Children and Adolescents Psychiatric Services

Now Available at Bergen Regional Medical Center

Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Evaluation and Treatment Services

Board certified child psychiatrists and licensed social workers are available to treat children between the ages of 5-17 for a variety of mental health issues including:

• ADHD
• Bullying
• Depression
• Anger
• Anxiety
• OCD
• Bipolar Disorder

Treatment modalities include: psychiatric and psychosocial assessments, individual, family and group therapy, and support groups for parents. By appointment only, 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday . Call the The Access Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services 1.800.730.2762 for information or appointments.

Bergen Regional Medical Center is designated as one of the eleven Children's Crisis Intervention Services (CCIS) inpatient units in New Jersey. The unit provides short-term, crisis stabilization within the structure of a behavior therapy treatment milieu program that is focused on the safe and effective treatment of patients ages 5 through 17.  The program also includes two subacute level of care beds for those children who require a longer length of stay due to the intensity and nature of their problems.

An individualized treatment plan is developed for each patient with active involvement of the parents/guardians and other appropriate family members.  Each child receives four hours of school daily in addition to participating in a very structured treatment program that includes structured groups, skills groups, recreational therapy and family therapy. Patients are expected to identify a daily specific problem, goal and task list. 

The multidisciplinary treatment team of child  psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, teachers, and recreational therapists actively work with the patient on learning and utilizing safe and effective behaviors with the goal of  discharge as soon as the patient is no longer considered to be a danger to self or to others. 

Discharge planning begins on admission and provides the patient and family with an effective treatment and support program after discharge from the hospital.