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Child Psychiatry

Program & Director: Humberto Quintana, MD

The Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section headed by Dr. Martin Drell began in 1989. The two-year ACGME Accredited Fellowship Training Program accepts 2-3 residents per year. The program accepts candidates from all areas of the country, and graduates mostly stay in Louisiana in a variety of jobs in the private and public sector.

The program offers diverse clinical experience in working with infants, children, adolescences and their families. The training is balanced in both psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic and offers many research opportunities as well.

The main clinical sites are as follows:

1. New Orleans Adolescent Hospital

A 30-bed psychiatric hospital indigent and adolescents ages 6-18 years of age. This state -owned JCHO accredited facility serves children and adolescents who are homicidal, suicidal, and/or gravely disabled.

2. Community Mental Health Centers

Five Mental Health Centers for children and adolescents, four levels of respite care, including an intrinsic crisis respite program, faculty preservation services, a step-down transaction program, and assertive community outreach program for adolescents.

3. The Crisis Intervention Service (C.I.S.)

The CIS clinic serves as the emergency clinic for children and adolescents from Region I (Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes).

4. The LSU Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division Psychotherapy Clinic

This clinic serves as the site where various forms of psychotherapy are taught. The clinic especially focuses on individual psychodynamically influenced psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and family therapy

5. The Children's Hospital of New Orleans

Children's Hospital serves as the regional pediatric center for this area. It is a 175 bed facility that is JCAHO approved and affiliated with LSU Medical School. Child and Adolescent psychiatry consultation-liaison is run by the LSU child and adolescent psychiatry faculty and child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

6. Infant Consultation Teams/Harris Infant Mental Health Training Program

LSU has a multidisciplinary team of professionals (child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, developmental psychology, and clinical child psychology) who focus on the evaluation and care of infants and toddlers (ages 0-3 years) and their caregivers. The team works in Orleans Parish where they assess, treat, and follow-up infants and toddlers in foster care (under the auspices of the Office of Community Services). This team, along with Joy Osofsky's numerous grants including the Violence Intervention Project (V.I.P.), and the LSU Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry division, was awarded a five year, one million dollar grant to teach infant mental health in 1996 (The Harris Grant's principle investor is Howard Osofsky, MD, PhD). This grant has received follow-up funding so that it can continue until 2005.

Other:

1. Community Consultation/Clinics

In both the first and second years of training, residents are assigned to several community sites

2. Bridge City Juvenile Facility