The
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry exemplifies the
three-part mission of OHSU: healing, teaching and discovery.
HEALING:
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
located on the
seventh floor of Doernbecher Children's Hospital provides care and consultation for
the full range of childhood mental health disorders.
The Children's Psychiatric Day Treatment Center, located off campus
in nearby Beaverton, offers an interdisciplinary milieu
for treatment of severely disturbed children aged 3 to 7 years five days a week, year
round.
TEACHING: The division's
Training Program draws
upon the many multi-disciplinary educational resources of OHSU and diverse health care
environments in the community to prepare medical students, general psychiatry residents, and fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry
for private and/or group practice.
DISCOVERY: OHSU child psychiatrists are involved in numerous funded research studies,
including an adolescent suicide prevention project in collaboration with the department of
pediatrics, cross-cultural research to improve treatment for children suffering from post-
traumatic stress disorder with the Intercultural
Psychiatric Program, and an exploration of the effects
of melatonin in children and adolescents with the OHSU Sleep Research Laboratory.