Children's Services

Children's Psychological Medicine supports children with acute and chronic physical health problems.

We run outpatient clinics and support children on the wards to help children and their families with associated psychological needs.

We work closely with all the medical and surgical specialties at the hospitals.

For example, we help children and their families to:

• adjust to physical illness and treatment
  
• manage anxiety and distress associated with their health needs
  
• get the best out of their treatment.

We provide specialist services in:

• pain management
• persistent physical symptoms
  
• autistic spectrum disorders and related complex problems in those aged under five years
  
• problems associated with childhood cancers, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, endocrine conditions and many other physical health conditions.

We provide specialist input for health-related concerns for sleeping, toileting, and feeding where there is a significant impact to the child's development and local services (accessed via your GP) have not been able to resolve the issue.

All team members are trained to assess and manage the range of clinical presentations; however, the specialties listed below are areas some individuals more commonly work in.

In addition to substantive psychiatrists and psychologists, we regularly have locum clinicians, visiting specialists and trainees and assistant psychologists working as part of our team.

We also have a team of over 20 play specialists who work predominantly with inpatients, helping them better manage their conditions and the procedures they are undergoing.

Many children with neurological problems are seen by paediatric neuropsychologists based in the Russell Cairns Unit.

Children treated by the cleft lip and plate or craniofacial services are also seen in the Russell Cairns Unit.

For more information on Children's Services, please see Children's Services:

Staff

• Dr Karen Steinhardt
  Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lead for Children's Psychological Medicine
• Dr Emily Betts
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer
  
• Dr Jacinta Cordwell
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Neonatal and Child Development
• Dr Jenny Cropper
  Principal Clinical Psychologist, Gen Paeds and Diabetes (Wexham Park); Diabetes (MK); General Paeds RAs (JR)
• Dr Emma Dunford
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Neuro Rehab (NOC), Pain Clinic (NOC), General Paeds (JR)
• Dr Anna Elderton
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Cystic Fibrosis, General Paeds
• Dr Mina Fazel
  Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, General Paeds and specialties
• Dr Dimitri Gavriloff
  Clinical Psychologist, Sleep Clinic
  
• Dr Kate Green
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Rheumatology (NOC), Diabetes (JR), General Paeds (JR)
• Dr Helen Griffiths
  Principal Clinical Psychologist, Haematology/Oncology, General Paeds
• Dr Camilla Holden
  Clinical Psychologist, Diabetes, General Paeds (JR and Horton)
• Dr Kathryn Hyde
  Clinical Psychologist, Neonates
• Dr Konrad Jacobs
  Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pain Clinic (NOC), Neurorehab (NOC)
  Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Children's Rehabilitation, including the Oxford Centre for Children and Young People in Pain (JR and NOC)
  
• Dr Judith Kalthoff
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Paeds Critical Care and Helen and Douglas House
• Dr Juliet Kennedy*
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Spinal Surgery Service (NOC), Oncology (Wexham Park)
• Dr Annukka Lehtonen
  Clinical Psychologist, Orthopaedics (NOC), General Paediatrics (Wexham Park)
• Dr Ian McCubbin
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, HIV, Lifespan service (Churchill), Neuromuscular, Visual Impairment
• Dr Joanna Mann
  Clinical Psychologist, General Paediatrics
• Dr Laura Mitchell
  Clinical Psychologist, General Paediatrics, Haematology, Oncology, Haemophilia
• Dr Mary Owen*
  Senior Clinical Psychologist, Diabetes
• Dr Isabel Paz
  Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, General Paeds and all specialties
• Ms Charlotte Peters
  Assistant Psychologist
  
• Dr Rebecca Robinson
  Principal Clinical Psychologist, Child Development, Cochlear Implant and General Paediatrics
• Ms Angela Shanly
  Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist, General Paeds
• Ms Rabeeah Sohail
  Honorary Assistant Psychologist (AE)
• Ms Erica Watson
  Play Specialist lead
  
• Dr Guinevere Webster
  Clinical Psychologist, Medical Needs InReach Project

(*Extended leave)

Find us and contact us

We are based principally in the Children's Hospital, on the John Radcliffe Hospital site.

• Children's Psychological Medicine
  LG1, Children's Hospital, Oxford
  Headley Way
  Headington
  Oxford OX3 9DU
• Tel: 01865 234187

Code of conduct

Clinicians in the department work according to the standards laid down by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

CR186 Good Psychiatry Practice: Code of Ethics (pdf) - www.rcpsych.ac.uk

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