St. Petersburg State Healthcare Institution Central Clinical Hospital "Children's Psychiatry named after Mnukhin"
The former Imperial Nicholas Hospital is once again accepting young patients. The Child Psychiatry Center opened in historical buildings on Chapygina Street. On May 6, 2011, the completely restored buildings were shown to the governor. During treatment, children will be able to attend school, which is also located on the territory of the center. Construction of two new buildings is currently underway. After completion of work, the hospital will be able to accommodate about 300 patients. Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St. Petersburg: “After the construction of these buildings is completed, we will bring child psychiatry here from Pesochnaya, and thus it will be a single comprehensive center. In the first quarter of 2012, the modernization of child psychiatry will be fully completed. This will be the best center in Russia.” About 40 patients are already being treated at the clinic. In the future, doctors plan to use day care hospitals more often so as not to tear children away from their families. According to officials, almost 12 thousand people in St. Petersburg need such help. ex Imperial Nicholas Hospital accepting young patients again. Opened in historical buildings on Chapygina Street Center for Child Psychiatry. On May 6, 2011, the completely restored buildings were shown to the governor.
During treatment, children will be able to attend school, which is also located on the territory of the center. Construction of two new buildings is currently underway. After completion of the work, the hospital will be able to accommodate approximately 300 patients.
Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St. Petersburg:
“Upon completion of the construction of these buildings, we will bring child psychiatry here from Pesochnaya, and thus it will be a single comprehensive center. In the first quarter of 2012, the modernization of child psychiatry will be fully completed. This will be the best center in Russia".
About 40 patients are already being treated at the clinic. In the future, doctors plan to use day care hospitals more often so as not to tear children away from their families. According to officials, almost 12 thousand children in St. Petersburg need such help. In addition to treating severe mental illnesses, sometimes you just need advice from a specialist.
Dmitry Shigashov, chief physician of the rehabilitation treatment center “Child Psychiatry” named after S.S. Mukhina:
“There are quite a large number of children who need counseling. In difficult situations - when there is maladaptation at school, when a child encounters cruelty".
The hospital has fundamentally abandoned bars. The windows have durable double-glazed windows. The center will soon have a unique speech pathology department and a 24-hour city trust center.
Elena, if I remember everything correctly, you are a teacher by profession. Surely you are familiar with this: from a few words from a student, it becomes clear whether he prepared for the subject today - or not.
So for me, as a person who at one time participated in a program for the social rehabilitation of preschool children with hyperactivity syndrome, delayed speech development and general mental retardation, it is clear that doctors who refer a child with these diagnoses for a psychiatric examination, to put it mildly, simply want to shift take responsibility. To put it bluntly, they are just laymen.
Suspicion of a diagnosis of “psychosis,” which can only be given to an adult, since it is a disorder of an already FORMED psyche, more than tells me about the competence of the specialists who conducted the examination.
As for the competence of the center’s specialists, I am simply familiar with the current state of child psychiatry in Russia. Psychiatrists, if they received a child on a referral from neurologists (namely, neurologists - i.e., in their purest form, doctors who have no idea about psychology - see at a psychoneurological dispensary), would rather change the diagnosis to a more suitable one - rather than refuse to accept the child. These are the costs of operating the medical system as a whole. Since they will bear varying degrees of responsibility for refusing treatment as directed - and for changing the diagnosis. Roughly speaking, in the first case you will have to fill out more different pieces of paper
And now imagine the situation in pictures: there have been cases when a child received sensorimotor allia from a neurologist simply because he was embarrassed at a doctor’s appointment. And should he definitely be referred to a psychiatrist after that? Who, in ninety cases out of a hundred, nods his head in response to the neurologist - and will readily inject the child with all sorts of rubbish to the point of “don’t play around”?
Now, regarding the differences between a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. These are, of course, completely different specialists. And I know about this not because I “found” this information somewhere on the Internet, but because understanding the differences between a psychologist, psychotherapist and psychiatrist is my profession
A psychiatrist is a doctor. This is a person who treats ONLY with medication; and which, as a rule, deals only with mental disorders caused by morphological characteristics.
A psychotherapist is a person who has, first of all, psychological training and specializes in cases that do not have morphological disorders of the central nervous system. He also has general knowledge of psychiatry - but not in order to apply it in practice - but in order to be able to correctly make a diagnosis: or exclude gross mental disorders and consider the case with which he was approached to be a case, not beyond the scope of psychotherapeutic competence - or redirect the patient to a psychiatrist if there is a psychiatric diagnosis. But he himself is NOT a psychiatrist. He can also carry out drug therapy, but only as an auxiliary and not the main treatment.
In a word, a psychotherapist is a combined specialist, but he is primarily a psychologist, not a psychiatrist.
In practice, they - a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist - solve completely different problems.
In general, Elena, I’m writing all this not so much for the commentators, but for my mother, the author of the blog. If she finds it necessary to contact me in personal correspondence and ask questions, including regarding my competence, I will certainly answer. But of course, I won’t waste time explaining basic things to everyone who is interested, doubtful and curious - if this interest does not go beyond the bounds of idleness. I composed this comment, rather, also for Olesya.
It’s very funny and strange to correspond on professional topics with a person who found something online on a subject of interest, and for the first time was puzzled by the differences between a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist.
