C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, part of University of Michigan Health, is an academic medical center offering comprehensive pediatric behavioral and mental health services, as well as research studies. The inpatient psychiatric Nyman Family Unit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Wellness cares for patients dealing with issues like suicide, self-harm behaviors, anxiety disorders, psychosis, eating disorders and other behavioral issues. In addition to general, integrated and subspecialty psychiatric services, a special outpatient program focuses on pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety. The hospital also offers a comprehensive eating disorder program, with both partial hospitalization and outpatient options. A 24/7 child psychiatry consultation service is available to all inpatient medical units and emergency rooms, including psychiatric emergency services with direct care and crisis phone lines. The hospital is one of the few in the U.S. to offer pediatric electroconvulsive therapy for children with treatment-resistant depression and mood disorders, as well as complex issues including pediatric catatonia. Faculty research focuses on the interplay between physical development, behavior and health, and explores eating and feeding behavior, obesity, sleep disorders, integrative behavioral health, chronic illness treatment regimens, the transition from pediatric to adult care, medical decision-making, and quality of life.
