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The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (DCAP) at the University of Florida offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient clinical care by Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and Child Psychologists for a range of conditions. Our programs are organized to reflect the expertise of our faculty. Each program offers a team of professionals collaborating to meet the comprehensive evaluation and treatment needs of children and their families.
We draw upon expertise from other professions, including: Child Psychology, Pediatric Neurology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Addictions Medicine, and other administrative case management veterans from foster care, juvenile justice, legislative interfacing, and education.
Services may include parent education and support, medication management, multiple modalities of psychotherapy, school advocacy, and psychological testing and assessment. Faculty are also available for second opinions or one-time consultations to families and clinicians.
DCAP treats the following conditions:
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, is a large multi-faceted program centered in a major academic medical center. The Department of Psychiatry focuses on the three central missions of clinical care, research and education to govern its department of psychiatry divisions. Nationally recognized for ground-breaking research projects in Autism, Brain Stimulation (ECT, TMS, DBS) , Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Department of Psychiatry provides state-of-the-art research, inpatient and outpatient evaluation & treatment locations in Gainesville, Central Florida and Indian River County. The Department has over 60 full-time Faculty researchers and treatment experts . The University of Florida College of Medicine is proud to offer evidenced-based treatment programs for Impaired Health Professionals, depression, children and adolescents, eating disorders, obesity, pain, alcoholism, bipolar illness, geriatric psychiatry, drug abuse, Schizophrenia , and other psychiatric and psychological problems. Keep up with the latest community and psychiatry news with our Addiction & Psychiatry Newsletter. Find UF a psychiatrist or psychologist or forensic expert or Faculty of the University of Florida’s College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.