The University of Alabama at Birmingham Medicine has launched four new clinical services to expand access to mental healthcare in the region.
The new offerings include the TEAM Clinics — short for Treatment, Evaluation and multidisciplinary Approaches for Mental health — which focus on early intervention for patients experiencing first episodes of psychosis, mood disorders or substance use disorders. The clinics cover critical age ranges: 12 to 40 for psychosis and 16 to 30 for mood or substance use, according to a Dec. 30 news release.
The first-episode psychosis clinic, which has operated since 2011, is built around a multidisciplinary care model that includes child and adult psychiatrists, a psychologist and a social worker. It emphasizes a rapid assessment, frequent follow-up and family education.
It also opened a transcranial magnetic stimulation clinic within the Center for Psychiatric Medicine, according to the release. The TMS clinic offers FDA-approved, noninvasive treatment for individuals with treatment resistant depression and related disorders.
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