Our Division's medical staff are specialists in psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders that can impact children and adolescents, with a special focus on patients who are hospitalized or chronically ill.
Our board-certified pediatric psychiatrists diagnose and assist in the management of primary psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders of behavior, mood, or thought, and psychiatric symptoms that are releated to an underlying medical condition or trauma.
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service
The Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service addresses special emotional and behavioral problems of hospitalized or chronically ill children and adolescents.
Outpatient Psychiatric Services
1. Provided for inpatients admitted to our hospital
2. Provided at the hospital's Mental Health Clinic (
referrals)
Our experienced pediatric psychiatrists also are available to provide outpatient psychiatric evaluation and therapy for a variety of psychiatric disorders, including:
• Attention deficit disorders (ADHD)
• Anxiety disorders
• Depression and other mood disorders
• Disruptive behavior disorders
• Eating disorders
• Psychosomatic and somatoform disorders
• Psychotic disorders
• Stress-related disorders
• Trauma-related disorders
• Other psychiatric disorders first evidenced in infancy, childhood and adolescence
Activities of our division are led by Susan Turkel, M.D. 
