Information About the Department
The following services are provided by UAB Department of Psychiatry and UAB Hospital Mental Health Services:
The Department of Psychiatry is a department within the UAB School of Medicine and is composed of faculty psychiatrist, psychologist, and basic scientists. In addition to the teaching and research mission, the department has a comprehensive clinical faculty working in programs designed for treating children, adults and those patients over 65 years of age. The department’s clinical mission is to serve the citizens of Alabama training physicians and psychologists for the future.
The Center for Psychiatric Medicine, UAB’s core psychiatric center, houses inpatient, outpatient, and programs for partial hospitalization. The center has 78 inpatient psychiatric beds, 12 addiction recovery beds and department of psychiatry outpatient faculty offices. Services are provided by skilled nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, and faculty physicians from the department of Psychiatry. UAB hospital is Joint Commission accredited and recognized nationally for many service specialties.
• The Community Psychiatry Program provides outpatient psychiatric evaluation and treatment for the seriously mentally ill for patients in its catchment area, and a day treatment program. The Community Psychiatry program is also a state mental health center.
• The Addiction Recovery Program for adults offers intensive outpatient, partial hospital, inpatient detoxification, recovery stabilization and family services. The program follows the 12 step model of treatment for addiction.
• The Professionals' Resource Program is a specialized treatment and liaison service for healthcare and other professionals with addictive disease. The program provides services for a wide variety of professionals including attorneys, physicians, nurses, dentists and pharmacists.
• The Child/Adolescent Psychiatry program offers psychiatric services for children and adolescents. The program also has a school for children adolescents in need of a specialized school due to their psychiatric condition.
• The Adult Psychiatry program offers diagnosis and treatment for adults suffering from depression, anxiety, as well as many other mental illnesses.
• The Medical/Surgical Psychiatry Program provides clinical consultative services to patients with medical as well as psychiatric disorders. These services include inpatient consultation, evaluation for organ transplantation, bariatric surgical evaluation among others
• Geriatric Psychiatry offers comprehensive psychiatric diagnosis and treatment for patients 65 and older. In addition to psychiatric treatment, the geriatric service also provides treatment for those suffering from disorders associated with aging.
Other facts:
• Largest group of Board Certified Child and Adolescent psychiatrists in the state.
• ACGME fully accredited training in Adult and Child /Adolescent Psychiatry.
• The UAB Division of Geriatric Psychiatry is the only comprehensive center in Alabama offering clinical care, education and training, and research in the psychiatric disorders of the elderly.
• The UAB Community Psychiatry Program developed one of the first co-occurring disorder programs for persons with serious mental illness and substance abuse disorders.
• Unique among university-based adult psychiatric treatment centers, two of the Adult Division’s psychiatrists are also trained as psychoanalysts and are highly qualified to work with those patients whose treatment requires in-depth psychotherapy. Each of these clinicians has over 30 years of experience in conducting intensive psychotherapy with patients who present with a broad spectrum of emotional problems.
• Clinical rotations of residents from Psychiatry and Internal Medicine.
• The Grace Clinic is a CPP-OB Department research collaboration to assess pre and post-partum depression and other serious mental disorders in women of child-barring age.
• The Addiction Recovery Program has two trauma specialists and a grief therapist.
• Masters Degree candidates for Counseling and Social Work Interns.
• Numerous nationally known NIH funded researchers.
• UAB Department of Psychiatry faculty listed among “Best Doctors in America.”