JFK University Medical Center – Center for Behavioral Health – Edison, New Jersey
65 James Street, Edison, New Jersey, 08820
Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Insurance
Payment Options
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Self-pay options
Addiction Resource Score
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8.0
Out of 10
For people and families dealing with mental health and drug use disorders, the Center for Behavioral Health at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, NJ offers a variety of outpatient services. The center helps both adults and teens by providing specialized care through its Adult Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), medication-assisted treatment, and a number of support and relapse prevention groups. The goal of their programs is to help people who are having problems with drugs and mental health.
Individual, group, and family therapy, as well as psychiatric evaluations and medication control, are all part of treatment at the center. The building also has therapy groups for things like Anger Management, Young Adult Psychotherapy, and Coping Skills Development. The center focuses on a caring, nonjudgmental approach, and does thorough evaluations to make sure that each patient’s treatment plan is unique. The Center for Behavioral Health makes sure that patients get the right amount of treatment to help them get better by focusing on comprehensive care and support.
Treatment Options
The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:
- Mentoring/peer support
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Individualized Treatment
The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Screening for tobacco use
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
Treatment Modalities
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Intervention Services
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Motivational interviewing
- Anger management
- Relapse prevention
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
- Individual psychotherapy
Conditions Treated
- Alcoholism
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Co-occurring Disorders
Levels Of Care
- Outpatient
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Aftercare
License and Accreditation
- State mental health department
- State department of health
- Hospital licensing authority
- The Joint Commission
- SAMHSA certification for opioid treatment program (OTP)
Ancillary Services
- Case management service
- Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Mental health services
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