Medical Coping and Wellness Clinic

The Medical Coping and Wellness Clinic (MCWC) is an outpatient child psychiatry clinic that serves LPCH patients whose primary mental health concern is related to their medical condition or in which patients’ emotional or behavioral concerns negatively impact the management of their medical condition. Examples include the following: adjustment to a new diagnosis; procedural preparation/anxiety(e.g., needle phobia, trouble with IVs); problems with medical treatment adherence; evaluations required for medical procedures (e.g., solid organ transplant evaluations); and behavioral or emotional problems that interfere with medical condition, treatment, rehabilitation, or maximization of functioning.

Our clinic is limited to patients who are actively followed for treatment by an LPCH medical team/providers.  A consultation and then subsequent feedback session may be scheduled to review current concerns, provide recommendations, and resources to help patients.  On occasion, time-limited psychotropic medication management and/or psychotherapy as a bridge to establishing local care, may be provided.

For  Referrals, please have your LPCH physician, physician’s assistant, or nurse practitioner submit a referral to Child Psychiatry.  

Medical Coping and Wellness Clinic Faculty

Lauren Mikula Schneider
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Paula Tran
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
Michelle Brown
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Katharine Dahl
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
Gisela Sandoval
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences

EVENTS

16th Annual Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) Conference - UPDATE: Conference has been postponed. 

2024 Bay Area Adult Autism/DD Conference - 12/7/24 at the Li Ka Shing Conference Center, Stanford, CA. Register here!

Mindfulness for Parents Class. Click here for details and registration

Positive Parenting During COVID-19 Series  for recorded webinars, click here

Autism Parent Support Group  Now via Zoom until further notice. Meets on second Mondays from 7-8:30pm (Sept.-June). To be added to the monthly email with participant zoom info, click here.

Stanford Parenting Center Classes