Richmond Psychiatry Inpatient Service
Inpatient psychiatry is a cornerstone experience in any training program, where residents learn the fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic skills to work with the most severely disturbed patients in an interdisciplinary setting.
The Richmond Psychiatry Inpatient Service at Children's Hospital Boston is a 16-bed inpatient unit that specializes in caring for children, ages 8 to 18 years, who struggle with depression, psychosis, anxiety, eating disorders and other psychiatric illnesses.
This unit also has unique expertise in treating children with serious co-morbid medical illnesses such as brittle asthma and diabetes, which are often vehicles through which emotional and behavioral problems are expressed.
Using an integrative focal treatment planning model, our residents learn how to identify in an effective, focused manner the problems that brought about a child's admission, and the implementation of targeted treatment approaches that allow a child to return to a less restrictive environment for ongoing care.