The Emergency Psychiatry Program at Children's Hospital Boston provides specialized psychiatric services to children, teens and their families who visit Children's emergency room in crisis.
Our goals are to stabilize our patients, promote healthy coping strategies and direct children and their families to the most appropriate follow-up care.
We provide:
- psychiatric evaluations
- crisis intervention
- treatment
- resource referrals
Who do we see?
We see more than 1,000 children and teens, ages 3 to 18 years old, every year after they are brought to the emergency room at Children's Division of Emergency Medicine.
The children and teens we see are usually brought to the emergency room because they are in crisis and need immediate assistance from a mental health professional.
What happens to my child at the ER?
Your child will be medically evaluated when he or she comes to the ER. Even if your child's condition seems primarily psychiatric in nature, he or she must be medically evaluated first to rule out any conditions that may be confused with a psychiatric issue.
Once your child has been medically evaluated, he or she will be seen by one of our team members for a psychiatric evaluation. Both you and your child will be interviewed separately. Often, we provide crisis stabilization in the ER.
After your child is evaluated, we will make treatment recommendations and facilitate aftercare that may include inpatient and outpatient care. Aftercare may include care provided at Children's or at another mental health facility.
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