About Behavioral Health Outpatient Center – Atlanta
Grady Behavioral Health Outpatient Center is part of the Grady Healthcare System in Atlanta, Georgia. This location is an outpatient facility on Park Place NE around the corner from Grady Hospital. The Park Place facility has outpatient treatment programs for co-occurring mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and anxiety. They also treat substance use disorders such as alcohol and opioid dependence. The facility accepts many types of private health insurance including Medicaid and Medicare.
A unique feature of the behavioral health center is that it’s staffed by specialists from two medical schools, Morehouse and Emory. This medical specialty can help staff address the physical side of addiction as well as the emotional aspects.
Outpatient treatment includes assessment and diagnosis. It’s important to identify any underlying co-occurring mental health disorders if you’re getting treatment for substance use. Substance use disorder is often a result of self medicating uncomfortable symptoms of a mental health issue. Once the issues are identified, then you can begin to address your substance use and the reasons for it. You’ll attend group and individual therapy as well as have medication management if appropriate.
In the case of an acute psychiatric or medical concern, there’s a new 16 bed psychiatric inpatient center. The goal of the inpatient program is to quickly get crisis situations under control. This may include a substance use or behavioral health crisis.
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