Outpatient Services for Children and Adolescents
The clinical programs for children and adolescents across the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provide advanced and cutting-edge clinical care, support research, and serve as academic training sites for child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and creative arts therapists. All clinical programs emphasize the use of innovative treatment approaches that incorporate the clinical, social and cultural characteristics of each patient and family. Treatment is delivered using a multidisciplinary team-based approach with clinicians who emphasize family involvement for both diagnostic and therapeutic services. We treat children from birth through age 17.
The treatment options include:
- cognitive behavioral therapy
- psychodynamic psychotherapy
- dialectical-behavioral therapy
- group therapy
- parent training/support
- child skills training
- parent-infant dyadic therapy
- family therapy
- trauma treatment
- substance use treatment
- medication management
We use the latest research-based treatments. We know that all families have strengths and goals that can help children feel and function better. We believe the best outcomes are possible when families and caregivers are actively involved in their child’s treatment.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinics exist across multiple sites within the Mount Sinai Health System and serve children and adolescents who present with a variety of emotional and behavioral problems.
Child and Family Therapeutic Supports and Services
Child and Family Therapeutic Supports and Services (CFTSS) is a New York State licensed mental health program that provides treatment to children and adolescents in their home and community. CFTSS takes a preventative approach and addresses issues before they require intensive intervention, providing treatment right where the behaviors occur. By working in the family’s environment, practitioners can better understand the full picture and offer practical, real-time guidance and support. Mount Sinai Morningside’s CFTSS program works in conjunction with the Mount Sinai Child Health Home.
Mount Sinai Morningside
212-523-8251
Clinic for Overcoming Anxiety in Adolescents and in Children
The Clinic for Overcoming Anxiety in Adolescents and in Children (COAACH) at Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center serves youth ages 5 to 18. COAACH provides evidence-based treatment (e.g., Cognitive Behavior Therapy) for anxiety and related disorders. At COAACH, your children learn skills to cope with anxiety. At the same time, you will learn to support, encourage, and advocate for your children. We also provide individual and family therapy and medication management.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center
332-243-0318
Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service
The Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES), provides a therapeutic school environment for New York City public high school students and services to address issues interfering with optimal functioning for teens and young adults. We provide a full-time, diploma-granting high school education curriculum through the New York City Department of Education. In conjunction with this curriculum, we provide a full range of targeted and integrated services for mental health and substance use, as well as medication management and milieu therapy. Based on one’s motivation and readiness to make changes in their lives, the most appropriate level of CARES will be recommended, and an individualized treatment program will be designed. Our application form can be downloaded here. For more information, visit our website.
Mount Sinai Morningside
212-523-3083
CARESFrontDesk@mountsinai.org
Consultation and Liaison Services (C-L) for Children and Adolescents
When children have a medical condition as well as a mental health issue our Pediatric Psychiatry C-L services can help. Consultations are provided to all pediatric inpatient services across the Health System, including general pediatric inpatient services, pediatric intensive care units, neonatal intensive care units, pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, and other pediatric subspecialty services. We can consult and treat a variety of issues including:
- Child abuse/neglect/maltreatment
- Chronic pain
- Complex medical and/or neuropsychiatric syndromes
- Emotional adjustment to medical illness
- Failure to follow the medical treatment
- Failure to thrive
- Medical illnesses leading to psychiatric symptoms
Our C-L team works closely with pediatricians, nurses, child life specialists, pediatric nutritionists, and others in the pediatric emergency rooms and as well as the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. We strive to achieve the best possible outcomes for your child and family.
Developmental Disabilities Clinic
The Developmental Disabilities Clinic (DDC) provides medication management for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disability, and treats a full range of emotional or behavioral disturbances. The emphasis is on long-term follow-up and continuous re-assessment of treatment strategies for developmentally disabled and psychiatrically impaired children.
Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
212-659-8559
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program serves adolescents ages 14-17 struggling with depression, impulsivity, self-injurious behavior, and emotion dysregulation. Our comprehensive DBT program teaches teens and their families how to cope with stress and improve family communication. We offer individual therapy and family skills groups for teens and caregivers. Participants can also receive medication management.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center
332-243-0318
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
212-423-2981
Early Childhood Program
The Early Childhood Program is an assessment and treatment program for young children (ages 0-5) and their parents or caregivers who present with developmental delays, exposure to stressful changes or traumatic events, and/or behavioral problems. Children and parents are seen for initial assessments and ongoing treatment via individual or dyadic play sessions with the goal to support healthy attachment between children and caregivers. Evidence-based treatments, including Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), are used to treat young children who have experienced trauma or stress. Parent guidance is also offered to strengthen parents’ and caregivers’ capacity to reflect on and support their child’s growth and development. The Early Childhood Program’s developmental evaluation service offers comprehensive developmental and diagnostic testing to better understand young children’s social, communicative, and cognitive development and to identify Autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders that are impacting their functioning.
