Outpatient Services
Big Lots Behavioral Health Outpatient Services offers assessment and treatment of mental and behavioral health concerns through standard outpatient individual, group and family interventions.
Intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, including the Mood and Anxiety Program and Eating Disorders Program, are available for high-need youth.
The Eating Disorders Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital offers various levels of care to support children and adolescents diagnosed with an eating disorder or disordered eating.
Experts from Adolescent Medicine and Big Lots Behavioral Health Services at Nationwide Children’s work with the child and family to stabilize eating behavior and health. The team also addresses concerns that may lead to disordered eating, including medical or psychiatric concerns.
A team of dietitians, physicians, behavioral health therapists, psychiatrists and nurses work together to meet each individual child’s needs at each level of care.
The Family Support Program provides mental health services to children and adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse, physical abuse and/or exposure to domestic violence, childhood traumatic grief and adolescent relationship violence.
Our staff have specialized training in the treatment of child maltreatment, family violence and trauma. Group and individual treatment programs are available. Safe and appropriate family intervention is embedded throughout our practice. We offer services at the Center for Family Safety and Healing and in the community.
What To Expect
- Children, adolescents and their non-offending caregivers will meet with a licensed therapist/provider, who has specific training in pediatric trauma and maltreatment.
- A diagnostic assessment will be completed in the first two sessions to assess your child’s current symptoms and treatment needs.
- Your child will meet weekly with a therapist for 60 to 90 minute sessions. Caregiver and/or joint family sessions may also be provided while your child is receiving Family Support Program services.
The Mood and Anxiety Program provides services and resources to adolescents aged 12-17 who suffer from a primary diagnosis of a mood or anxiety disorder.
The program is staffed with a multi-disciplinary team of behavioral health providers.
Outpatient Psychiatry services are offered to youth to help with behavioral health concerns. Our psychiatric providers work with children to evaluate their needs and develop a care plan that may involve medication management and referrals to therapy programs. Services are provided in a variety of our Close To Home locations.
The THRIVE Program operates on four philosophical principles:
- Best Practice/Evidence-Based Care: The team approaches care through a lens informed by the latest standards of care in the field.
- Individualized Care: Every patient and family is unique and that there is no one treatment plan that fits all.
- Multidisciplinary Care: Various specialties may be included in the process for a particular youth/family in order to meet the needs of the youth.
- Patient/Family Centered Care: The team approaches youth and families holistically, appreciates all perspectives within a family system and prioritizes safety and wellbeing of the youth.
Our Team
The THRIVE Program consists of behavioral health therapy, clinical medical social work and psychiatry who work with families of transgender and gender diverse youth and adolescents to help meet their treatment needs.
Behavioral Health
Our behavioral health providers serve patients and families who are seeking treatment or when gender identity development plays a significant role in their emotional and social wellbeing.
What To Expect
- A meeting will take place with a mental health professional that might be a therapist, a psychiatrist or an advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner, depending on the specific needs of your family.
- A holistic assessment will be completed with your family over a course of two to three sessions.
- The professional will meet with members of the family together as well as separately, allowing each member to share their own experience privately with the clinician.
Social Work
Our Medical Social Work team is available to meet with families during appointments. Medical social workers are also available by phone to support families between appointments.
What To Expect
- Help families connect with resources in the community and within Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Work with families to identify strengths that can be used to address needs
- Engage services within the hospital and greater community to further support optimal family functioning and wellness
- Work with providers across the gender development team to promote collaborative care
Treatment for Healthy Alternatives provides counseling for patients with substance abuse concerns. Some of these patients also have mental health concerns.
Levels of Care
The program has two levels of care:
- Outpatient, which meets with patients weekly or bi-weekly
- Integrated Co-occuring Treatment, an intensive level of care, which meets with patients and families in their home and in the community approximately three hours a week
Both programs use motivational interviewing (which helps youth make positive decisions) and cognitive behavioral therapy (which helps change behaviors and thinking).
What To Expect
- Our intake coordinator will gather information to determine which level of care is the best fit.
- You will meet with a licensed therapist who has specialized training in working with patients with substance abuse problems.
- A diagnostic assessment will be completed and a plan for treatment goals will be developed.
- A urine drug screening may be used during treatment.
What Happens Next
- The patient and family will be scheduled for regular appointments with their therapist to work toward meeting the identified goals for therapy.
- A referral may be made to a psychiatrist.
- At the end of the four to six month course of therapy with Integrated Co-occurring Treatment, the patient will be referred to a lower level of care.
