Child and Adolescent Services

The behavioral health of children and adolescents is an ever-growing concern for parents and the community. Our child and adolescent services include intensive outpatient services, chemical abuse identification and treatment, evaluation and treatment by child and adolescent psychiatrists, and individual, group and family counseling. Parental and family involvement is central to our care for each child or adolescent.

Programs

Individual and Group Therapy
Allows children and adolescents the opportunity to express their anxieties, develop coping skills and better deal with relationship issues. Our licensed therapists have extensive training and experience working with children, adolescents, and families, and are dedicated to helping our patients develop new ways to cope with the challenges they face. We offer individual, family and group therapy.

Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program
Based at Morristown Memorial Hospital, this daily afterschool program is for at-risk adolescents. The program strives to prevent psychiatric hospitalization for young patients, but is also used as a step-down treatment for those who have been hospitalized.

Services include:

• Assessment
• Individual and family counseling
• Medication management
• Education and substance abuse identification

Family Enrichment Program (FEP)
Based at Morristown Memorial Hospital, FEP assists families affected by child abuse and neglect, who have been referred by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services for evaluation and treatment. Services include:

• Individual and family assessments
• Couples, group and family treatment
• Therapeutic healing for children
• Family outreach in the home
• Therapeutic supervised parenting sessions for families with children who have been placed outside the home

Juvenile Evaluation and Treatment Services (JETS)
This innovative program at Morristown Memorial Hospital is viewed by the New Jersey justice system as a model treatment program for juvenile offenders and their families:

• For more than two decades, JETS has worked with the Morris County court system, youth detention center, and youth shelter, providing a combination of individual, family and group therapy.
• JETS therapists also treat juveniles with behavioral, oppositional and socialization problems prior to their involvement with the court system.