Emotional & Behavioral Wellbeing
In this section, you will find a wide variety of services dedicated to helping teens and young adults with their emotional and behavioral health, including general mental health services, substance abuse services, and eating disorder services in San Diego County.
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Sharp Memorial Hospital
Sharp Memorial Hospital offers clinical excellence with the latest technology and patient-centered care. The hospital is known for its outstanding programs in heart care, cancer treatment, orthopedics, physical rehabilitation, bariatric surgery, robotic surgery and organ transplantation.
(858) 939-3400
Rady Children’s Chadwick Center
The Chadwick Center, one of the largest hospital based child advocacy and trauma treatment centers in the nation, is staffed with more than 75 professionals in the field of medicine, social work, psychology, psychiatry, child development, nursing and education technology. The staff is committed to family-centered care and a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and family violence.
(858) 966-5803
Rady Children’s Outpatient Psychiatry
Rady Children’s Psychiatry Department provides comprehensive mental health and psychosocial services to children, adolescents and their families within a full-service pediatric medical facility. We offer a full range of outpatient services for conditions including depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorders, behavior problems, psychosis, and eating disorders.
(858) 966-6989
Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital’s Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Intensive Outpatient Program
Marsha Linehan, PhD, ABPP, created DBT, an integration of cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills that is powerful with people who have mood, anxiety, addictive, impulse control, and personality disorders. It is a research-based treatment that helps identify the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and their impact on life situations. The DBT Skills IOP at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital is an adaptation of Dr. Linehan’s program. It will offer Skills Training Groups over an eight-week period. Groups will focus on teaching participants skills to tolerate distress, interact with others effectively and regulate intense emotions.
(858) 836-8434
Mental Health America of San Diego County: Visions Clubhouse
Visions Clubhouse is a client-operated rehabilitation and vocational center offering self-help support groups, life skills, social activities, vocational and pre-vocational training, and psycho-social rehabilitation to individuals with mental illness.
(619) 420-8603
San Diego Training Center: Off the Street
The goal of Off the Street is to educate, encourage and empower youth to live their dreams, without drugs, crime or gangs.
(619) 327-5400
Project A.W.A.R.E.
Project A.W.A.R.E. aims to educate at-risk youths and prepare them to take responsibility for their thoughts and actions. By becoming emotionally literate, learning/developing basic social skills, and through self-examination, our young students will not only better themselves and their school environment, but also become productive members of society and establish themselves as community leaders. Project A.W.A.R.E. provides a healthy environment wherein students can safely process their feelings and learn how to effectively incorporate problem-solving skills that they’ve learned into their daily lives.
(760) 828-7002
San Diego Unified School District: San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program
San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program (SANDAPP) provides case management and counseling services to pregnant and parenting youth throughout San Diego County. In addition, SANDAPP also offers Parent Child Interaction Therapy services for teen parents and their children to improve bonding and attachment and resolve behavior issues and concerns. These services offer a hands-on approach to parenting skill development and are proven to reduce behaviors of the child’s that the teen parent is concerned about.
(619)-344-6430
Rady Children’s Hospital- Emergency Department
The Sam S. and Rose Stein Emergency Care Center at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego is the only emergency care center in the region dedicated to caring for kids and the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in San Diego County. Each year, there are approximately 70,000 emergency care visits.
(858) 966-8036
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas provides expert specialty and emergency care in state-of-the-art facilities.
(760) 633-6501
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