The world today is fast-paced, complex and full of challenges for our youth. Families who have children or adolescents with emotional or behavioral problems often struggle to understand what is happening and how to help.

To assist, the Behavioral Health Clinic provides a full range of psychological and psychiatric services to help families better understand and treat even the most complicated emotional or behavioral issues.

Child and adolescent psychologists are able to assist in understanding our youth through specialized psychological assessment and testing services.

Parents and teachers who have specific questions can find answers and a better understanding of their child’s emotions, learning style, development, attention span and the reasons for disruptive behaviors. Psychologists provide a variety of helpful treatment interventions, including:

• neuropsychological testing
• testing of ADHD, behavior and personality
• individual or play therapy
• adolescent group therapy
• family therapy
• consultation to parents and teachers.

Child and adolescent psychiatrists are also available at the Behavioral Health Clinic and often work collaboratively with area physicians to provide assessment, medical interventions and medication management. When more intensive interventions are needed, our psychiatrists direct care in the adolescent inpatient and partial-hospitalization programs, located at St. Cloud Hospital.

Unique to our program is the ability to collaborate with other specialty physicians and providers in a family-friendly, fun environment. This service, located at CentraCare Health Plaza, shares space with pediatric rehabilitation, pediatric oncology, an adolescent physician clinic and a variety of other medical specialty clinics.