Specific Department Activities

• Evaluation and treatment of psychological factors associated with medical illness; including adjustment issues, adherence to prescribed regimens, parent-child issues, and staff-patient-family dynamics.
  
• Psychodiagnostic, psychoeducational and neuropsychological assessment
  
• Consultation and liaison with physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals
  
• On-call services, including assessment of patients at high risk for dangerous behavior
  
• Consultation on an emergent basis to the CHOC emergency department, all medical inpatient units, and CHOC medical outpatient clinics
  
• Individual, family, and group psychotherapy
  
• Child psychiatry services
  
• School re-entry services
  
• Participation in medical services’ rounds and psychosocial rounds
  
• Provision of educational seminars to residents and medical staff members (interns work with residents on interviewing skills during 1 rotation)
  
• Support/psycho-educational groups
  
• Pain management evaluations and treatment services
  
• Language screening clinic for bilingual children
  
• Assessments and psychotherapy conducted in Spanish for children and families (for interns who are Spanish speaking, Spanish language group supervision of cases is provided)
  
• Infant development and developmental disabilities evaluation, consultation and treatment