South Shore
Mental Health is a private, non-profit comprehensive behavioral healthcare
organization providing mental health and substance abuse services for
people of all ages throughout the South Shore, Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Nantucket.
Our continuum
of services includes outpatient counseling, medication management, early intervention, residential services, twenty-four
hour emergency services, crisis stabilization and employee assistance services (EAP).
Our multidisciplinary staff of over 550 full and part time professionals offer expertise in meeting the needs of children and families, adults, people with long term mental illness and people with development disabilities.
At South Shore Mental Health,
we have a long tradition of working together with community partners
to help over 12,000 individuals per year.
Meet Madison – A little girl who has benefited from early intervention. Click here for her story
South Shore Mental Health is embarking on an exciting initiative to expand the Step One Program so that we can help more children with developmental delays each year. In order to do this we will be renovating two buildings, the Mollie Hirshberg and Hilda Mahoney Learning Centers located in Squantum, Quincy MA.
The new campus will enable us to expand our services and increase the quality of care we provide. Children will now be able to play, and interact with their peers in four new classrooms. A music room and indoor and outdoor play areas will help children develop and exercise their motor and sensory skills. There will also be a family training room and consultation areas for parents to meet with clinicians.
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South Shore Mental Health welcomes the addition of its newest clinic, North River Associates, as it becomes part of the Bayview family. North River Associates brings with it a 20+ clinician practice allowing for the continuity of care for current clients, as the clinician/client relationships remain intact. North River Associates holds the gold standard for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). DBT combines standard cognitive behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of mindful awareness, distress tolerance, and acceptance largely derived from Buddhist meditative practice. DBT is the first therapy that has been experimentally demonstrated to be effective for treating Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
We are fortunate to have Larry Kahn, joining us on June 1 as Program Manager of North River Associates. Larry most recently was the Director of Arbor Counseling, Boston Outpatient operations. While at Arbor, he developed an extensive school based program with the Boston Public Schools, a suboxone treatment clinic and tripled the volume of outpatient operations.
Larry was trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy by Marsha M. Linehan and developed the DBT group therapy program for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, which was the first DBT outpatient program funded by a Managed Care Organization in Massachusetts. He was also the Coordinator of Rehabilitation Services for McLean Hospital, Belmont MA for over 10 years.
North River Associates is pleased to announce the hiring of a new advanced practice nurse who specializes in treating children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. Mary Ann McDonnell, A.P.R.N., B.C., is the executive director of S.T.E.P. Up 4 Kids, a nonprofit organization supporting children and teens with bipolar disorder. A clinical university instructor, she also maintains a private practice in pediatric Psychopharmacology. She is a recent co-author with Janet Wozniak, M.D. Dr. Wozniak is Director of Pediatric Bipolar Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant Professor of Psychiatry there and at Harvard Medical School. She is on staff as a child prescriber and Clinical Nurse Specialist. They have written two books for parents entitled “Is your Child Bipolar” and “Positive Parenting for Bipolar Disorder”.
