The child and adolescent psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and the treatment of disorders of thinking, feeling and/or behavior affecting children, adolescents, and their families. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers families the advantages of a medical education, the medical traditions of professional ethics, and medical responsibility for providing comprehensive care.
Conditions We Treat
Our program focuses on children and adolescents, though we often care for these patients well into adulthood.
The most common conditions we treat include:
- Adjustment disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Conduct disorders
- Major depression
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Psychosis
- Substance use disorders
- Tourette’s syndrome and motor tic disorders