Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Child and Adolescent Care at Lindner Center of HOPE

At Lindner Center of HOPE, a team of child and adolescent physicians and mental health practitioners provide comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services in a comfortable and therapeutic setting. Individualized care is provided with a focus on family involvement. Family education and participation is essential to the success of the treatment and recovery process.

Adolescence and early adulthood are critical times when physical, cognitive, and social changes allow a teenager to develop the identity that will serve as a basis for their adult lives. Research has indicated that psychiatric illnesses frequently present during the adolescent years, thereby making early diagnosis and effective treatment even more crucial.

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Outpatient Consultations and Therapy for Children and Adolescents

Lindner Center of HOPE Professional Associates outpatient practice has a team of child and adolescent physicians and mental health practitioners that provide comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services in-person and through telehealth appointments, often with quick availability. Lindner Center of HOPE provides outpatient psychiatric consultations, assessments, evaluations, psychotherapy (individual and group therapy), psychopharmacology, and neuropsychological testing services for children and adolescents, as young as age 2 (depending upon the service). A variety of expert consultations are also available, including for eating disorders, substance and internet addiction and Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Child and Adolescent Team can address all symptoms/diagnoses including:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Bipolar Disorder

• Eating Disorders

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Substance Use

Child/Adolescent Group Therapy Offerings include:

DBT and RO-DBT Skills Groups

Group PEERS Group

Link to:  https://lindnercenterofhope.org/outpatient-care/ and scroll to Outpatient Support Groups

Call 513-536-0570 to schedule.

Read more about Outpatient Care.
For adolescent outpatient information, call 513-536-HOPE(4673)

Learn more about Learn more about Outpatient Autism Testing and Therapy for Young Children .

Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program

The Child/Family Center at Lindner Center of HOPE offers a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for adolescents to receive day treatment, while living out their learned skills in the evenings and weekends at home. The goal of the program is to provide tangible insights and skills for adolescents and their families to apply to daily life. Learnings from this more intensive treatment are meant to foster resilience, improve communication, and maximize functioning. Coping skills can address:

• A variety of mental health diagnoses

• School concerns

• Emotion regulation

• Interpersonal interactions

Appropriate patients for the Adolescent PHP will be 12 to 18 (if still in high school) years of age with primary mental health concerns. Co-occurring presentations will be reviewed for appropriate fit. The standard length of the program is 10 business days.

 

Call 513-536-0KID (0543) to schedule an assessment for PHP or read more at https://lindnercenterofhope.org/adolescent-partial-hospitalization-program/

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy for Adolescents

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation- (TMS) Therapy is a non-invasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and other diagnoses. Currently TMS is only approved for the treatment of depression in adolescents. TMS is prescribed by a psychiatrist, does not require anesthesia or sedation, and patients remain awake and alert. The treatment is typically administered daily for 7 weeks, and the patient is able to maintain their normal routine before and after beginning TMS therapy. Adolescents must be 15 years old or older.

Statistics show 83 percent of patients show a positive response to TMS and 62 percent experience remission of symptoms.

Call 513-536-0864 to discuss TMS therapy or read more at https://lindnercenterofhope.org/tms/

The Lindner Center of HOPE Neuromodulation Center is also able to provide electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to teens 14+. Read more at https://lindnercenterofhope.org/ect/

Inpatient Hospitalization Services for Adolescents

Cincinnati Children’s has an inpatient unit at Lindner Center of HOPE which provides stabilization for struggling adolescents age 12 to 17 on a 16-bed adolescent unit. Patients participate in structured daily activities that are evidence-based and interdisciplinary in nature. Many involve group work with peers and staff.


The treatment team can include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, dietitians, and general practice physician. Daily programming aims to ensure comprehensive and adolescent-centered education and treatment during the course of the inpatient stay.


The recovery process begins during the course of the inpatient stay in order to promote as smooth a transition as possible to the outpatient setting.The team treats adolescents with all mental health diagnoses who meet admission criteria. To read more about Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s mental health programs,  click here.

Read more about Acute Inpatient Care.

When To Consider Hospitalization For Adolescents And Young Adults

Though the following signs may be the result of another health condition or other life circumstances, they can assist parents in determining if their child may need further help from a mental health professional:

  • Decline in school performance
  • Persistent difficulty with peers
  • Poor grades despite strong efforts
  • Constant worry or anxiety
  • Persistent somatic complaints
  • School refusal or loss of interest in usual activities
  • Persistent and disruptive hyperactivity
  • Inability to focus or concentrate
  • Repeated disrupted sleep patterns
  • Continuous or frequent aggression, “acting out” or oppositional behavior
  • Persistent sadness and/or irritability

Symptoms that need immediate attention:

  • Suicidal thoughts
  • Extreme fright in situations that do not warrant it
  • Extreme unreasonable resentments or grudges
  • Incoherent speech or writing

Lindner Center of HOPE treats a wide range of mental illnesses. This list represents the most common: