Center for Behavioral Health

The Pediatric Psychiatry Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s in St. Petersburg, Florida, treats children and teens with a variety of mental health disorders including ADHD, anxiety, depression, psychosis and behavioral conditions. Services include new patient evaluation and medication management.

Our psychiatrists are medical doctors who treat mental health concerns in children and teens. They perform diagnostic evaluations for a number of mental health conditions including ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and irritability associated with autism. They prescribe medications for the diagnosed conditions and make referrals to the appropriate psychologists and neuropsychologists who may provide additional evaluation with formal testing like IQ and learning disorder tests, autism testing, and highly sophisticated neuropsychologic testing. Our psychiatrists will also refer for psychological therapies to Ph.D., Psy.D, and masters-prepared mental health professionals for appropriate psychologic and behavioral treatments.

Why Choose Johns Hopkins All Children’s

The psychiatry team:

• Helps patients and families understand mental health disorders and achieve interventions and accommodations throughout their childhood and adolescent years
• Spends the time developing and/or modifying a treatment plan and life plan, collaborating with and educating patients and families in the process
• Offers patients 80-minute initial evaluation sessions and 20-, 40- or 60-minute follow-up sessions
• Provides knowledgeable and experienced evaluation and treatment for new patients ages 3 to 17
• Sees established patients until age 21 and helps with the transition to adult care
• Provides continuity of psychiatric care with a single provider
• Has physicians on call nights and weekends for existing patients in the event of a psychiatric emergency (Call 911 first if necessary)
• Collaborates with other Johns Hopkins All Children’s specialists to provide patients additional specialty care, if needed

What to Expect

Our services include:

• New patient evaluations
• Medication management
• Collaborate with parents, medical professionals, teachers and mental health providers to provide treatment and accommodation plans for each stage of life
• Prescriptions and refills

Routine prescriptions and refills are handled only during regular office hours. Please allow 48 hours to complete refill requests. When you call for a refill, please give the name of the medication, the dosage, the number of pills, the phone number for your pharmacy or your mailing address for us to mail you a prescription.

Some medications, by law, cannot be called in to a pharmacy. You will need a written prescription. In these cases, you need to either pick up the prescription or request it be mailed to you.

Please allow one week delivery time by mail.

Meet Our Psychiatrists

Our experts help you and your child navigate mental health disorders through intervention and evaluation.

Learn more about our team