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Overview | Staff  Office Location Location: 2E (Connecticut Children's) The Institute of Living 200 Retreat Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106 Telephone: 860.545.8604 After Hours: 860.545.8660 Fax: 860.545.8661 Contact Person Robert A. Sahl, MD, Acting Director E-mail rsahl@ccmckids.org The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides an array of child and adolescent psychiatric services both here at Connecticut Children's Medical Center and at the Institute of Living. On the Connecticut Children's campus, consultations are provided to inpatients and outpatients with special medical needs. Children in crisis are seen in either our ambulatory practice at the Institute of Living or in the emergency department. On the campus of the Institute of Living there are inpatient psychiatric services, partial hospitalization programs, a child guidance clinic and a special education school. Throughout the Hartford Hospital/IOL spectrum of care, children and adolescents are seen with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders including Depression, Developmental Disorders such as Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Asperger's Syndrome, and Somatoform Disorders such as Conversion and Somatization, and Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Illness. The Department will triage referrals to the appropriate clinician based on his/her area of expertise and availability. The main number of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice at the Institute of Living is 860.545.7493. Emergency services are available after business hours at the Institute of Living, Assessment Center at 860.545.7200.