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OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRY PROGRAMS
FOR ADULTS
FOR CHILDREN
Ambulatory Services Central Intake provides telephone response
9:00am-5:00pm to any referrals for outpatient evaluation and treatment.
The office is supervised by a dedicated clinician, so that all referrals
are triaged at the point of the initial evaluation appointment.
Non-urgent appointments are generally available within one week
of a request. For any urgent outpatient request, the ambulatory
services staff can prioritize a patient who can be seen within 24
hours for evaluation, crisis stabilization, and medication treatment.
Treatment begins with a comprehensive evaluation that includes
a careful assessment of the individual’s presenting illness. The
assessment forms the basis of an individualized treatment plan tailored
to the needs of the client. The treatment system has great flexibility
in the clinical resources and treatment modalities that are available
through its comprehensive network within the community. Treatment
modalities include individual, couples, family and group therapy;
psychological and neuropsychological testing and medication evaluation
and management. There are sixteen outpatient programs, located at
eight different sites for both adults and children.
General Psychiatry Service
Patient population: adults 18+ years of age
Location: main locations at Central Street Health Center and The
Cambridge Hospital’s Macht Building
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Adult General Psychiatry Clinic is composed of small multidisciplinary
practice teams. These teams conduct evaluations, design treatment
plans, and provide quarterly peer review of all treatments. Since
each practice team is multidisciplinary, services such as Medication
evaluation and management are usually provided by staff on the same
team, ensuring good coordination. A Utilization Management Team
coordinates multiple treatments and referrals across practice teams.
Ambulatory Community Service
Patient population: adults 18+ years of age
Location: Central Street Health Center
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Ambulatory Community Service (ACS) is dedicated to serving
the severely and persistently mentally ill population in the community.
The programming is flexible and adaptable, including home visits
or visits to other community locations.
Behavioral Medicine Program
Patient population: adults 18+ years of age
Location: Central Street Health Center
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Behavioral Medicine Program provides cognitive and behavioral
treatment for a variety of disorders. The program provides specialized
treatments for individuals with problems such as anxiety, panic,
chronic pain, weight, smoking, eating disorders, headaches, and
adjustment to chronic illness.
Dialectical
Behavior Therapy
A psychosocial treatment that treats individuals with borderline
personality disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a long-term
disturbance of personality function. Includes individual and group
therapy.
Family and Couples Therapy
The Couples and Family Clinic offers help for a wide range of family
and relationship problems. We work with parents --single or partnered--
often from other countries and cultures, struggling to raise children
in today's complex world. We assist couples of all ages --gay and
straight-- to understand and work through their misunderstandings
and uncertainty. We help people who have relocated from all over
the world to manage the challenges of immigration to family life.
We also provide counseling services where acute or chronic medical
conditions affected the stability in families. We have counselors
who speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese
and Hindi. The Couples and Family Clinic also works closely with
medical providers from throughout Cambridge Health Alliance and
the greater Boston area, to provide the best psychological care
possible.
Patient population: adult & child populations
Location: Central Street Health Center and many neighborhood health
centers
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
Haitian Mental Health Program
Patient population: adult & child populations
Location: Central Street Health Center and Riverside Health Center
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6380
A specialized multicultural program that serves native speaking
individuals and families. The program’s clinicians are able to conduct
bilingual, culturally competent treatment in Haitian Creole and
French.
Latino Mental Health Program
Patient population: adult & child populations
Location: Central Street Health Center and Windsor Street Health
Center
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-665-3900 Bilingual Capable Line
A specialized multicultural program that serves native Spanish
individuals and families with individual and group psychotherapy.
Portuguese Mental Health Program
Patient population: adult & child populations
Location: East Cambridge Health Center
Hours: 8:00am – 5:00pm Monday – Friday; Evening Hours by Appointment
Intake: 617-665-3030 Bilingual Capable Line
A specialized multicultural program that serves native speaking
individuals and families. The program’s clinicians are able to provide
individual, family, and group treatment and testing and consultation
services in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole.
Asian Mental Health Program
Patient population: adult & child populations
Location: Central Street Health Center [link to directions]
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Asian Mental Health Program provides individual, family, and
group psychotherapy to individuals from a variety of Asian countries.
The program is staffed with bilingual and bicultural staff and advanced
trainees who speak a variety of languages including Hindi, Bengali,
Mandarin, and Japanese.
Program for Psychotherapy
Patient population: adults 18+ years of age
Location: Macht Building, Cambridge Hospital
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Program for Psychotherapy provides access to affordable, long-term
insight-oriented psychotherapy to a diverse population in the surrounding
towns and local university communities.
Psychological Testing
Patient population: Adults and Children
Location: All Ambulatory sites
Hours: by appointment
Intake: 617-591-6033
This service provides standard and neuropsychological test batteries
on an outpatient basis.
Psychopharmacology Clinic
Patient population: adults 18+ years of age
Location: Central Street Health Center
Hours: 8:00am – 5:30pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Psychopharmacology Clinic is a specialized program for medication
evaluation and treatment. It provides direct service for psychopharmacology
treatment and provides specialized consultative services.
Victims of Violence Program
Patient population: adults 18+ years of age
Location: Central Street Health Center
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-591-6033
The Victims of Violence Program (VOV) is a specialized program
for individuals who have suffered an acute or chronic trauma. The
services include evaluation and treatment, outreach, consultation.
The program provides advocacy and treatment to victims of crime
through its Mass Victims of Crime Agency. The VOV also provides
specialized support and outreach to communities and community groups
through the Community Crisis Response Team.
Zinberg/HIV+ Mental Health Clinic
Patient population: adult & child populations
Location: Cahill Building, Cambridge Hospital [link to directions]
Hours: varies
Intake: 617-665-1606
The Zinberg Clinic is a multidisciplinary AIDS program providing
comprehensive treatment to HIV positive patients. Services include
evaluation, treatment, prevention, and referral for all medical
and psychosocial needs.
CHILD/ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY DIVISION
The Cambridge Health Alliance offers acute psychiatric treatment
services for children and adolescents. These services include the
child inpatient service located at The Cambridge Hospital, the Somerville
Hospital adolescent inpatient service, as well as Partial Hospital
programs at these campuses. The Family Stabilization Team, which
operates out of the Psychiatric Emergency Service, is a mobile,
specialized, multidisciplinary team that evaluates and treats children
and families in crisis, in community settings, at school and at
home.
Child Ambulatory Service
A wide array of outpatient services including child, adolescent,
and family treatment programs are available in a number of accessible
locations. The Child Ambulatory Service includes a general outpatient
clinic for evaluation and treatment as well as several specialty
clinics. These program are integrated functionally into a number
of multidisciplinary teams comprised of clinical staff from both
programs.
Patient population: child & adolescent
Location: Macht Building, Cambridge Hospital
Services are also available at most Alliance health centers
Hours: 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday - Friday
Intake: 617-665-3458
Services include:
- Comprehensive evaluations of child and families
- Individual, group, and family treatment
- Psychopharmacology
- Cognitive behavioral treatment
- Pediatric neurology
- Neuropsychological testing
- Community Outreach
- Specialized service capabilities:
- Deaf/Hard of Hearing Clinic
- HIV infected children and families
- Child services at our multilingual specialty programs
Contact Information:
Department of Psychiatry
1493 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Administration 617-665-1013
Psychiatric Emergency Services 617-665-1560
Central Intake Line for outpatient referrals 617-665-3458
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