Psychiatry (Pediatrics)
Treatments and Services
The pediatric psychiatry team at BMC offers comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, as well as evidence-based treatments that include:
- Medication evaluation and management
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent education and parenting skills training
- Social/emotional skills training
- Somatic and play therapy
- Trauma-focused therapy
Mental Health Crisis and Same-Day Support
BMC’s Community Behavioral Health Center (BMC CBHC) offers 24/7 mental health crisis support by phone (including deployment of a mobile team if necessary) and same-day, walk-in support seven days a week during daytime hours in the CBHC Youth Clinic.
Holistic Support for Families
At BMC, we believe parents and caregivers can best support children when the whole family is stable and supported. Our staff can also help with referrals to BMC programs such as the Preventive Food Pantry and THRIVE as well as connect our patients and their families to other support organizations in the greater Boston area.
Preventive Food Pantry
BMC’s Preventive Food Pantry works to address nutrition-related illness and undernutrition for our low-income patients. It fills the therapeutic gap by linking physicians and nutr…
The Teaching Kitchen
Come to the Teaching Kitchen for a FREE cooking class and learn how to make simple, cost-effective, and delicious recipes that will help you live a healthier life and/or manage yo…
THRIVE
THRIVE is Boston Medical Center’s custom screening and referral program that asks all patients about social needs that could be affecting their overall health and wellbeing.