Pediatric Neuropsychiatry

The Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Program provides care for children and adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder and/or an intellectual disability with co-morbid conditions (medical and/or psychiatric).

Our neuropsychiatry services involve the following:

Behavioral/Communication treatment interventions is based on structuring the environment to maximize your child's understanding and independent functioning, thereby decreasing undesirable behaviors.
Psychotherapeutic interventions and evaluations to teach safe expression of emotions, academic and pre-vocational skills, independent leisure and self-care skills, and important social behaviors.
Careful medication adjustments as necessary to enhance the individual’s learning opportunities by helping to reduce overwhelming issues including anxiety, irritability, obsessions and compulsions, aggression, and self injury.
Medical evaluations to ensure that physical problems, including experience of pain, are not contributing to behavioral issues. Evaluations may include laboratory and other diagnostic tests and medical consultations with recommendations.

Teach effective intervention methods to families and community service providers, including schools, to promote smooth transitions from the hospital setting back into the community. The intervention plan is tailored to your child's specific needs.

We provides psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and consultations for children and adolescents with autism, developmental disabilities, mental retardation and other brain-based disabilities. Children with these problems have delays or deficits in cognitive, sensory, motor, communication or social skills. Many of these children also develop maladaptive behavior or emotional problems that result in subjective distress, disruption of family life or interference with participation in the school or community.

Our programs emphasize treatment that alleviates the underlying developmental disorder, promote appropriate learning and social behavior and directly treat coexisting mood or behavioral disorders. Treatment often involves direct interventions with the child, but may also require changes in the child's environment, especially the family and school.

Specific treatments offered include pharmacotherapy, individual therapy, parent behavioral counseling, family therapy and coordination with the child's school. Skill enhancement targeting one or more of the child's primary disabilities often requires special education or allied health treatments that occur in other settings.