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Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City offers nationally recognized psychiatry and behavioral sciences services. As part of the only academic medical center in Kansas, the health system offers mental and behavioral healthcare for children, adolescents and adults. We treat patients in the areas of addiction psychiatry, health psychology, pain management, general psychiatry, psychological evaluation and medical intervention (PEMI), including evaluations and support for bariatric, transgender, transplant, neurostimulator and cancer care.
We are committed to high-quality, effective patient care through a team of board-certified psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, experienced psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and other professionals.
We offer a variety of appointment types. Learn more or call 913-588-1227 to schedule now.
Specialties
Treatments
We offer many treatments, including:
- State-of-the-art psycho pharmacological treatments that are appropriate for people who may be pregnant or nursing, have other conditions or treatment plans
- Diagnosis-specific individualized psychotherapy services
- Electroconvulsive therapy, a medical treatment for severe depression or bipolar disorder that involves passing small electric currents through the brain to change brain chemistry
- Ketamine intravenous therapy and esketamine spray to treat depression that has not responded to other treatment
- Comprehensive addiction treatment for opioid use disorder, which includes the use of effective medications, such as methadone, suboxone, vivitrol and once-monthly Sublocade®
- Specialty care for treatment-resistant depression, which includes transcranial magnetic stimulation, which uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain
- Vagus nerve stimulation, a treatment that involves using a device to stimulate the vagus nerve by delivering electrical impulses
Inpatient services
Why choose us
We offer comprehensive inpatient care at the No. 1 hospital in Kansas as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We provide mental health consultations and access to leading-edge mental health care. Our mental health services support procedures, comorbidities and other comprehensive treatment plans.
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Doctors at The University of Kansas Health System are care providers and researchers at the forefront of new medical discoveries. From primary care to complex conditions, we offer hundreds of specialists.
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Residencies in psychiatry and behavioral sciences
For decades, health system leadership has advanced academic medicine through teaching at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. As the second largest residency program in Kansas, it’s estimated that half of all Kansas board-certified, practicing psychiatric providers have benefitted from our nationally recognized teaching program and its physicians, providing leading-edge care to patients every day.
Leading research and clinical trials
As part of one of the nation's premier academic medical centers, our care providers are committed to research and scientific discovery through the University of Kansas Medical Center. We can often include our patients in potentially lifesaving clinical trials and treatment options not available anywhere else.