The Mount Sinai Hospital
212-241-7175
Family and Teen Recovery Services
At Family and Teen Recovery Services (FTRS, aka “Futures”), we help adolescents ages 12 to 18 and their families. Our outpatient program is part of the Child and Family Institute at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. FTRS expands services beyond traditional mental health care. We offer trauma-informed assessment, prevention, treatment, and recovery services for teens and families affected by substance use.
FTRS helps adolescents and their families address: adolescent alcohol, nicotine, and substance use. We also support safe coping and healing from trauma. At FTRS, we help families learn effective communication skills and behaviors that support the recovery. Through this program, we provide one-on-one, group, and family therapy. We also offer separate groups for teens and caregivers. We can also help with medication management, risk prevention, and recovery services. For more information, call 212-523-3082.
Neuropsychological Assessment Services
At the Mount Sinai Harlem Health Center, we offer comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations for children and teenagers. Our assessments look at neurocognitive abilities such as language functions, sensory-perceptual functions, spatial and motor functions, attention, and higher-order executive functions. We can also offer an in-depth evaluation of a child's psychological status and academic skills.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center
332-243-0318
ADHD Center
1425 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10029
212-659-8752
Parent-Infant Center
The Parent-Infant Center (PIC) is a prevention and treatment program that provides trauma- focused multidisciplinary assessment and psychotherapeutic services for pregnant women, caregivers (adolescents and adults) and their children (ages 0-5). The primary goal of PIC is to facilitate the development of a healthy attachment between caregivers and their young children using evidence-based Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). PIC also administers developmental screenings (Ages and Stages) every 6 months to facilitate referrals to Early Intervention and the Committee on Preschool Special Education and works collaboratively with foster care agencies, schools, social services agencies, and other community-based programs.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center
332-243-0318
Parent Management Training and Parent-Child Interactional Therapy Clinic
Parent Management Training (PMT) is an evidence-based treatment for caregivers of school-age children to provide parents with skills to manage their children’s disruptive behaviors. PMT sessions involve caregivers only to teach positive reinforcement methods as well as how to set appropriate, consistent limits with the goal of improving child behaviors. PMT is an effective treatment for caregivers of children exhibiting behavior problems including aggression, tantrums, difficulty following directions, hyperactivity, and school refusal. PMT is offered to caregivers of school-aged children, and can be provided either in-person or over telehealth.
Parent-Child Interactional Therapy Clinic (PCIT) is an empirically-supported treatment for children displaying disruptive, challenging behaviors, and their families. PCIT aims to build a more positive connection between caregivers and children and improve child behaviors through live-coaching play therapy sessions that teach particular skills to caregivers, including praise and effective consequences, to improve child behaviors. Through PCIT sessions, families can work to establish a more warm and positive relationship, children learn strategies to regulate their emotions and accept limits, and caregivers increase their ability to remain calm and consistent while managing challenging behaviors. In our clinic, we focus on children ages 4-7, and are able to provide PCIT through telehealth platforms.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center
212-523-3082
School-Based Health Clinics
School-Based Health Clinics (SBHC) provide mental health services in three high schools in western Manhattan (Louis D. Brandeis High School, A. Phillip Randolph High School, Martin Luther King, Jr. High School) and three eastside high schools (Julia Richmond, Manhattan Center and Bayard Rustin (Humanities). Operated by the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in collaboration with the New York City Department of Education, the New York State Department of Health, and the Departments of Pediatrics. A full continuum of services is provided, including urgent evaluations, individual, group, and family therapies, focused diagnostic assessment, crisis intervention, psychopharmacologic management, prevention activities, consultation to educational staff, and in-service trainings.
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
212-423-2981
Clinical Research Programs
Internationally regarded for its dedication to medical science, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is home to an array of leading research institutes, centers, and laboratories, all of which work toward rapidly translating advances in basic science into innovative patient care. With a history rich in clinical milestones and an unequaled passion for patient-focused research, the Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have pioneered many significant breakthroughs.
