Department of Psychiatry
Elizabeth Childs, M.D.
Inpatient Services
Includes 36 adult beds and 14 adolescent beds on three locked units specializing
in short-term crisis intervention. Operating under a multidisciplinary
team approach, the focus is on diagnostic assessment, reduction of acute
symptoms and development of an aftercare plan.
The adolescent program is a discrete, inpatient unit providing comprehensive
treatment of patients 13-18 years of age. The program focuses on intensive
family involvement and educational programming.
A dual diagnosis program is an inpatient unit providing comprehensive
treatment for patients with both substance abuse and mental health disorders.
Treatment is systematic, focusing on the interaction and separateness
of the illness.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
Provides individual and group treatment to psychiatric inpatient units.
A schedule to meet individual treatment needs is collaboratively planned.
It looks at the impact of illness on work, play and self-care and helps
a person return to his highest level of functioning in the community.
A comprehensive outpatient mental health program includes evaluation and
treatment of mental health and substance abuses difficulties, individual,
family and group psychotherapy, patient support services, psychopharmacological
evaluation, psychological testing and 24-hour emergency services for all
ages.
Clozapine Chronic Psychosis Clinic
This outpatient specialty clinic addresses the needs of this specialty
group of seriously and persistently mentally ill patients. The clinic
provides psychopharmacological treatment, rehabilitation group therapy,
family supportive therapy, case management, social work intervention,
nurse visit, laboratory tests and medication delivered all in the same
day. Every effort is made to coordinate services so that the patient has
the least disruption to his/her life.
Partial Hospitalization Program
A system-focused crisis intervention program provided in a less restrictive
environment for patients 13 years and older, who do not need 24-hour care
but remain in need of intensive clinical services.
ECT
Electro-convulsive therapy is available on both an inpatient and outpatient
basis. It is most beneficial to those patients who are either refractory
to other forms of treatment, or who have a clear history of having a beneficial
response to ECT.
To make a referral or for more information, call (617) 296-4000, extension
3511 or (617) 296-1471.
Drug and Alcohol Outpatient
Services
A program designed to treat only those patients who have begun their sobriety.
The philosophy is to address the spiritual, mental and physical needs of
addiction and to identify the process of the disease so that the client
can embrace alternatives to drug and alcohol.
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