About the Department of Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at University Hospital Oldenburg
The Department of Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Oldenburg offers the full range of services in these medical fields. The specialists of the department work with children aged 4 to 18 years. The treatment is based on a multidisciplinary approach and required attention to the individual needs of children, adolescents and their parents. The department is equipped with 32 beds for inpatient treatment. The department is headed by Prof. Dr. med. Yulia Golub.
The first stage of treatment is comprehensive diagnostics, which covers general medical examination, neurological examinations, a number of psychopathological anamnesis, EEG, ECG, laboratory studies, etc. Then follows the psychological diagnosis, the purpose of which is to identify the intellectual abilities of the child, evaluate his/her development. To obtain a complete clinical picture, projective methods of personality research, behavioral diagnosis, personality test and other studies are also used.
Each child will have an individual treatment plan. A large number of professionals works with a child that includes: doctors, psychologists, educators, specially trained nursing staff, therapists of various profiles, etc. Involving parents, as well as school and kindergarten workers in therapeutic processes, ensures rapid reintegration of the child or adolescent back into the psychosocial environment.
The department specializes in the treatment of the following clinical cases in children and adolescents:
- Emotional disorders accompanied by mental and physical disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Depression
- Somatoform and dissociative disorders
- Mental disorders after physical, sexual and psychological abuse
- Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder
- Hyperkinetic disorders with all the consequences
- Violations of social behavior
- Serious developmental disorders (autism)
- Eating disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Psychosomatic diseases
- Psychosis
- Mental disorders with epileptic seizures
- Adaptive disorders and stress disorders
- Combined developmental disorders
- And many other cases
The therapeutic options of the department include:
- Music therapy
- Medical pedagogy
- Psychomotorics
- Ergotherapy
- Art therapy
- Hippotherapy (therapeutic horse riding)
- Motor therapy (aikido, swimming, etc.)
- Sociotherapy
- Environmental therapy
- Adequate care and training
- Other treatment methods
Curriculum vitae
Prof. Dr. med. Yulia Golub is the Head Physician of the Department of Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Oldenburg. She studied medicine at the Samara State Medical University (Russia) and neurobiology at the University of Tuebingen. In 2009, Prof. Julia Golub received her doctorate from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, after which she worked as a resident in various clinics and completed training for board certification in pediatric and adolescent psychiatry. In 2017, she took up the position of managing senior physician in the Department of Pediatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden. This was followed by a position at the University Hospital Oldenburg. In 2019, Dr. Julia Golub completed her habilitation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Photo of the doctor: (c) Klinikum Oldenburg AöR