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Child and adolescent psychiatry is a specialty in medicine that concerns with mental problems
in children and adolescents.

The child and adolescent psychiatrist provides psychiatric services for various mental disorders in children and adolescents and finds solutions to resolve the conflicts between children and parents.

Helping children's adjustment to school, family and society, and making the best out of their potential are also the important goals of pediatric psychiatry.

In addition, we aim to help children overcome physical problems and disabilities and to provide guidance to their parents and family. The related diseases and symptoms include the followings:

  • Attention deficit and learning disability
  • Autism and other developmental disorders such as mental retardation
  • Tic disorders or Tourette syndrome
  • Speech and other cognitive developmental delays
  • School and peer group adjustment problems
  • Addiction to computer, games, and the Internet
  • Conduct behaviors
  • Problems in socialization
  • Vulnerability to stress
  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
  • Depression and bipolar disorders
  • Anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
  • Academic and adaptational problems resulting from chronic pediatric illness
  • Anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders

Medical Specialities

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Fetal Treatment

One of the best services of the Center is a collaborative system of relevant departments of pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, pediatric surgery, pediatric thoracic & cardiovascular surgery, pediatric urology, pediatric neurology, and pediatric plastic surgery. It aims to check and diagnose fetal deformities by an ultrasound screening at the same time providing consultation for parents on the postnatal treatment and its outcomes and facilitates the treatment of a baby immediately after birth.

Doctors

  • Kim, Hyo-won
    Kim, Hyo-won
    Departments

    Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Stress Psychotherapy Center, Children's Cancer Center

    Specialty

    Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Stress Psychotherapy

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    AHN SOOJIN
    Departments

    Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Stress Psychotherapy Center

    Specialty

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    KIM JU YEON
    Departments

    Pediatric Psychiatry, Stress Psychotherapy Center

    Specialty

  • LEE TAEYEOP
    LEE TAEYEOP
    Departments

    Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Stress Psychotherapy Center

    Specialty