YOUR COMMITMENT TO TREATMENT
Now that we’ve covered what you deserve and should expect in terms of how I will treat you, let’s talk about your commitment to treatment. I am seriously dedicated to helping improve your life – to treatment being genuinely effective. This requires a deep mutual commitment to a healing process that increases your attention, productivity and personal happiness. There are some essential steps that facilitate success. In part these relate to the Treatment Process itself. Others issues involve implantation of steps in your life.

THE TREATMENT PROCESS.

YOUR TREATMENT OBJECTIVES: Prior to your coming in for your first session with Dr. Hunt, you will likely receive the New Patient Letter and a Patient Introduction Form to introduce you to us – and to give us a brief sense of what your personal objectives are, how ADD or related difficulties has impacted your life, what prior or current treatment you have received, and how we might be most helpful to you. What interventions have you tried, and found most useful or least effective. How will we know when things are better.

OUR INITIAL APPOINTMENT:
When you come for your first appointment, my staff and I would appreciate the following things;
1. Arrive 30 minutes early so that my staff we can complete your intake documents and you can complete our software assessment program, SMARTSoft-ADD.
2. Fill out the questionnaire that will be sent to you after we receive the Pre-appointment Agreement Form and bring it with you to your scheduled appointment
3. Please bring a list or all bottles of mediation which you are currently taking and any relevant information or medical records that you have in your possession.

TIME: we respect your time – and given our tight schedule, ask you to respect the time we have reserved for other patients. If you are unable to be prompt, we do not wish to keep other patients waiting, We may have to reschedule your appointment out of respect for other commitments. This would result in our charging you for the time we reserved for you – and require that we reschedule your appointment to the next available opening, which may be several days or weeks away. We all wish to avoid that.

NO-SHOWS: Given the demands on our patient time, we are usually booking new patients 1-4 weeks in advance. To protect our availably for other patients, we have a “zero tolerance” policy for “no shows.” This allows me to provide on-time, cost-effective service to patients who will “play by the rules.”

FORMS: Please bring your completed intake or follow-up forms with you. For follow-up visits, we need you to complete a our brief 1 page update form – that takes about 10 minutes. If you have to complete the intake form in advance, please plan on arriving at least 45 minutes early to completed this information in our lobby. We’ll get you a hot cup of coffee or a soft drink, give you a new set, and have you fill them out in high style, if your questionnaire forms are not complete.

SCHEDULING FOLLOW-UP SESSIONS: Also, to avoid running out of time in my schedule, and to help my office staff plan for new patients we often scheduled several follow-up appointments 1-3 months out into the future. Our second and third appointment is usually 2 4 and the weeks after the initial intake, so that we can monitor the effect of our initial interventions. we usually take the opportunity after your first appointment to schedule several appointments for you so that you will be assured of having a spot on my calendar.