Consult Liaison Psychiatry
The Paediatric Consult Liaison team provides psychological and emotional assessment and support to tamariki and rangatahi under the Starship medical and surgical services and their whānau. It is located on level three of Starship Children’s Hospital.
The types of problems they can help with include:
- Adjusting to, and coping with, illness or injury
- Emotional and/or behavioural problems in a child with illness or injury
- Treatment adherence problems e.g. fear of needles, special diets, difficult treatments
- Management of complex pain in children and adolescents
- Feeding difficulties
- Parental and whānau difficulties coping with a child’s illness especially where the illness or treatment is challenging or complex
- Grief and bereavement counselling related to a child’s illness
They offer a range of interventions including:
- Assessments
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
- Child therapy and counselling
- Child behaviour management
- Family work/intervention
- Medication
- Neuropsychological assessments
The team consists of:
- Child Psychiatrists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Neuropsychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Nurse Specialists
This service liaises closely with the child’s Starship medical or surgical team and also with any other involved service e.g. General Practitioner, School, Physiotherapist or Special Education Services.
Referral Expectations
The Starship Paediatric Consult Liaison Psychiatry team only sees children who are currently Inpatients or Outpatients at Starship Children’s Hospital. If you would like a referral, please ask a member of your child’s Starship team to refer your child to our service.