Child Psychiatry

The Purple Centre provides guidance to children. The facilities provided are:

• Psychiatric interview with child and parents
• Play interview and therapy
• Physical and neurological examination
• Developmental review
• Psychological testing including tests for intelligence, cognitive functions, personality testing
• Neuropsychological testing including tests of perception, visual motor and reasoning abilities, expressive and receptive
• Language abilities testing
• Achievement-psychoeducational testing
• Family evaluation and therapy
• Parent counseling
• Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Pharmacotherapy
• Consultation liaison with allied branches