Patient Care: Clinical Innovation and Service

The outpatient clinics provide psychiatric care to children and adolescents with a variety of diagnoses from 2 to 18 years of age. Clinic staff, consisting of child psychiatrists and psychologists, child psychiatry and psychology fellows, and general psychiatry residents, provides initial evaluations, second opinions, and ongoing treatment.

Clinical Services

• Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Clinic
• Early Psychosis Clinic
• Eating Disorders Clinic
• General Child Psychiatry Clinic
• Mood Disorders Clinic
• Psychological Assessment Clinic
• Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic
• School-Based Mental Health

Services Provided

• Initial Evaluations
• Second Opinion Evaluations
• Psychotherapy (including individual, family, and parenting)
• Pharmacotherapy
• Psychological Testing (differential diagnosis, learning disabilities attention problems, mental retardation)

The Comprehensive Pediatric Care Unit is a 15-bed unit that serves children and adolescents with eating disorder related medical problems severe enough to require hospitalization.

The Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Service provides inpatient and outpatient psychiatric consultation and treatment to the general pediatric and pediatric and surgical subspecialty services at Packard Children's Hospital and covers the emergency room at Stanford University Medical Center.

• The Evaluation and Brief Intervention team provides a Consultation Clinic for patients who have a Stanford primary care physician and require urgent assessment, as well as an evaluation clinic for short-term treatment (less than three months).
• Continuity Clinic

• Mood Disorders Program
• Bipolar Disorders Clinic
  
• Geropsychiatry Clinic
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• Women’s Wellness Clinic
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Program
• Center for Integrative Medicine
• Medical Psychotherapy Clinic    
• Addiction Medicine/Dual Diagnosis Clinic
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• Sleep Health and Insomnia
• INSPIRE clinic
• Virtual Reality-Immersive Technology(VR-IT) Clinic

• Neuropsychiatry
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• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation

The Medical Psychiatry and Consult Liaison supports an active Consultation and Liaison service for hospitalized patients in other departments and patients seen in the Cancer Center. A new Integrated Behavioral Health Service is under development to support Stanford Primary Care Medicine.

The Psychosocial and Subspecialty Care Clinic provides psychotherapy including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Time-limited Psychodynamic Therapy, and Couples and Family Therapy for patients with a wide range of presenting problems.

The Individual Psychotherapy Clinic, which is staffed by psychiatry residents, provides the opportunity for patients to receive long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Other subspecialties include:

• Eating Disorders
• Sports Medicine
• Adult Dialectical Behavior Therapy       
• Wellness Program
• Couples and Family Therapy

Comprehensive Inpatient Care at Stanford University Medical Center offers in-depth evaluation and treatment of a broad range of psychiatric disorders. As part of a world-renowned university hospital, Stanford’s psychiatry service is prepared to treat individuals with complex and challenging illnesses.

The Inpatient Psychiatry Service at Stanford is recognized for its commitment to coordinating all patient care through a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, social workers and case managers.  Patient care is optimized through the availability of the full-range of resources available at Stanford University Medical Center. Located on the second floor of the hospital, the 29-bed Inpatient Psychiatry Service features both open unit (G2) and secured unit (H2) programs. Our treatment program is structured to maintain the safety, dignity, and confidentiality of every patient on the unit.

Care is provided utilizing appropriate treatment options that may include a variety of psychosocial interventions, psychopharmacologic treatments, and/or ECT. Consultation with additional medical specialty resources is available if required.  Coordination of care is accomplished through communication with other health-care providers, exploration of services available post-hospitalization, and consultation with family when possible.

For neurodevelopmental disorders, such as:

• Fragile X Syndrome
  
• Turner Syndrome
  
• Klinefelter Syndrome
• Williams Syndrome
• 22q deletion (VCFS) Syndrome
• Prader-Willi Syndrome       
• Behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with Intellectual Disability

Psychiatric and developmental disorders associated with medical risk factors

• Executive Function Clinic
• Fetal alcohol exposure
• Preterm birth
• Diabetes
• Disorders of sex development

VA Palo Alto Health Care System provides a broad array of mental health services, both inpatient and outpatient. We provide consultation, evaluation, and treatment for a variety of issues that can impact emotional well-being.  See more at: http://www.paloalto.va.gov/services/mental/

Vaden Health Center’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is dedicated to promoting student mental health and well-being by address concerns in a confidential and supportive setting.

Stanford Positive Care and Sexual Health Clinic provides adults living in the San Francisco Bay Area with access to anonymous STI testing, treatment, prevention, and education.

The mission of Arbor Free Clinic, one of two free clinics comprising the Cardinal Free Clinics, is to provide culturally appropriate, high quality transitional medical care for an underserved patient population and to educate and empower a new generation of healthcare leaders to proactively address health disparities and improve access to care in their communities.

• Sleep surgery
•  Insomnia
• Narcolepsy
• Restless legs syndrome
• Parasomnias
• Dentistry