Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment designed to prevent psychiatric hospitalizations and reduce the need for emergency care services.

Learn More About Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Emergency/Crisis Services

South Shore Mental Health’s Emergency Services Program (ESP) provides in-home, community, and hospital ER-based services to children, teens, and adults who are at risk of harming themselves or others. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ESP’s master’s level clinicians provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment to support and stabilize clients while transitioning them to the appropriate level of care within the community. SSMH’s Emergency Services Program also includes an open, six-bed stabilization unit that offers an alternative to hospitalization for clients in need of short-term crisis intervention.

Learn More About Emergency/Crisis Services

Home Based Services

South Shore Mental Health offers two programs developed by the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI).

In-Home Therapy is available to MassHealth clients age 20 and under who are at risk of inpatient hospitalization, transitioning from acute treatment, or in need of support beyond the scope of outpatient services.

Therapeutic Mentoring is available to MassHealth clients age 20 and under who are referred by a CBHI-based service or other provider.

Learn More About Home Based Services

Life Skills Program

Located in downtown Quincy, South Shore Mental Health’s Successful Employment Program (SEP) serves young adults (16-25) who have been treated for a major mental illness within the past year and are searching for employment.

Our Transition Resources and Community Supports (TRACS) program, also located in Quincy, serves 16-to-25-year-olds who are currently in treatment for mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse issues.

Learn More About Life Skills Programs

Outpatient Counseling

With outpatient offices in Quincy, Plymouth, and Wareham, South Shore Mental Health’s Bayview Associates provides diagnostic evaluation, psychological and neuropsychological testing, psychopharmacology, and individual and family therapy to children, teens, and adults with depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, substance abuse, and other issues.

Our North River Associates team in Marshfield also provides individual and group outpatient counseling and medication management to children, teens, and adults.

Learn More About Outpatient Counseling

Outreach

Based out of offices in Quincy, Plymouth, and Wareham, the Community Outreach Counseling Services (Outreach) team provides therapy in homes, schools, and temporary housing to MassHealth-insured clients who are not able to consistently reach outpatient offices, or for whom in-home treatment is clinically indicated.

Learn More About Outreach

School Based Services

South Shore Mental Health works with a number of school systems throughout the South Shore in providing consultation to teachers and administrators to assist them in identifying students with emotional and developmental difficulties, and those who are “at risk” of dropping out of school. Our therapists also conduct group seminars for school staff.

Learn More About School Based Services