The IWK Bipolar Specific Care Clinic is a multidisciplinary specialty team that services youth with severe and persistent mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder. The team provides consultative services and collaborative care to clinicians at the IWK community mental health and addictions clinics as well as to clinicians across the province for those youth who show signs of increasing severity of illness related to severe mood disorders. The clinic provides opportunity for clinical, education and research opportunities for students and residents interested in child and adolescent bipolar illness.
Accessing this Clinic, Program or Service
Central Referral will help determine whether the Specific Care Clinics offer the right support for you or your family member or friend. Most referrals to the Specific Care Clinics come from Community Mental Health and Addictions (CMHA) following a Choice appointment.
As the IWK is a tertiary care facility, child and adolescent psychiatrists from the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or PEI) can request a consult appointment for their patients with any of the Specific Care Clinics through Central Referral. Physicians and clinicians from the Maritimes can also request to speak to a member of the Specific Care Clinic if they wish to consult on a case.