The Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
provides a comprehensive spectrum of outpatient and hospital-based
services.
Outpatient services include evaluating primary
psychiatric and behavioral disorders. Our professionals offer
neuropsychological and psychoeducational assessments and consultation
for children and adolescents who have primary illnesses complicated
by problems of adjustment or neurological difficulties. Outpatient
treatment may involve individual, group and family psychotherapy
and psychopharmacology, tailored to the individual needs of
the child and family.
The inpatient program offers psychiatric evaluation
and treatment services to children and adolescents with more
serious problems, such as eating disorders, mood disorders,
obsessive compulsive and Tourette's disorder, psychosis, or
serious medical illness complicated by noncompliance or other
psychiatric disorders. The Cleveland Clinic's inpatient services
provide care to children between the ages of 4 and 18.
The supervising inpatient child psychiatrist
works closely with a team of pediatricians, pediatric psychologists,
psychiatric nurses, social workers and occupational therapists
to develop an appropriate treatment plan for each child. Parents
and other family members are actively involved in the diagnostic
and treatment process on the inpatient units.
With shorter inpatient stays now the norm, the
section offers transitional partial hospital programs. Inpatient
hospital treatments and educational services are provided
during the day, and the child returns home overnight to facilitate
a smooth transition back to the family, home and school.
For children who are hospitalized at The Children's
Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic, our psychiatric consultation-liaison
service is available. Indications for consultation include
suicidal behavior; psychopharmacologic assessment; delirium;
disruptive behavior interfering with medical treatment; complex
diagnostic dilemmas such as conversion syndromes; and coping
with major or chronic medical illness, including transplantation,
cardiac surgery and cancer.
Through its collaborations with community mental
health agencies, including Beech Brook, New Directions, and
the Positive Education Program, the section has access to
additional clinical services, including community-based partial
hospital/day treatment, adolescent chemical dependency services,
residential treatment, therapeutic foster care and in-home
treatment, among other services.
Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit The 13-bed Psychiatric
Unit at The Children's Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic is
designed to optimize patient care in a nontraditional hospital
setting. The comfortable, dormitory-style, three-bed rooms
provide a homelike atmosphere. Intervention is provided by
board-certified pediatric and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatric
psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and social workers.
During their stay, children wear normal school
or play clothes and attend school five hours a day. The unit's
focus of care is helping children develop self-esteem, learn
to set and accomplish goals, and make decisions about their
own treatment.
Kathleen
M. Quinn, M.D.
David
S. Rue, M.D.
Lisa
Stanford, Ph.D.
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