A comprehensive team approach to behavioral health services
Our team of behavioral health professionals provides comprehensive care services to diagnose and treat children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric individuals who struggle with a behavioral health condition. There are many reasons to choose MedStar Health:
- High standards for quality of care
- A collaborative and comprehensive team
- Dedicated to compassionate and culturally competent care
- A continuum of care including outpatient, partial hospitalization and inpatient
- Psychiatric emergency services
We care for our patients through specialized inpatient, outpatient, and integrated care, including assistance with medical conditions.
To help manage chronic health conditions and encourage a focus on comprehensive wellness, we partner with patients’ primary care physicians and other health professionals. We work together as a team to find a treatment plan that is tailored to each patient’s needs.
What is it and how can MedStar Health help?
Behavioral health is the connection between behaviors and the health and well-being of the body, mind and spirit. This includes how behaviors like eating habits, drinking or exercising impact physical or mental health. It is important to know that behavior health is a blanket term that includes mental health. Our clinical programs outlined below are specifically designed to help provide specialized care for each individual.
Clinical programs
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MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center
- Adult outpatient programs
- Inpatient adolescent psychiatry unit
- Outpatient child and adolescent
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MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
- Adult inpatient and outpatient programs
- Center for Children and Families: Individual, family, and group therapy
- Launch Clinic (Child and adolescent outpatient program)
- Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program
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MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital
- Psychiatric evaluation and treatment services
- Individual, group, and family therapy
- Cognitive wellness program
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MedStar Harbor Hospital
- Outpatient behavioral health therapy
- Adult partial and intensive outpatient program
- Inpatient behavioral health unit
- Partial hospitalization day program
- Crisis intervention
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MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
- Inpatient adolescent psychiatry unit
- Adolescent partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient
- Outpatient child and adolescent
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MedStar St. Mary's Hospital
- Inpatient adult psychiatry
- Adult partial and intensive outpatient program
- Inpatient adolescent psychiatry unit (ages 16 and up)
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MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
- Adult outpatient program
- Adult partial and intensive outpatient program
- Crisis intervention
- Partial hospitalization day program
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MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Adult partial and intensive outpatient programs including:
- Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
- Addiction Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
- Psychiatry and therapy clinic
- Geriatric psychiatry services
Click here to learn more about Outpatient Behavioral Health at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Conditions
There are a wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior. This list encompasses some of the most commonly seen conditions by our specialists.
Treatments
It is important to remember that the most effective behavioral health approach is a combination of counseling and medication. For many people, early treatment is best. One of our trained specialists will complete a full evaluation to make the diagnosis and suggest appropriate treatment plans accordingly. Our treatments will address each person's needs and symptoms.
Our locations
Additional information
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Connected Families: Using Praise and Rewards with Your Child
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The Impact of Racism on the Body & Mind
Research
Our team is regularly published in the healthcare literature. We are also involved in community-based research and innovation, including the Safe Babies, Safe Moms Project, a $30 million grant from the Clark Foundation focusing on maternal and early childhood health.
The Holistic Healing Arts Retreat: An Intensive, Experiential Intervention for Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: This study examined the effectiveness of an intensive, experiential intervention, the Holistic Healing Arts Retreat, for improving posttraumatic symptoms (primary) and comorbid depression and perceived stress (secondary).
If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health, suicide-related or substance-use crisis, call or text 988 to reach the national Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Click here to learn more about the new 988 National Crisis Lifeline.