Head of the Clinic: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nerminka Aljukić

Head nurse: Emina Hujdur, graduated nurse

Secretary: Emir Fajić

Contact:

e-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba
Address: Rate Dugonjića bb
Telephone.: 00 387 35 267 111
Fax.: 00387 35 268 011

The Clinic for Psychiatry is consisted of six departments with 70 hospital beds, an outpatient clinic for adults, outpatient pediatric clinic and outpatient adolescent clinic, two specialist consultation and 14 cabinets with 66 employees: 15 doctors specialists (7 subspecialists), 4 doctors on residency, 7 graduated nurses/ technicians, 2 nurses/ technicians with higher nursing school and 28nurses/ technicians, 1 graduated in psychology, 1 pedagogue psychologist, 2 defectologists, 2 non- medical workers, and 3 assistants to health professionals.

HEALTH CARE SERVICES

• The Clinic provides specialized health care services delivered by highly trained staff to patients with mental and behavioral disorders of all ages.

• Scientific and research work, education, organization of professional meeting

• Secondary mental health care services for patients of all ages

• The modern treatment of psychiatric disorders

• Biological, psychopharmacology, electrotherapy treatments

• Psychotherapy: group analysis, family systems therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (KBT), EMDR ( Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Gestalt psychotherapy, ABA therapy (Applied Behavior Analysis), Neuro- linguistic Programming (NLP)

• Sociotherapy: group therapy, therapeutic communities, occupational therapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy, alcohol addiction support groups

• Mental health promotion and advocacy

• Teaching clinic affiliated to the Medical faculty

ORGANIZING STRUCTURE

Departments

• Department for acute conditions and semi- intensive care

• Department for Clinical Psychiatry

• Department for Social Psychiatry

• Department for traumatic stress disorders

• Department for neurotic disorders and psychosomatics

• Department for pediatric and adolescent psychiatry

OUTPATIENT CLINIC/ DAY HOSPITAL

Cabinets

• Cabinet for electroencephalography and evoked potentials

• Cabinet for elctrostimulation therapy

• Catamnestic monitoring of psychotic disorders

• Cabinet for psychiatric genentics

• Catamnestic monitoring of affective disorders

• Cabinet for pediatric psychiatry

• Cabinet for the prevention of drug addiction

• Cabinet for the prevention of alcohol addiction

• Cabinet for systematic desensitization and spiritual therapy

• Cabinet for psychiatric epidemiology

• Cabinet for psychogeriatrics

• Cabinet for clinical psychology and psychometrics

• Cabinet for liaison psychiatry

• Cabinet for the improvement of mental health in young people

An Outpatient Clinics

• Admission

• Specialist consultation

DEPARTMENTS

DEPARTMENT FOR ACUTE CONDITIONS AND SEMI- INTENSIVE CARE

Chief of the Department: Ass. Prof. Elvir Bećirović, M.D.

Technician in charge: Nevres Džekić, graduated technician

• Diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute psychiatry disorders

• Diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic phychiatric disorders with signs of deterioration

• Diagnosis and treatment of associated somatic disorders and complications

• Contemporary psychopharmacotherapy

• Monitoring of psychopharmacological levels in blood plasma

• Monitoring, prevention and treatment of psychopharmaceutical therapy side effects

• Indication for EST therapy and its implementation

• Community based sociotherapy

• Psychoeducation

DEPARTMENT FOR CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Vedrana Marinković

Nurse in charge: Husein Bjeljinac, graduated techniciam

• Integrative clinical psychiatric diagnostics according to the multiaxial and operational model and differential diagnostic considerations

• Psychological assessment, analysis of personality structure and the premorbid personality

• Integration of clinical psychiatric, laboratory, neuroimaging and other consultation findings; Liaison psychiatric analysis

• Evaluation of therapeutic protocols, flexible, patient- centered pharmacotherapy treatment following current therapeutic algorithms; Indications for extended treatment- group analysis, EST, EMDR

• Systemic family therapy; Integration of social factors of importance for the current condition

