PSYCHIATRY

Specialized physicians from the Psychiatry Department at the American Hospital offer high quality counseling, diagnosis, and treatment for mental and behavioral conditions that can be observed in all age groups. After each patient is evaluated, personalized treatment plans are formulated and custom advice is issued in the cases that do not require treatment. Our experienced specialists know that psychiatric treatment should be tailored, as a result, they avoid employing limiting templates.

Our department’s specialists provide psychiatric consultation services for patients who have conditions related to other internal and surgical departments; this is sometimes the case with inpatients or outpatients who have been examined at the Emergency Medicine department. Sometimes patients suffer from an added physical condition in combination with the psychiatric illness proving the valid point that mental health problems can be connected to diseases that fall into specialty areas. Generally speaking, we offer support that invariably has a positive influence on each patient’s quality of life.

The Psychiatry Team at the American Hospital consists of specialists that have long-term knowledge and experience in relevant specialty fields. The view that treatments should not be confined to biological methods and psychotherapy is applied for selected cases but also guides our general treatment strategy. We take further steps to provide psychotherapy approaches for the cases that are not feasibly treated with biological methods, in particular medicines issued for post-traumatic stress disorders, dissociative disorders, psychosomatic conditions, personality disorders, and other complex fields.

Admission of children and adolescents are especially taken into account by the age-specific problems and we cooperate with their families. We also emphasize the importance on the valuable dialogue with the school’s counseling services departments. Attaching importance to and acting in line with high ethical values, our team evaluates the components of the best possible approach in a balanced and realistic manner to ensure the most beneficial result for the patient; requests and opinions of the admitted patient are certainly considered during the treatment process. Briefly, our department takes care of the principle “first, to do no harm” and offers services by adopting the view that mutual trust is the primary principle in psychiatric care and all associated departments.