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Psychiatry (Child and Adolescent)
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Many children and adolescents experience mental health problems that can interfere with their normal development and daily life activities. Some disorders are mild and with treatment can be successfully addressed within a short period. Other conditions are more severe and require long-term intervention. The National Institute of Mental Health reports the following:
- Research studies have shown that up to about 5 percent of children and up to 8 percent of adolescents in the U.S. suffer from depression.
- Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health problems that occur in children and adolescents.
- Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are common among adolescent and young women in the United States.
The Child Psychiatry service of NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital provides help for these and other psychiatric conditions and disorders. Most young people who experience mental health problems can return to normal daily lives if they receive appropriate and timely treatment.
Diagnostic and Treatment Services
Children's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital's Emergency Department offers one of the only dedicated psychiatric programs in the country designed specifically for the evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies. In October 2004, in coordination with Child Psychiatry and the Pediatric Emergency Department, the first New York State Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders was established. At our facility, children having psychiatric emergencies are evaluated in a separate emergency department that is staffed around the clock by a psychiatric staff, including a child psychiatrist, nurses, case managers, and psychologists. Patients receive rapid comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and, when indicated, can be held up to 72 hours in extended observation beds for stabilization. The Children's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program has decreased the number of children admitted to inpatient psychiatric units from 40 percent to under 10 percent.
The Child Psychiatry Division also offers:
- Diagnostic Evaluation Clinic This service provides routine psychiatric evaluations for all non-emergency referrals to Child Psychiatry.
- Children's Anxiety and Depression Clinic Through this clinic, pediatric patients can receive psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments for a broad range of mood and anxiety disorders.
- Pediatric Consultation and Liaison Clinic Psychiatric consultation is provided to children and adolescents who are hospitalized, and outpatient services are provided to medically ill children who are also experiencing mental health problems.
- Disruptive Behaviors Disorders Clinic Psychopharmacological, parent training and psychotherapeutic treatments are available to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.
- Neuropsychiatry Clinic In the Neuropsychiatry Clinic, provides psychiatric services are provided to children with pervasive developmental disorders, psychotic disorders, seizure disorders, and somatoform disorders (physical ailments, such as pain, nausea, depression, dizziness, or concerns for which no adequate medical explanation has been found).
- Special Needs Clinic Mental health and case management services are provided by the Special Needs Clinic to children with HIV, or to those whose lives are affected by HIV, as well as their adult family members.
Contact
- Pediatric Psychiatry and Mental Health
- (212) 305-0924
