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Pediatric Behavioral Health Information:
The primary responsibility of a Pediatric Behavioral Health Specialist is to be a clinical and social advocate for marginalized high-risk children and adolescents with multiple chronic diseases. The diseases and issues they treat include difficult family situations, mental illness, behavioral challenges and developmental delay.One should see a pediatric behavioral health specialist if they have had difficult family situations, mental illness, behavioral challenges, or developmental delay. They can also see a pediatric behavioral health specialist if they just need someone to talk to. Treatment includes but is not limited to counseling, medication and exercises.
Procedures include:
- Assessing and triaging the mental health, behavioral health, and social concerns of patients and families, in collaboration with the pediatric nurse practitioner.
- Provide social and behavioral health services for patients and families, including individual and family support, behavioral assessments and monitoring, parent education around pediatric mental/behavioral health issues, and other such services.
- Facilitate referrals to existing behavioral health and social service providers, and facilitate care coordination.
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