Behavior Modification

The hospital's division of psychiatry provides mental health services for children and youth to age 18. Services include clinical psychiatric evaluation for hospitalized children with a variety of mental, emotional and psychosomatic or physical brain disorders.

Outpatient psychiatric day treatment services are also available for evaluation and treatment of psychiatric disorders such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, conduct disorders, eating disorders, somatoform (psychosomatic and body image disorders) and post traumatic stress disorders. There are no geographic restrictions.

The Child and Family Program make use of evidence-based therapies such as the Incredible Years and PCIT (Parent Child Interactive Therapy).

Medi-Cal eligible youth, 1 - 18 years of age, may receive developmental assessment services and behavior modification therapy through the CHDP program.

The Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service team is comprised of pediatric psychiatrists who work with hospitalized children and youth, but also do evaluation and psychiatric disorder counseling for children and adolescents on an outpatient basis.