PIT5006 Child and adolescent psychiatry

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Appraise the history of child and adolescent psychiatry, including the key determinants of personal, developmental, familial, and social factors in influencing and contributing to mental health difficulties in young people within key theoretical frameworks, and resultant models of care across the developmental span between infancy to young adulthood.

2. 2

   Implement competent psychiatric assessment, interviewing and diagnostic investigation of infants, children and adolescents, attending to family, school, out-of-home care and systems issues with cultural sensitivity, professionalism and insight into complex ethical dimensions that exist in child and adolescent psychiatry.

3. 3

   Integrate complex understanding of the biological, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of children and adolescents presenting with psychological distress to enrich and inform the formulation of their psychiatric disorders.

4. 4

   Examine and apply developmentally appropriate and psychotherapeutic principles of management of the patient and their family.

5. 5

   Distinguish different mental health interventions and the role of the multidisciplinary treatment team in child and adolescent psychiatry.

6. 6

   Evaluate the evidence-base for management strategies or interventions with children, adolescents and their families presenting with mental health difficulties.