Behavioral Health Services

Behavioral Health Diagnostic Services

When dealing with patients’ and families’ behavioral and emotional health in the context of physical illness, our experts rely on long experience and specialized training in working with children with behavioral needs. Treatment is guided by up-to-date evidence-based behavioral neuroscience and the fast-growing field of pediatric psychosomatic medicine. Our experts and their partners can recommend the most appropriate intervention based on each child’s needs and circumstance. Interventions are a collaborative endeavor of the behavioral health team along with the child, his or her family and caregivers, the primary medical team, and involved multidisciplinary support staff. Family-focused care is a key component of our mission.

Behavioral Health Treatment Services

The Brain Care Institute’s Pediatric Behavioral Health Service delivers an array of specialists in a variety of programs to provide diagnostic and empirically supported interventions for youth and families’ treatments through all levels of care:

• The Pediatric Behavioral Health Consult and Liaison Service (PBHCLS) is the main point of contact during inpatient admissions at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
• A network of experts from UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics, the Child and Family Counseling Center, the Center for Independence, and Developmental Medicine provide community-based evaluations and evidence-based interventions in pediatric offices and at Children's Pine Center in Wexford.
• The Child Neurology Division, including the Epilepsy Center and the Headache and Movement Disorders Clinics.
• UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and UPMC Western Behavioral Health provide a comprehensive range of subspecialty behavioral health services, including inpatient, partial day hospital, intensive outpatient, and outpatient services for:
• Anxiety.
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• Autism spectrum disorder.
• Bipolar disorder.
• Depression.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).