Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Residency
Programs & Services

Description of Institute of Living Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department Programs

Outpatient

• Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic (Braceland)
   
• Fellows’ Psychopharmacological and Therapy Clinic (Braceland)
  
  • Specializing in complex medication management
  • Therapies offered include play therapy, supportive, cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic informed
• Complex Medical and Neurodevelopmental Child & Adolescent Clinic (Gengras)
   
• Autism Consultation Service (Braceland)

Day Treatment Programs

• Right Track - Young Adult Partial Hospitalization Program for LGBTQ Youth (16 yo and up)
• TOPS Extended Day Treatment for Children & Adolescents (11-14 yo) (Braceland)

Child & Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program (Braceland)

• Child track (8-12 yo)
• Adolescent Track (13-18 yo)
• Advanced Services for Adolescents with Psychosis (ASAP) (13-18 yo)
• Substance Abuse Seven Challenges groups
• LGBTQ groups

Grace Webb School – therapeutic school for grades K-12 (Braceland)

• Offering elementary school, middle school, traditional high school, vocational high school, and high school for youth with psychotic disorders “CREST” (Cognitive Rehabilitation and Educational Skills Training).

Anxiety Disorder Center (Stearns)

• Offering diagnostic assessment, individual and group CBT for youth and adults.

Interventional Psychiatry (Donnelly)

• IV Ketamine
• TMS - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• ECT – Electroconvulsive Therapy

Research

• Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center- fMRI
   
• Clinical Trials in Children & Adolescents
  
  • Intranasal esketamine for suicidal patients requiring inpatient admissions
• Faculty Research/Academic Research
  
  • Dr. Malik/Dr. Loftus – IOL Homicide and Violence Assessment Tool
  • Dr. Malik/Dr. Namerow/Dr. Ruano- Pharmacogenomics Research
• Early Psychosis Research-Jimmy Choi

Inpatient (Donnelly)

• Adolescent Inpatient unit - 15 patients
• Child Inpatient Unit - 17 patients

Connecticut Children’s

• Connecticut Children’s Psychiatric Emergency Room (site of on call child psychiatry experience, highly preferred hospital for emergency child psychiatry evaluations)
   
• CL service (very active service seeing a variety of diagnostic questions, staffed by Connecticut Childrens child psychiatrists in addition to psychologists)
  
  • Delirium pathway
  • Eating Disorder pathway
  • Somatic Symptom Related Disorders pathway
  • Agitation pathway
  • Substance/Detox pathway
  • Suicide Assessment protocol

Access Mental Health

• Child psychiatry phone consultation service to Connecticut pediatricians, advising on medication and therapeutic services for their primary care patients with mental health issues.