Family Focused Programs
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We provide targeted care for pediatric, adult and geriatric patients. Call 800-825-9989 or 310-825-9989 to learn more about our psychiatry services.
The Department of Psychiatry offers services that integrate family members into treatment. By focusing on the entire family, we can help families to:
- understand the experiences of each family member
- recover from-- and even grow following--acute stress or potentially traumatic experiences
- employ strategies to manage mood symptoms
- increase mutual support
- strengthen couples, parent-child and sibling relationships
- build skills to address future challenges
- learn proactive parenting skills to set their children up for success
- support their children’s social relationships
Our family programs include the following:
- Bedside support for families with a child facing an acute or chronic medical challenge in the hospital
- Trauma-informed therapeutic family evaluation including the impact of potential trauma processes and assessment of family resilience
- Psychodiagnostic assessment to better understand mood symptoms
- Family education and support
- Outpatient therapy to support families following an acute stress or traumatic experience, such as acute pediatric illness, adjustment to parental illness, community disasters, or parental military service
- Parenting groups to strengthen proactive and positive parenting practices
- Outpatient therapy to build positive caregiver-child relationships
- Parent-assisted groups to support children’s social skills