Psychiatry and Psychological Services: Why Children's

• Children's Medical Center provides a full continuum of care including outpatient services, intensive outpatient services, day treatment services, partial hospitalization, and inpatient hospitalization services.
• We have the largest child and adolescent eating disorders program in the state. More than 100 children and adolescents a year are treated in our eating disorders program.
• The Crystal Charity Autism Project provides comprehensive, coordinated services to families in the areas of assessment, intervention, case management, consultation and research.
• Children's is the only facility in the Dallas and Fort Worth area treating medically ill children and adolescents who also have psychiatric disorders
• The day treatment program excels at evaluating and treating children who are having school difficulties, and helping children transition back to school after treatment.
• Our physicians and psychologists consist of UT Southwestern Medical Center faculty who are locally and nationally recognized as experts in the following specialty areas of treatment: autism, eating disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, suicidality and medical conditions with psychiatric problems.
• Our program is nationally recognized for its' expertise in the research and treatment of depression and suicidality.
• Over 500 children a month receive outpatient services in our psychiatry, psychology and neuropsychology services.
• Over 1200 new patients a year are evaluated through the psychiatry consult and liaison service which provides psychiatric consultation to the medical services at Children's Medical Center.
• A number of landmark national studies conducted in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood depression have been conducted by our renowned faculty.