Mental Health Care in Pittsburgh, PA

Southwood Childrens Behavioral Health

What Does Southwood Childrens Behavioral Health Offer?

Southwood Childrens Behavioral Health is a mental health facility at 2575 Boyce Plaza Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering telehealth therapy and residential care. It accepts Medicaid and private insurance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.

2575 Boyce Plaza Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15241

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Types of Care at Southwood Childrens Behavioral Health

  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Adults

Medications Used

  • Aripiprazole
  • Olanzapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Pennsylvania lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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