• Assessment of current general, psychosocial and professional functionality

• Community based sociotherapy

• Psychoeducation of patients and family members

DEPARTMENT FOR SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY

Chief of the department: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nerminka Aljukić

Technician in charge: Hajrudin Halilović, graduated technician

• Psychiatric interview with patients their parents/ guardians, spouses and their children

• Assessment of mental status in mental disorders that occur in adulthood and providing diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations

• Psychiatric assessment of early symptoms and signs of disorders from the spectrum of organic mental disorders, disorders caused by addiction, the spectrum of psychotic, affective, neuroticism, stress, war and post- war trauma disorders, somatoform, psychosomatic and dissociative disorders

• Advice to families coping with psychiatric disorders

• Assessment of psychological problems based on inadequate religious morality and spirituality, group and individual psychotherapy with spiritual support

• Family psychotherapy and partner psychotherapy

• Psychiatric examination, diagnosis and treatment of adults with disorders resulting from stress and adjustment disorders, including treatment with bilateral desensitization (EMDR)

• Therapeutic community during hospitalization at the Clinic for Psychiatry

• Group psychotherapy of war veterans and their spouses

• Group analysis of adults

DEPARTMENT FOR TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS

Chief of the department: Prof. Dr. Rusmir Softić

Nurse in charge: Nurveta Kešetović, graduated nurse

• Diagnostic and therapeutic assessment of hospitalized and outpatients

• Psychoeducation and sociotherapy for hospitalized and outpatients

• Individual and group psychotherapy for patients

• Group analysis and group psychotherapy

• EMDR

• Supervision

DEPARTMENT OF NEUROTIC DISORDERS AND PSYCHOSOMATICS

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Olica Marinković-Šušić

Nurse in charge:

• Psychiatric interview with patients and their family members;
• Assessment of the psychological, somatic and social status of hospitalized patients through diagnostic procedures for further pharmacotherapeutic, psychotherapeutic and sociotherapeutic interventions to provide adequate treatment and achieve a higher degree of recovery upon discharge;
• Psychoeducation of hospitalized and outpatient patients and their families;
• Therapeutic communities during hospitalization;
• Regular meetings of the Team of professionals participating in the treatment process of hospitalized patients;
• Cooperation with Mental Health Centers and Social Work Centers in planning and implementing complex discharges of hospitalized patients;
• Systematic family counseling and psychotherapy;
• Supervision

   

DEPARTMENT FOR PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY– the department is in the process of renovation and reconstruction

Chief of the department: Ass. Prof. Nermina Kravić, M.D.

Technician in charge: Dejan Kovačević, graduated technician

• Diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation of pediatric and adolescent outpatients with affective symptoms, anxiety and stress- related symptoms, somatoform disorders, personality and behavioral disorders. There is possibility of parental accompaniment and presence to the child during staying at the department.

• Treatment and support for the patients discharged from the hospital for mental health stabilization and the social reintegration

• Psychiatric- psychologic diagnosis, psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, sociotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation of children and adolescents with the mental health needs with the patient staying within the family and familiar social environment.

• Integrative and multidisciplinary approach, which includes psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy, psychoeducation, work-occupational therapy, group reconstructive therapy, sociotherapy and recreational therapy

• Individual and group work with children, adolescents and their families

DAY HOSPITAL

Head of Department: Dr. Amra Delić, MSc.

Nurse in charge: Edina Saletović, graduated nurse

• Diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of partially, half-day hospitalized patients from the indication area of ​​affective, anxiety, stress- related, somatoform disorders, personality disorders, organically conditioned mental disorders and psychotic disorders in remission;

• Treatment of hospitalized patients after resignation, with the aim of stabilizing the condition, resocialization and reintegration; Intensive psychiatric-psychological diagnostics,

• Intensive psychiatric-psychological diagnostics, psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, sociotherapy and psychosocial rehabilitation with the patient’s stay in the existing family and social environment;

• Integrative and multidisciplinary approach, which includes psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, art therapy, psychoeducation, occupational therapy, group reconstructive treatment, sociotherapy and recreational therapy;

• Individual and group work with patients

CABINETS

Cabinet for pediatric and adolescent psychiatry

• The psychiatric interview with parent/ guardians and children/ adolescents

• Assessment of psychological status in psychological disorders that occur in childhood and adolescence (behavioral and emotional disorders, ADHD, developmental disorders, mental retardation, a tic disorders, nocturnal urination, eating disorders, early signs of psychosis etc.)

