychiatric consultations (via telemedicine) in emergency departments (EDs) across South Carolina beginning in March of 2009.

Since July 2012, the program is funded by TDE, state appropriations, SC DHHS, and via subscription fees from participating hospitals. SC is the first state successfully connecting patients in EDs statewide with telepsychiatrists.

Within the Beckman catchment area, two (2) hospitals are connected to the telepsychiatry system, Greenville Hospital System/Laurens County Memorial Hospital and Abbeville Area Medical Center.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment approach for children who have experienced sexual abuse, exposure to domestic violence, or similar traumas.

Who is TF-CBT for? Children who have been abused or exposed to a life threatening or traumatic event between the ages of 3 and 18 who:

• Experience unhelpful beliefs about their trauma (including guilt, shame, fear they will be treated differently).
• Are acting out behaviorally or with sexual behaviors inappropriate for their age
• Experience symptoms of PTSD including constantly thinking about the trauma, avoiding reminders including refusing to talk about it, emotional numbing, irritability, difficulty sleeping, constant awareness of surroundings for danger, troubles concentrating, etc.
• Show a significant change in personality or increase in depression or anxiety

For more information about TF-CBT and the Project BEST learning collaborative, please click here.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is offered in the Greenwood Clinic at the Beckman Center. PCIT is an evidenced‐based treatment designed to improve disruptive and oppositional behavior in children between the ages of 2 ½ to 7 years old. PCIT works by improving the parent‐child relationship and teaches parents how to handle their oppositional child’s behavior. PCIT has two phases; during the first phase of therapy, parents are taught play therapy skills designed to give attention to positive child behaviors. This gives the child positive attention they crave and reduces the likelihood that they will act out again to gain attention. During the second phase of therapy, the parents are taught how to further manage child behavior through more direct behavior management training. On average, PCIT lasts between 12‐18 weeks. Parents are required to practice skills with their child at least five minutes per day, so that they can achieve mastery of the PCIT skills, as well as further build the parent‐child relationship.

Mobile Crisis
Mobile Crisis is available statewide, toll‐free, 24/7 for anyone experiencing a mental health crisis. Local Mobile Crisis Teams assess the crisis and can respond on‐site, with law enforcement, if needed.

SC Mobile Crisis is available 24/7, toll‐free, statewide at (833) 364‐2274.