Jefferson's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior provides clinical and consultation services to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and its medical community. In addition, its staff focuses special attention on the consultation and treatment of the most common psychiatric problems of anxiety, depression, insomnia, substance abuse, eating disorders and sleep disorders.

The department's staff is also experienced in individual, couple, marital and family therapy and serves child, adolescent and adult outpatient populations on a sliding-fee basis.

The department's general care unit is for adult inpatients with moderate to more severe psychiatric conditions. The units simulate a constructive home environment as much as possible.

The Psychiatry Department at Jefferson has increased its emphasis on geriatrics with a 22-bed inpatient unit, housed at Wills Eye Hospital. This unit is for geriatric patients with impaired memory, depression, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke and other neurologic or psychiatric disorders.

A further focus is to provide treatment for psychiatric conditions related to medical or surgical conditions, including menstrual, menopausal or sexual disorders and problems related to pregnancy. In addition, the department offers a psychooncology service, staffed by a psychiatrist specially trained to counsel cancer patients.