GLEN EDEN MULTIMODAL CENTRE is dedicated to the innovative application of disciplined scientific thinking, creative personal expression and the enhancement of human potential. Though our main focus is the effective treatment of complex mental health and developmental conditions, our assumption is that the best possible treatment for each individual requires the integration of client centered care with specific questioning, learning and inter disciplinary knowledge. It does not settle for the comfort of standard perceptions but is driven by innovation and the achievement of successes not thought possible before.
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OUR CHALLENGE

• Do you have a child, client or patient who has not responded effectively
to any known treatment?
• Has the individual had multiple and/or different diagnoses?
• Do you find the individual difficult to control/stabilize?
• Do some of the individual’s behaviours seem to come ‘out of the blue’?

If you answered yes to any of the above, VPCM may have the best answer. VPCM (variable perspective component model) is designed to establish an analysis of each individual’s functioning, not by using diagnostic or pathological descriptors, but by developing a dynamic, interdisciplinary, descriptive analysis of physiology and psychodynamics within a developmental context.

Once the above is established, it uses a systematically designed therapeutic process that is divided into seven stages, (S³MT) (seven stage multimodal treatment). This structure is responsive to changing individual needs, integrates a range of therapeutic approaches, and formulates different short term goals while working toward long term outcomes. Goals guide a process that includes, not only symptom reduction, but the continued development of personal potential.

As an ongoing measure of the dynamics of functioning, it uses an alpha/numeric, value neutral, data collection system (DRS). This system brakes down ‘expressed behaviour’ into ‘descriptive components’ in the same way that weather can be described by using temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity and so on. It is the combination of pieces that tell us what is happening. The collective outcome isn’t specific enough and can be open to value laden judgements. In the same way, what may be considered as a single behaviour is really a collective outcome, e.g. a tantrum. It can more accurately be seen as a combination of a number of components like arousal, affect, degree and type of motor movement and so on.

VPCM and S³MT are described in some detail in The Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Psychiatric Disorders, a scientific approach, and in its companion Manual, Daily Record Statistics, F.V. Brennan, 2010.

OVERVIEW | these care services are offered:
• A residential and day therapeutic, school based program for children,
youth and young adults.
This program is located in Vancouver, Canada.
• A broad based range of consulting services.
This is presently offered in Canada, the United States and Europe.
• A publishing and discussion forum that encourages academic
and creative expression that addresses accepted ‘truths’ and ‘assumptions’.