Advancing Pediatric Behavioral Health: Care, Research and Prevention
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Meet David Axelson, MD, Chief of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Dr. Axelson and his team have achieved amazing things in the last decade, from more than doubling the volume of patients served to establishing a new research institute for mental and behavioral health, and they’re not slowing down.
By the Book: Guiding Teens Through Inpatient Psychiatric Stays
Inpatient admissions for child and adolescent psychiatry patients typically occur due to a psychiatric crisis. At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, children stay an average of eight days before transitioning to outpatient care. While in the hospital, they have access to group therapy, individual counseling and therapeutic services, psychological testing, family therapy and school services. Now, thanks to years of interdisciplinary collaboration, they also have a customizable workbook to help reinforce what they learn from psychotherapy and make progress during and after their stay.
Featured Expert: Anna J. Kerlek, MD
Anna J. Kerlek, MD, is a physician specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. The Division of Behavioral Health at Nationwide Children’s is the largest of its kind at a pediatric institution in the United States, and The Ohio State University houses one of the oldest Child and Adolescent divisions in the country.
Filling the Pipeline for Behavioral Health Professionals
Brittany Schaffner, IMFT-S, LPCC-S, shares how a new college course and professional resources are helping more students meet the need for behavioral health care in pediatrics.
In an interview with Eric Youngstrom, PhD, director of the Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, learn how the Institute for Mental and Behavioral Research (IMBHR) is driving discovery through improved assessments, effective treatments and digging deep to answer the ‘why’ behind clinical challenges. Specializing in areas such as mood disorders, autism, sleep, substance misuse, and self-injurious thoughts and behavior, this team is dedicated to advancing the best care in an ever-evolving specialty.
Introducing Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Behavioral Health Learning Library
To assist them and other health care providers supporting this population, Jennifer B. Reese, PsyD, a clinical child psychologist at Nationwide Children’s, and her team created the Behavioral Health Learning Library, a resource built to provide critical and timely evidence-based research and education on children’s behavioral and mental health.
“Through this initiative, we’re doing something no one else does – giving away critical education from subject matter experts on a wide array of pediatric behavioral and mental health topics for free,” Dr. Reese says.