Athens Behavioral Medicine

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Athens Behavioral Medicine provides both general and sub-specialty neuropsychiatric care for children, adolescents, and adults. Our practitioners work as a team to ensure a careful, thorough evaluation followed by comprehensive multi-modal outpatient treatment.

Already the largest multidisciplinary private mental health practice in the area, members of our clinical team strive to be leaders in the field as well, by serving as University professors, by providing lectures to other physicians and the community regarding mental illness, by employing evidence based practice, by participating in clinical research, and by utilizing state-of-the-art technology to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Our mission is to be a regional resource providing the highest standard of behavioral health care, to search for new knowledge of mental illness and human behavior, to teach what we know and learn, and to apply this knowledge to promote mental health. Most of all, we are here to promote the health and overall functioning of the patients whom we serve.

■ individualized treatment based on the scientific evidence base
■ involvement of family members

Our team employs the bio-psycho-social approach to the diagnosis and treatment of those suffering from psychiatric problems. In short, medication alone is rarely the proper means of treatment, especially in children and adolescents. The bio-psycho-social approach calls for the clinician to also consider social and psychological factors in the causation of mental illness and to consider social, academic, and psychotherapeutic interventions as part of a comprehensive, multi-modal treatment plan. The judicious use of medication in children often has its place as a vital adjunct to other treatments, but the decision for a child to take psychotropic medication should be made only after a thorough discussion with their doctor about the risks, benefits, possible side-effects, and alternatives.