Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic (OPC)
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic offers children, teenagers, and their families
a wide range of mental health treatment options. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry OPC serves children
and adolescents (age 0-18) with emotional, behavior, developmental or learning problems. A multidisciplinary
team of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, and social workers staffs
the clinic. In addition to being a center for community-based psychiatric services, the clinic is an academic
training site for child psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. We are committed to providing the most
effective strategies for addressing childhood and adolescent psychiatric conditions including emotional, behavioral,
developmental and learning problems. Services provided include evidence-based practices, such as individual psychotherapy
(including behavioral therapy), group therapy, parent training/support, child skills training, art therapy and family therapy,
as well as medication management. Individual psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment are also available in
our clinic for the parents and adult family members of our child and adolescent patients.
In addition to providing therapeutic interventions, clinicians work closely with schools and community
agencies to insure coordinated care and to provide advocacy and consultation services. This allows us to
supplement clinic-bound therapeutic interventions with more comprehensive services when they are needed.
For further information, call our Intake Coordinator at 212-523-3082.
There are over 18,000 patient visits per year at the Child and Family Institute. Therapeutic programs are
designed based on evidence based practices for the subspecialty modality. Family involvement is emphasized
for both diagnostic and therapeutic services.
The CFI Outpatient Department will be implementing New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) program Child and Family Clinic Plus (CFCP) with in its mission to identify those at risk of developing mental health problems and to provide them with treatments that are evidence-based and family-focused. We have been awarded 2 clusters of the CFCP grant, one for Manhattan Schools and one for Manhattan Preventive Programs. We have 9 partner schools and 3 preventive agencies with whom we have already been collaborating and providing psychoeducation about the benefits of screening. We plan to continue to provide community education about emotional wellness both to parents involved as well as to school and agency staff.
No person is denied access to service on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion,
sexual orientation, or disability. In the event we are unable to meet a special need of a client, an
appropriate referral will be made. It is the policy of the clinic to accept insurance, certain managed
care plans, and private pay patients. For further information, call our Intake Coordinator at 212-523-3082.
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