Devereux Pennsylvania Children’s Services

Devereux Pennsylvania Children’s Behavioral Health Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania, is the only free-standing children’s psychiatric hospital in Chester County, offering acute inpatient treatment for children and adolescents ages 5 to 18. The facility provides 24/7 admission services, helping young patients in acute mental health crisis with a focus on stabilization, safety, and individualized treatment planning. Stays typically range from three to 21 days, with longer admissions as clinically indicated.

The center delivers comprehensive psychiatric services, psychological services, medication management, behavioral management, family therapy, educational interventions, problem-solving groups, and community interventions to support recovery and successful discharge. Therapeutic approaches include individual, group, and milieu therapies, trauma-informed care, and DBT skills groups. Conditions treated encompass suicidal gestures and attempts, self-injurious behaviors, depression, aggression, psychosis, autism spectrum disorders, and drug and alcohol issues. Children and adolescents from southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states benefit from highly coordinated care aimed at successful reintegration into their communities.