The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers children and their families specialized and experienced pediatric mental health professionals. With more than 50 years of service in pediatric mental health, we are staffed like no other hospital or medical center in the area, striving to help kids lead happier and healthier lives.
Clinicians in the department provide state-of-the art psychiatric and psychological services, education, and advocacy. The department's mission includes providing national leadership in the education of mental health care professionals and advancing knowledge through research.
Children of all ages, and from every socioeconomic background, are treated for a wide variety of problems including adjustment disorders, emotional problems related to pediatric disorders, psychoses, mood disorders, anxiety, developmental delays, behavior disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and learning disabilities.
The department is staffed by a multi-disciplinary group of 50 professionals, including representatives from child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, speech pathology, recreational therapy, and milieu therapy.
The department is organized into three services:
- Outpatient services — provides assessment services and short- and long-term treatment for a wide variety of patients ages zero through seventeen years.
- Inpatient psychiatry — designed to provide short-term acute care for psychiatric patients between three and seventeen years of age who cannot be maintained in outpatient settings.
- Partial hospitalization — a short term program for children age four to fourteen years who require more intensive services than outpatient care. The partial hospitalization program emphasizes family education and participation.
Children's Memorial is located minutes from downtown Chicago on the mid-north side, in one of the city's most attractive neighborhoods. Chicago is one of the nation's leading medical, educational and cultural centers. All the resources of metropolitan Chicago are conveniently reached from Children's Memorial Hospital by public transportation or private automobile.