Child and Adolescent Depression Clinic
The Stanford Child and Adolescent Depression Clinic is a teaching clinic that accepts referrals from families and from medical and mental health professionals seeking assessment and treatment for children and adolescents who may be depressed. The clinic is under the direction of Frances Wren MD, a board- certified, faculty child and adolescent psychiatrist with expertise both in psychotherapy and medication treatment for child and adolescent depression. Clinical services are provided by advanced trainees in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology under the supervision of faculty child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists.
Conditions Treated
- Unipolar Depressive Disorders (Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder, Minor or Unspecified Depressive Disorder).
- Adjustment Disorders with depressive features, including prolonged grief.
- Depression occurring in the context of medical illness, injury or chronic pain.
Services Provided
- Children and adolescents who appear to be depressed are scheduled for an initial, comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment planning session (2-3 hours).
- Extended diagnostic evaluation for children and adolescents with more complex conditions that may require further testing and more than one assessment visit.
- Pharmacotherapy consultation to therapists and primary care clinicians who are treating a child or adolescent who might benefit from anti-depressant medication.
- An individualized treatment plan is developed for each child entering treatment which may include some or all of the following:
- Individual psychotherapy for depressed children and adolescents
- Pharmacotherapy for those who may benefit from anti-depressant medication
- Consultation with families to support recovery of depressed children and adolescents in treatment at the clinic
- Consultation with schools to support the recovery and academic success of depressed children and adolescents in treatment at the clinic.
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