• Therapeutic and diagnostic recommendations

• Psychiatric assessment of early symptoms and signs of autism spectrum disorders

• Advice to parents, medication treatment of children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorder

• Applied Behaviour Analysis special education for children with autism spectrum disorder

• Diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with disorders resulting from stress reaction and adjustment disorders, including treatment with bilateral desensitization (EMDR) by trained therapists

• Group psychotherapy of children and adolescents under the guidance of group psychoanalysts

Cabinet for the prevention of drug addiction

• Psychiatric interview with the patient, conversation with person accompanying the patient

• Laboratory diagnostics, psychological assessment- finding, social anamnesis

• EEG (electroencephalography) and CT scan of the brain if necessary

• Consilium evaluation of the patient

• Cooperation with the Clinic for Infectious Diseases regarding hepatitis C positive patients

• Prescriptions for substitution therapy (Buprenorphine/naloxone) Suboxone
• Titration of the drug dose for 3-5 days
• Monitoring of established abstinence through control follow ups and urine drug tests
• Individual psychotherapy treatment for a patient- addict, group psychotherapy for addicts, and psychotherapy for a family member (parent, spouse or someone else who is partner in treatment)
• Evaluation or monitoring of treatment success for a three- month and six- month period
• Treatment of comorbid psychiatric diseases

Cabinet for the prevention of alcohol addiction

• Psychiatric interview with the patient, conversation with person accompanying the patient

• Writing a therapeutic contract and introduction to initial abstinence

• Laboratory diagnostics, assessment of condition, social anamnesis

• Planning other options of diagnostic tests

• Analysis of performed diagnostic tests, planning of further therapeutic work with the patient and family, and planning of consultative specialist examinations with aim to follow up the patient’s health condition

• Individual psychotherapy treatment and work with family members

• Inclusion of the patient to the Club of treated alcoholics

• Evaluation of therapeutic success/failure of patients and family members

• Treatment of comorbid diseases and monitoring of alcohol addicts work engagement

Cabinet for psychogeriatrics

• Diagnosing mental disorders in older adults

• Recommendations for additional diagnostic

• Psychopharmacotherapy

• Follow- up, monitoring, evaluation

• Education of family members

Cabinet for clinical psychology and psychometrics

• Clinical interview with appropriate observation

• Clinical assessment of intellectual abilities for children and adults

• Assessment of personality structure; the use of a personality inventory with results interpretation; the use of projective and semi- projective techniques with results interpretation

• Neuropsychological assessment: interview; assessment of mental deterioration and impairment: assessment of psychomotor development in children

• Psychological counseling (individual and family)

• Providing psychological analysis, testing and professional opinion with recommendation

• Forensic- psychological expertise

OUTPATIENT CLINICS

Admission clinic

The Admission Clinic performs examinations and triage of urgently referred patients, emergency and scheduled admissions of patients with indications for hospitalization, initial treatment and observation of patients. Patients and the services provided are properly recorded. When admitted to hospital treatment, a referral form from the admission clinic is filled out, a medical history, temperature-therapeutic sheet and nursing documentation are opened, sanitary treatment is performed, and then the patient is referred to the appropriate department.

Specialist-consultation clinic

This clinic performs examinations of patients referred for a specialist examination (first and follow-up) and/or a consultation examination, at a previously agreed time. The patient is required to bring a referral for a specialist or consultation examination, as well as previous medical documentation. Specialist-consultation examinations at other clinics (emergency and routine) are performed in accordance with the valid procedure for consultation examinations and upon receipt of an invitation for the same.