Behavioral (Mental) Health

When a personal problem or addiction becomes too difficult to overcome alone, the staff of ECHN’s Behavioral Health Services is here to help. The department treats a wide variety of behavioral and mental illnesses both in the hospital and on an outpatient basis, including:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Bipolar disorder
• Psychotic illnesses
• Addictions
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Anger management
• Interpersonal relationships
• Behavioral issues in adolescents
• Mental health issues in the elderly
• And much more

The Department of Behavioral Health can provide outpatient treatment to children along with a full continuum of care for adolescents and adults. There are outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospital, and inpatient levels of care.

There also is a state-certified school for adolescents with behavioral health needs, hypnotherapy-based programs for stress management and weight reduction and smoking cessation, and four school-based health centers offering counseling, primary care, and dental hygiene services.

In addition, crisis clinicians from Behavioral Health Services consult on patients in the Emergency Department. Other services include The Work Source to help individuals return to the workforce, and the Horizons Case Management Program to help adults with psychiatric disorders live safely and as independently as possible.

The professionals who work within the department include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, crisis counselors, registered nurses, therapists, special-education teachers, certified drug and alcohol counselors, and others.

Many of the adult outpatient services are offered at the ECHN Medical Building at 150 North Main Street in Manchester, while other services are hospital-based or offered in nearby community locations.

Read an interview with an ECHN psychiatrist on helping children cope with trauma.

Read an article in which ECHN primary-care physicians discuss job stress.