The Department of Psychiatry at Modern Hospital, is committed to providing comprehensive, co-ordinated and compassionate psychiatric care to children, adolescents and adults. The focus is on providing psychiatric, psychological and behavioral health services for all age groups in a friendly and caring atmosphere. The care is customised to the patient's needs using various modalities of treatment, which are usually on an outpatient basis.
The care for children includes evaluation and psycho-educational testing for learning disabilities which includes IQ test, personality assessment, ADHD assessment and self-inventory scales. Children are evaluated for autism spectrum diseases and treated appropriately with a multipronged approach that includes counseling, behavioural therapy and medication.
Treatment and Procedures
- Family counseling services
- Pediatric psychiatric care
- Marriage counseling service
- Individual, group, couples and family therapy
- Evaluation and treatment for substance abuse, depression and anxiety
- Management of autism, aspergers syndrome and conduct disorders
- Counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and patient at risk for suicide
- Specialised services for children and adolescents with behavioural problems
- Diagnosis, treatment and cognitive therapy for mental ailments in children
- Parent and child behavior management and child coping skill therapy
- Evaluation and management of mental illnesses of the elderly
- Diagnosis and treatment of dementia sleep disorders, Alzheimer's and late-onset schizophrenia
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Program
- Cognitive behavioural treatment program
