Child Psychiatry

The clinical services provide the node around which training and research is organized.  While there is some overlap in the services provided at CYFP and HSC, there are unique and distinct areas of specialization between these two key sites. Programs and services at HSC as distinct from CYFP include: Eating Disorders, Neuropsychiatry (ADHD); Anxiety Disorders and OCD; Infant Psychiatry; CYFP as distinct from HSC, Youth Addictions and Concurrent Disorders; Mood disorders, Young Offender Assessments; Gender Identity Disorders, Early Onset Psychoses; Substance Abuse Prevention for African Canadian and Caribbean Youth (SAPACCY). HSC has a  psychiatric emergency service, an inpatient unit and a consultation liaison service to medical and surgical services. CYFP provides outreach to community agencies and offers a program for the treatment of children with disruptive behaviour disorders, a well established fire-setting prevention program and a general consultation clinic.

Community based Mental Health Centres at the Hincks-Dellcrest, Youthdale, and George Hull provide experience and training that complements the hospital based experience at HSC and CAMH. For instance, Hincks-Dellcrest provides community based prevention programs to infants, and preschoolers and their families at two high density development areas in Toronto. Likewise, George Hull offers collaborative mental health partnerships with community groups, focused on early intervention and prevention programs with children 0-6 years of age.

Faculty have established strong working relationships and collaborations with other departments within their host institution as well as University-based programs in neuroscience, pediatrics, psychology, and education and others. This rich mixture of faculty and trainees from diverse disciplines broadens the perspective, widens our training horizon and is reflected in our research and scholarship