Adolescent Psychiatry & Pediatric Psychiatry in Pennsylvania, Ligonier

Often, in matters of education and development of the child's,the parents are facing a number of difficulties, such as behavioral problems, conflicts between children, delayed language development, communication difficulties and adapt to kindergarten or school, concentration and self-organization. There are more serious problems associated with diseases such as autism, cerebral palsy (CP), cognitive impairment after neuroinfections, chemotherapy, the effects of trauma.

 The main indications for hospitalization are the presence in the clinical picture pronounced psychotic symptoms, mood disorders, behavior and socialization, developmental delays (in the framework of endogenous diseases, infantile autism, schizophrenia, schizoaffective and bipolar disorders).

The main tasks solved during hospitalization are conducting a comprehensive survey, specification of diagnosis, selection of an effective drug therapy and rehabilitation.

Main directions of scientific activity of the subdivision "Adolescent Psychiatry & Pediatric Psychiatry"

• The study of psychopathology preferred for childhood, psychopathological conditions, poor mental development.

• The study of the genesis of deficit symptoms in schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders (ASD), affective disorders, the effects of child abuse and mental deprivation in childhood.
• The study of clinical picture and course of schizophrenia and schizotypal disorder, manifesting in childhood, structure and dynamics of the formation of the procedural defect on the basis of long-term follow-up observations.
• Multidisciplinary clinical-psychopathological, clinical and biological, diagnostic study of patients with autism spectrum disorders.
• The development of a typology of certain types of autism defect in accordance with the different depths of mental retardation, personality disorders, types dizontogeneza.
  Development of modern methods of diagnosis, pharmacotherapy and correction and prevention of mental disorders in childhood.
• The study of the phenomenological features of psychopathology in early childhood as part of endogenous, exogenous social, exogenous organic disorders that occur in the form of psychosomatic symptoms in groups with a congenital deficiency of the connective tissue, functional and organic cardiopathy, in the framework of eating disorders, phobic disorders - depending on the various facts risk (the role of psychosocial factors mother-child, in particular on the state of mental health of the mother, the readiness for motherhood, etc.).
• The study of eating disorders in the disc drive of pathology in children.
• The study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children with different nosology, diagnosis and habilitation.
• The study of different types of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents.
• The study of the dynamics of variants of cognitive activity in the above described forms of mental pathology.