• Your organization will be viewed as an innovator by your clients, their families and your funders for providing CETCLEVELAND®, a state-of-the-art, evidence-based practice.
  • Clinical staff are able to understand clients’ disabilities in a more new and accurate fashion
  • CETCLEVELAND® training gives new therapy tools and staff notice long term recovery with their clients.
  • Improved functioning and increased engagement for clients
  • By becoming a certified CETCLEVELAND® site your agency will be part of the Community of Treatment.

The best way to implement our program in your organization is to have a CETCLEVELAND® Trainer with your staff. Our trainer conducts the initial training of your staff at your site and provide additional staff training.

CETCLEVELAND® is a 48 week course in which participants receive 3.5 hours of treatment per week. Each session includes computer-based cognitive exercises, social cognition learning group activities, and one-on-one coaching session with a CET coach. The comprehensive curriculum focuses on a different topic each week that provides a focal point for participants to practice, exercise, and master cognitive and social cognitive processes. Small groups of 8 to 12 participants allow participants to develop supportive peer-relationships and networks, along with 2 coaches who provide personalized attention to each participant.

In addition to the professional expertise of our CETCLEVELAND® trainers and on-site training and video-conferencing, we provide each of your staff our 500+ page CETCLEVELAND® curriculum manual, a set of 50 companion classroom posters, materials for group exercises.

The CETCLEVELAND® curriculum is a challenging treatment methodology, in which success is best achieved with a certified CETCLEVELAND® Trainer to instruct and mentor staff. Therefore, we do not sell our manual separately from the total dissemination package.

We suggest that coaches are individuals who:

  • are likely to be with your organization for the foreseeable future since you will be investing time and energy into their training
  • can bill for their services as widely as possible
  • can think abstractly and outside of the normal therapy box
  • are open to learning new things and changing the way they practice
  • have sufficient time in their schedule to learn the CETCLEVELAND® curriculum.

We recommend that four to six individuals be trained as coaches so that you will have a solid group to support the program. Within this group, we ask that one individual be identified as the organization’s “CETCLEVELAND® Coordinator” or “Lead CETCLEVELAND® Coach” whose role is to ensure the implementation of the program.

During the start-up phase, we budget 8 to 10 hours per coach per week to cover running a group. Once staff are trained in CETCLEVELAND®, the time needed typically decreases to 6-7 hours per week. This includes prep time for each session, running the group, seeing clients individually, and training and supervision.

This is intended to be used just as a guide.

  • Has a mental health related cognitive impairment (slowness of thought, effortful thought processing, impoverished, rigid, disorganized)
  • Not hospitalized in the past 6 months.
  • Has impairment in work, social life or education.
  • Does not have BPD as primary diagnosis
  • Is not substance dependent, may be in recovery
  • Has 7th grade reading level

Our CETCLEVELAND® trainer can help you choose group members.

You will need a group meeting room that can comfortably hold 14 to 16 people (8 to 12 clients, 2 coaches, the CETCLEVELAND® Trainer and 1 or 2 visitors). This space can also be used to conduct the computer training either by having desktop or laptop computer workstations or available on movable carts. If you have a computer room at your agency, that can be used for the once per week, hourly computer group.

The CETCLEVELAND® program requires the following:

  • 5 to 6 computers with Internet connection
  • A white board for lectures and exercises
  • A method to hang classroom posters for lecture notes and treatment plans (some sites use large, permanently mounted clip hangers that are easily installed and inexpensive.)
  • An Internet video conferencing system for training and supervision (i.e. ZOOM, Microsoft TEAMS)

Our experience has been that Medicaid, and to a lesser extent, Medicare and other 3rd party payers are able to cover the costs of CETCLEVELAND®. Medicaid does pay for CET as group therapy and individual therapy or as case management services (CPST individual and group services).

Yes, we would be glad to give you contact information for our dissemination partners.