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    • About Us
    • Our Providers
  • Our Services
    • 24-Hour Assistance
    • Meet & Greets
    • Newborn & Infant Services
      • Newborn Circumcision
      • Lactation Support
      • Frenotomy
    • Well Exams
      • Resilience
      • Comfort Promise
    • Behavioral Health
    • Complex Care Management
    • Foster Family Support
    • Pediatric Sports Medicine
    • Illness & Injury Care
    • In-House Labs
    • Medical Ear Piercing
    • Contraceptive Implant
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Behavioral Health Services

Behavioral Health Assessment

If your child or teen is having trouble at home or school, not getting along well with others, or facing big life changes, our behavioral health team can help! Through assessment and brief, solution-focused interventions, we offer families the tools and support they need to manage common childhood problems like anxiety, depression, behavior challenges, and concerns related to developmental disorders. We can also help you work through feeding, sleeping, and toileting difficulties in younger children.

Our Team

In addition to your medical team, Metropolitan Pediatrics has dedicated behavioral health team members within each clinic. All of us work together to help children, adolescents, and families feel and live better. Although we have different roles, we function as one care team, committed to meeting your family’s physical, emotional, social, and behavioral needs.

Learn more about the members of our behavioral health team >>

Concerns We Address

We commonly provide consultation for the following:

  • Academic concerns
  • Anxiety
  • Behavior concerns
  • Depression
  • Developmental disorders
  • Nutritional insecurity
  • Parenting challenges
  • Stressful life changes & trauma

Behavioral Health Services

Depending on the individual needs of each patient and family, our behavioral health team may provide:

  • Consultation
  • Brief, solution-focused therapy
  • Guidance & support for parents
  • Connection to community support programs

Family Resources & Support

With the support and guidance of our integrated care team, families learn how to cope with stress, solve problems, make decisions, and overcome challenges. No matter the struggle, we’ll come up with a solution and connect your family with people, places, and programs that can help.

We are happy to offer assistance to improve your family’s well-being, including:

  • Connection to resources for basic needs (e.g., housing, utilities, transportation)
  • Health system advocacy
  • Information on how to apply for insurance/other benefits
  • Medical equipment
  • Special education advocacy

Healthy Minds = Healthy Bodies

If you feel that behavioral health services may benefit your child or family, please talk with your pediatrician during your next visit.

We’ll work together to conquer the temper tantrums, selective hearing, and other growing pains of childhood and adolescence!

Resources

Behavioral Health Forms

Behavioral Health > Intake Packet
The Intake Packet includes several detailed questionnaires needed for your first behavioral health appointment. Your answers will give our staff valuable insight into your child or teen’s medical and family history, including any concerns related to sleep, attention, and concentration.

Behavioral Health > Phone/Video Visit Consent
The Phone/Video Visit Consent contains important information about engaging in our clinic’s behavioral health services using the phone or internet. Please review it prior to your first virtual visit.

Vanderbilt Teacher Assessment
The Vanderbilt Teacher Assessment is a teacher-completed rating scale and questionnaire that assists us in better understanding your child’s functioning within the school setting. It is part of our evaluation process for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Recommended Books (Children)

  • Beyond Discipline: Parenting that Lasts a Lifetime, by Edward R. Christophersen
  • Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child’s Fears, Worries, and Phobias, by Tamar Chansky
  • Incredible Years: A Troubleshooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 3 to 8, by Carolyn Webster-Stratton
  • Parenting That Works: Building Skills that Last a Lifetime, by Edward R. Christophersen & Susan L. Mortweet
  • Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, by Rex L. Forehand and Nicholas Long
  • Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic, by Mary S. Kurcinka
  • Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook, by Mary S. Kurcinka
  • SOS! Help for Parents: A Practical Guide for Handling Common Everyday Behavior Problems, by Lynn Clarke
  • The Berenstain Bears Learn about Strangers, by Stan & Jan Berenstain
  • The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, “Chronically Inflexible” Children, by Ross W. Greene
  • Tobin Learns to Make Friends, by Diane Murrell
  • Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger, by Warwick Pudney & Elaine Whitehouse
  • Your Defiant Child: 8 Steps to Better Behavior, by Russell Barkley and Christine Benton

Recommended Books (Teens)

  • Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex & Relationships, by Ruth Bell

Helpful Links

  • AAP’s HealthyChildren.org
  • AAP’s HealthyChildren.org – Spanish
  • Ataxic Cerebral Palsy
  • Autism – Spectrums Magazine
  • Back-to-school Anxiety
  • Children with Anxiety
  • Children with Anxiety – For Parents
  • Choosing a Preschool for Your Child
  • Developmental Milestones
  • Grief & Loss: During the Holidays
  • Grief & Loss: After a Suicide Death
  • National Child Stress Traumatic Network
  • Positive Reinforcement
  • Psychology of Spanking
  • Printable Behavioral Reinforcement Charts for Children
  • Tips for Communicating with Your Child
  • Traumatic Experiences (Sesame Street)

Cool Apps

Most of the following apps cost money; however, you can download several basic relaxation/meditation apps for free!

  • 3D Brain helps explain everything from executive functioning to trauma.
  • Taming the Anger-Monster teaches younger kids anger management skills.
  • DBT Diary Card and Skills Coach teaches teens and adults some fundamental skills to help with emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and fostering healthier social relationships.
  • iCBT lets users track and correct negative thinking.
  • iCouch CBT helps kids and adults practice correcting automatic negative thought patterns.
  • MoodKit is a great tool for teens and young adults with mood-related issues. It includes multiple Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) exercises, as well as sections on improving health habits, increasing social activities, and increasing physical activity.
  • Simply Being – Guided Meditation for Relaxation and Presence is a decent and fairly inexpensive mindfulness based app.
  • Relax & Sleep Well guides users through several relaxation exercises.
  • Sosh is a social skills app specifically designed for teens and young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome. Due to the cost of this app, we recommend trying the free trial version prior to purchase.

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  • Newborn & Infant Services
  • Newborn Circumcision
  • Lactation Support
  • Frenotomy
  • Well Exams
  • Resilience
  • Comfort Promise
  • Behavioral Health
  • Complex Care Management
  • Foster Family Support
  • Pediatric Sports Medicine
  • Illness & Injury Care
  • In-House Labs
  • Medical Ear Piercing
  • Contraceptive Implant

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Office Locations

Beaverton
15455 NW Greenbrier Parkway
Suite 111
Beaverton, OR 97006

Phone (503) 531-3434
Fax (503) 645-4544

Bridgeport
7213 SW Hazelfern Road
Tigard, OR 97224

Phone (503) 214-2064
Fax (503) 598-3600

Gresham
25050 SE Stark Street
Suite 300
Gresham, OR 97030

Phone (503) 667-8878
Fax (503) 667-0310

Happy Valley – Johnson Creek
9300 SE 91st Avenue
Suite 200
Happy Valley, OR 97086

Phone (503) 261-1171
Fax (503) 253-5989

Happy Valley – Sunnyside
16144 SE Happy Valley Town Center Drive
Suite 210
Happy Valley, OR 97086

Phone (503) 486-7040
Fax (503) 658-3377

NW Portland
1130 NW 22nd Avenue
Suite 320
Portland, OR 97210

Phone (503) 295-2546
Fax (503) 790-1248

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