People are referred to the Outpatient Clinic by the “guichet d’accès” of their CLSC or by other services at the Douglas Institute.

Outpatient clinics for children 18 and undre include the Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) Diagnostic Clinic, the Depressive Disorders Clinic and the Child Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic.

The Severe Disruptive Disorders Program offers a range of superspecialized services for children aged 6 to 12 years with behaviour problems with or without an attention deficit disorder / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Depression in children: We don’t talk about major depression in babies, but rather about a tendency to be sad.

The Intensive Case Management (ICM) Program is a means of organizing the work to provide integrated psychiatric treatment and recovery services to people with severe mental illnesses.

CARC's goal is to increase knowledge of mechanisms, diagnosis, and psychiatric treatment of mental disorders through clinical research.

The MGSS conducts extensive work investigating clinical and behavioral factors increasing risk for suicidal behaviors.

Depression in young people is considered a disorder when feelings of sadness, emptiness, etc. last for many days and significantly impair life.

Through research at PEPP, patients benefit from new knowledge, resulting in state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods for the early stages of psychosis

It is estimated that up to 20 percent of Canadian children and youth may be affected by mental illness.