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Mental Health/Behavioral Health Center
Who Benefits from Our Services?
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Physicians whose patients are suffering from acute depression, anxiety, paranoia, schizophrenia, or suicidality and who require a safe, structured environment |
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Hospital emergency room crisis evaluators who require immediate placement of patients suffering from acute emotional distress |
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Nursing home physicians and direct care staff whose residents are exhibiting acute mental health problems (such as bizarre or inappropriate behavior, serious depression and aggression) |
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Any individual experiencing acute mental health concerns (access can be obtained through Maryland General Hospital’s Emergency Room) |
Our treatment includes:
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Psychiatric, medical, functional skill and psychosocial assessments |
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Medication management and education |
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Coping skills education |
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Nursing focus groups |
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Group, individual and family therapy |
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Skill building activities |
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ECT |
Our professional staff includes psychiatrists, social workers, therapeutic recreation specialists, nurses and occupational therapists, all working in a safe and stimulating environment that provides space for therapeutic recreation, and encourages interaction among patients, family and staff.
Referrals for admission are accepted 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling 410–225–8155.
Adult Services
Maryland General’s Behavioral Health Center provides inpatient and outpatient acute mental health care designed to meet the needs of both geriatric and adult patients. The center has a 16–bed adult unit and a 12–bed geriatric unit.
The inpatient program provides care to acutely ill adult psychiatric patients requiring a special support system that may not be available on an outpatient basis. Inpatient programs provide medication management, individualized treatment planning, therapy (group, individual, occupational, family, and skill building activities), substance abuse services and electro convulsive therapy.
The gero–psychiatry program cares for geriatric patients with mental illness. While their symptoms are similar to younger adults with mental illness, an age–appropriate treatment program is used with this population.
Referrals for admission are accepted 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling
410–225–8155.
Outpatient Behavioral Health Services
The Outpatient Behavioral Health Center at Maryland General Hospital is an outpatient mental health program dedicated to helping individuals, ages 18 years and older, that suffer from emotional difficulties ranging from adjustment disorders to severe psychiatric disorders.
The clinical director is Maria Slodzinski, Psy.D. Dr. Slodzinski has been a staff psychologist at Maryland General Hospital since 1996. Most recently she was a psychologist at "Just For Kids." She is a graduate of the University of the Philippines, and received her master of arts degree and her doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical training at the University of Maryland Department of Psychiatry and her post-doctoral clinical fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychiatry.
At the center, Dr. Slodzinski provides direct patient care, inclusing diagnostic evaluations, psychological and neuropsychological evaluation, and individual, family and group therapy.
Office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To learn more about the referral process, or to make and appointment, call 410-462-5767.
Children’s Services
Maryland General’s “Just For Kids” Program, for children 18 and under, provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment of the following:
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Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit are behavioral disorders that prevent a child from completing tasks and from exercising age–appropriate inhibition. Some of the characteristics of hyperactivity/attention deficit are a failure to listen to instructions, a lack of personal organization, fidgeting, talking too much, and having trouble paying attention to and responding to details. Hyperactivity and attention deficit disorders can be seen in children separately or together. |
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Impulsivity is an inability to limit one’s first reaction to a statement or situation. It is also characterized by acting before thinking. Children who demonstrate impulsivity may blurt out inappropriate comments, become very impatient with others, or take things that don’t belong to them. |
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Depression is characterized by many things, among them persistent sadness, hopelessness, guilt, worthlessness and a loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyed. |
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Anxiety is exaggerated worrisome thoughts and tension about everyday routine events and activities, lasting six months or more. It can be accompanied by physical symptoms such as fatigue, headache and muscle tension. |
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Aggression |
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School Problems |
For more information about the program, or to schedule an appointment or evaluation, please call 410–462–5756.
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