Participation in consultation to the Department of Pediatrics and work with behavioral pediatrics is also included. Formal supervision of approximately four hours weekly is provided by child psychiatry faculty and senior fellows. Residents also may elect to provide supervision to an outside agency or pursue research activity in child psychiatry. This unit is an active setting with an average length of stay of five days. Intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, and inpatient detoxification are all part of an integrated system of clinical care services for adults and adolescents with substance-related disorders.
Teams treat six to ten patients.
Daily rounds are held with systematic contribution from nursing, social services, occupational therapy, and other involved staff. Milieu and multidisciplinary understanding and treatment of patients is stressed. Psychosocial and biologic perspectives on illness are actively utilized with experience and training in the full range of biologic treatments. Residents are encouraged to familiarize themselves with a wide variety of modalities and are free to pursue more systematic training in selected areas. In addition, special experiences in geriatric and forensic psychiatry are available.