Outpatient Services

The Streamwood Behavioral Outpatient Counseling Program provides both psychiatric and chemical dependency crisis intervention, short-term psychotherapy and therapeutic maintenance. Services are provided for children, adolescents, and families who are experiencing mild to moderate difficulty in coping adaptively with stressful situations on a daily basis. This service is provided six days per week, Monday through Saturday at our Streamwood location by scheduled appointment. Providers of service include social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists.

Outpatient Behavioral Management Specialty Assessment

These assessments are provided in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Human Services. Children and adolescents eligible for these services are those with multiple treatment failures suffering from emotional and/or behavioral problems that interfere with daily adaptation skills. Children between the ages of 5-18 years old are accepted who reside in Cook, Du Page, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake and Will counties in Illinois. This assessment is free. This service is offered Monday through Saturday by appointment.

Advantages of Outpatient:

• Individual lives at home
• Treatment interventions are limited, but highly individualized
• Children and adolescents continue to attend regular school classes.
• Occasional use of group therapies.
• Least intensive, least expensive treatment option