BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
Elliot Behavioral Health Services Center
for Child
& Adolescent Evaluation
Recognizing a longstanding community need, Elliot Professional Services has developed a service dedicated to child and adolescent behavioral health. Parents, pediatricians and educators have struggled for years to understand the cognitive, emotional, learning needs and potential of children and adolescents. In an effort to access quality services, families have traveled to Boston and other cities to consult with professionals, obtain advice, and discuss concerns about their children.
These quality services are now available locally through Elliot Behavioral Health Services, Center for Child and Adolescent Evaluation conveniently located in Bedford, New Hampshire.
The Center for Child and Adolescent Evaluation is the only one of its kind in New Hampshire and is staffed by a team of mental health professionals who tailor both evaluation and treatment services to the individual needs of each child.
Children who participate in neuropsychological evaluation will be provided with services to understand potential problems or issues such as learning disabilities, effects of traumatic brain injury, attention problems, and other memory and learning issues. Through understanding the psychological process that may effect learning, barriers to academic and social or emotional progress can be removed to help each child reach their maximum potential.
Psychotherapy services, offered in Bedford, or through referral to the main campus of Elliot Behavioral Health Services, are available independently or in conjunction with other treatment modalities, to provide an integrated treatment approach to most problems.
Medication evaluation and management services are designed to assess the individual child's potential need and ability to benefit from medication intervention in biologically based conditions that provide an effective and less intrusive treatment approach.
Communication of results and consultation with parents, school, and other medical or mental health professionals ensures that specific interventions and treatment approaches are implemented within the child's family and school community, as appropriate.
Our Goal and Mission Statement
To accurately assess each child's needs and potential so as to provide hope, stability and functioning.
Mission Statement
We are a group of mental health care providers who are dedicated to the promotion of quality, compassionate, caring and accessible care. We realize the importance of each patient and each provider of care in the patient/provider relationship. We are guided by the desire to work within the Elliot Health System to create a healthy community.
Your child's first visit to our office is extremely important. Your knowledge of your child's health history can help us to care for them better. Please consider the following:
- Does your child have any major health problems?
- Know your family's medical history
- Bring a list of medications your child is currently taking (if any)
- A Parent/Legal Guardian must sign the consent for treatment
- Bring any prior evaluations or behavioral health history reports
Both parent and child can expect to meet with a qualified professional who will begin to assess the child's needs. A preliminary treatment plan may be suggested, which may detail recommendations for further assessment, referral to a more appropriate setting, or ongoing treatment with Manchester Counseling Services. At this point, it may be determined that services continue at this site or referred to a more appropriate setting.
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
Evening appointments may be arranged. Please call us at 603-623-5608 to make an appointment.
Schedule an Appointment
Your family's time is valuable. If you are to be delayed in arriving at our office, we ask that you please call to let us know, as it may be necessary to reschedule your visit. Also, please notify our office 24 hours in advance of any changes in your office appointment. We reserve the right to charge those patients who cancel appointments without 24-hour notification.
- Neuropsychological Assessment
- Cognitive/intelligence testing
- Achievement and academic testing
- Memory and learning evaluation
- Social/emotional testing
- Consultation to parents and school systems
- Medication evaluation and management
- Psychotherapy
- Community education programs
- Safety/risk assessments
Laboratory Services
Laboratory services are sometimes required when prescribing medication in order to monitor therapeutic levels. Elliot Health System has several convenient lab locations. Our staff can assist in accessing these services.
Elliot Behavioral Health Services Center
for Child
& Adolescent Evaluation
445 Cypress Street, Suite 8
Manchester, NH 03103
603- 668-4079
Dr. Andrew Nathan, Psy.D.
Neuropsychologist
Dr. Nathan received his Doctor of Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno and completed his Fellowship in child neuropsychology at McLean Hospital's Learning Evaluation Clinic in Belmont, Massachusetts. He also holds a Masters of Arts in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University of Arts and Sciences in Madison, New Jersey. He is a member of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist in the State of New Hampshire.
Jodi Carner ARNP
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner
Ms. Carner is certified as a child and adolescent clinical nurse specialist and licenses as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke College, Emory University, and Boston University. Over the past 20 plus years she has worked on both an inpatient and outpatient basis with children, adolescents, and adults, and specializes in the medication management of childhood psychiatric disorders.
Grace Tallarico, M.D
As a child and adolescent specialist, Dr. Tallarico works with young people living with mood and anxiety disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, mental retardation, disruptive behavior disorders, ADHD, self-injurious behaviors, psychotic disorders, and substance abuse.
Dr. Tallarico is board eligible in child and adolescent psychiatry and general psychiatry. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology.
Caitlin Macaulay, Ph.D.
Dr. Caitlin Macaulay, a Clinical Neuropsychologist, comes to Manchester Counseling Services following the completion of her two year post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital. She received her MA and PhD from the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno, CA with a specialization in Neuropsychology. She then completed a one-year neuropsychology internship at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont. As a Neuropsychologist, she specializes in evaluating people for a variety of reasons including people who are experiencing memory difficulty, inattention, have sustained a brain injury, stroke, or heart attack, have multiple sclerosis, cancer, HIV/AIDS, or psychiatric illness (i.e., depression, anxiety), have learning difficulties, or medical conditions that affect thinking abilities. She is board eligible and accepting new adolescent through geriatric patients.
Stephanie Bolton-Chinnery, LICSW
Ms. Chinnery graduated with a Masters degree in social work from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work in 1996 and has been a licensed social worker in the state of NH since 1999. She has experience in a variety of settings, including residential, school and outpatient mental health agencies.
Ms. Chinnery works primarily with children, adolescents, and their families, but also provides individual therapy for adults, mainly women. Her areas of speciality include individual therapy with children and adolescents, ADHD/ADD, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, school issues, behavioral issues, issues arising from divorce, and abuse/neglect issues.
