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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Services
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In-Depth Evaluation and Assessment
A cornerstone of the Stony Brook program, our comprehensive outpatient evaluations provide patients and families with the most accurate formulation about a child's problems along with individualized treatment recommendations. These evaluations often are performed as second opinions for schools seeking detailed reports that will help the child obtain the appropriate school services. They sometimes are needed to advise in legal matters. And always, these evaluations and assessment help educate parents, guardians, and the child on the presence, nature and treatment of their condition. A routine evaluation begins with obtaining standardized ratings from parent and teacher, copies of past evaluations and hospital records if relevant, and an interview with the parent/caretaker and child. A detailed evaluation also includes a laboratory assessment of attention and impulsivity as well as a classroom observation.
Outpatient Services
Many of Stony Brook's psychiatric services are available on an outpatient basis, including comprehensive evaluations, medication management, individual therapy and parent training and support. We are also working to develop additional services for patient and families, including group therapy and crisis intervention services.
Inpatient Care
For children ages 5 through 12 with serious psychiatric disorders, we can provide 24-hour inpatient services in our 10-bed, locked unit. Children receive a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, medications if necessary, and appropriate therapeutic interventions, which may include behavior management programs and therapeutic recreation along with educational services through the BOCES program. A core component of treatment is parent training to reinforce inpatient treatment, better manage the child, and give parents a new set of coping skills. The inpatient team includes psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, a social worker, recreational therapists, and BOCES teachers.
Consultation Liaison Service
The consultation and liaison service provides comprehensive and timely psychiatric evaluations to pediatric patients throughout Stony Brook Children's Hospital. The consultation team assists with the management of psychological conditions and psychiatric disorders occurring in medically ill children, including complex medical/psychiatric diagnoses, acute stress reactions, adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, self-injurious behaviors or suicidal attempts/ideation and chronic pain. Through collaboration with the pediatric team involved in a child's care, we are able to help children and families overcome the difficulties they face.
School Program
Stony Brook Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has consulting agreements with Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) program which provides school services while the child is hospitalized. BOCES teachers help students maintain and develop their educational potential during hospitalization, create a routine, and develop new coping skills. The program is available to both regular and special education students. The BOCES team works closely with the school to assess the child's performance and ease the transition back to school. In addition, child and adolescent psychiatrists work in the Western Suffolk BOCES schools to provide psychiatric consultation within a student's normative functional environment. The doctors not only work as part of the school team, they also provide invaluable consultation to the community psychiatrists and other clinicians caring for these children.
Emergencies
In case of a psychiatric emergency, please call 911 or our 24-hour Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) at (631) 444-6050.