Through specialized programs and services, the clinical research programs within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provide cutting-edge clinical care informed by research also conducted within the centers. The Division is dedicated to transforming world-class scientific research into the finest quality care for children and adolescents. Partnerships between scientists and expert clinicians allow science and service to come together in the search for personalized medical care.
Center of Excellence in ADHD and Related Disorders
At the Center of Excellence in ADHD and Related Disorders, the team of expert clinicians is dedicated to improving clinical care for children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD, and children and adolescents with learning disabilities and related problems. The Division’s clinical program offers psychiatric, neuropsychological and psychoeducational evaluation, behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapy, school consultation, and medication treatment. We interview parents and test the child’s intelligence, executive functioning, and academic performance. We also use a questionnaire filled out by you and your child’s teachers. Then we develop an individualized treatment plan.
Through genetic testing, brain imaging, and clinical trials, the Division is expanding knowledge about the clinical presentation, assessment and neurobiological basis of ADHD and its treatments. State-of-the-art expertise in functional neuroimaging, pharmacogenomic and neuropsychological assessment converge to produce multi-faceted approaches to the study of ADHD and related disorders which transcend the boundaries between basic science and clinical care.
1425 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10029
212-659-8752
Eating and Weight Disorders Program
Young people who have issues with body image and food can come to the Eating and Weight Disorders Program at The Mount Sinai Hospital. We provide both regular and intensive outpatient programs to help children and adolescents with disorders that make them avoid food or severely limit or restrict what they eat, as well as issues with overeating. The clinical team offers full consultations and diagnostic assessments, and every patient receives a customized treatment plan around the type and severity of the disorder, the stage of life and the existence of any accompanying conditions. Beginning with outpatient care when possible and moving upward in treatment intensity only when necessary, customized care enables clinicians to best meet the needs of each patient and achieve maximum success. Treatments provided include CBT, DBT skills training, Maudsley family-based therapy, and group therapy. Additional programs include the LEARN® (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships, Nutrition) Program in weight management, as well as prevention programs. This program also offers treatment for conditions co-occurring with eating disorders, such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and substance abuse.
The research program involves the study of all types of eating disorder pathology. The program specializes in the development and testing of a range of empirically supported treatments for eating and weight disorders including CBT, family-based therapy, and guided self-help. Ongoing treatment studies involve the development and testing of smartphone-assisted CBT and the efficacy of mirror exposure therapy for significant body image disturbance among males and females with binge eating or bulimia nervosa.
53 East 96th Street
New York, NY 10128
212-659-8724
OCD, Tics, and Tourette Disorder Program
The Tics, OCD and Related Disorders Program studies and treats OCD and related conditions, including Tourette disorder, other persistent tic disorders and body-focused repetitive behaviors such as skin picking and hair pulling. The multidisciplinary team is composed of pediatric and adult psychiatrists, psychologists, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and doctoral-candidate externs who specialize in evidence-based evaluation and treatment. The clinical program provides thorough diagnostic evaluations accompanied by sensitive and specific treatments to affected families.
The research program focuses on the onset, neurobiology, genetics, prevention and treatment of OCD, Tourette disorder and related conditions. The overarching goal of our research program is to discover the causes of these disorders and, in doing so, develop more effective and innovative therapies to help families in the future. The program supports ongoing treatment studies in OCD and related disorders, several international collaborations focused on identifying environmental and genetic risk factors for these conditions and investigations that use precision-analytic research methods including computational modeling.
1425 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10029
212-659-8752
Seaver Autism Center
The Assessment Program at the Seaver Autism Center provides gold-standard diagnostic and neuropsychological evaluations, as well as the most up-to-date genetic testing for all patients participating in research studies. The Clinical Program is a comprehensive assessment and treatment program that provides the highest level of patient care informed by the clinical and basic science research conducted at the Seaver Center. All families enrolled through the Assessment and Clinical Programs are offered a genetic evaluation to relate genetic results to other clinical research results. These programs also offer psychiatric evaluations, neurological examinations, diagnostic testing, and cognitive testing.
Using state-of-the-art molecular genetic, neurobiological, and clinical approaches, the Seaver Autism Center continues to make breakthroughs in multiple aspects of autism research. The interdisciplinary research platform of the Seaver Autism Center is supported by dedicated individuals from diverse backgrounds. The main areas of research at the Seaver Autism Center include genetics, autism model systems (rodent, induced pluripotent stem cells, and systems biology), and experimental therapeutics (clinical trials, behavioral interventions, neuroimaging).
1428 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10029
212-241-0961
