Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that specialises in diagnosing and treating mental health disorders in children and teenagers, Most mental health issues develop during adolescence, therefore identifying youth mental health needs and pathways to care is critical. Our child and adolescent psychiatrists are specialist doctors trained to provide expert, evidence-informed, family-focused mental health care to infants, children, adolescents and youths.

Our child and adolescent mental health services cover:

  • Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Intellectual disabilities
  • Communication disorders (language disorders, speech sound disorders, social or pragmatic communication disorders, childhood-onset fluency disorder)
  • Specific learning disorders
  • Autism spectrum disorder
  • ADHD
  • Neurodevelopmental motor disorders (developmental coordination disorders, dyspraxia, stereotypic disorder, tic disorders, Tourette’s syndrome)
  • Depressive disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Trauma and stressor related disorders
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders
  • Substance-related and/or internet addictive disorders
  • Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Bipolar and related disorders
  • Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
  • Somatic symptoms and related disorders
  • Feeding and eating disorders
  • Elimination disorders (enuresis and encopresis)