The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital specializes in the diagnosis and the treatment of disorders of emotion, cognition and/or behavior affecting children from infancy to age 21.

With our telephone consultation service, primary care providers seeking advice in the management of acute and chronic pediatric behavioral health disorders have direct access to speak with a Washington University pediatric psychiatrist by calling Children's Direct at 800.678.HELP (4357).

Ginger Nicol, MD discusses ways the psychiatrists from the Washington University School of Medicine Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, combined with the support services of our Center provides patients and families with the expertise and resources for comprehensive evaluation and treatment.