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At Children's Hospital Boston, there is tremendous focus on patient and family care, both physical and emotional. Because hospital stays can be a stressful time for patients and families, psychiatric services are available to help sooth emotions and alleviate the stress that patients and families may never have comprehended experienced before.
Lourival Baptista, M.D., Director of the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Service at Children's Hospital Boston, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist available tohelp families cope when their child is in the hospital. Rachel Tunick, PhD, a staff child psychologist, is available to work with children and their families in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. In addition,
David R. DeMaso, MD, Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Children's Hospital Boston, is on our Cardiology Team working closely with Drs. Baptisa and Tunick to understand the factors that facilitate resiliency and coping in families facing pediatric heart disease.
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