Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

170 hours

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This subject will provide students with the opportunity to view the evolution of human behaviour through the life cycle from a developmental perspective.

• Describe key developmental life stages through childhood and adolescence
• Describe key developmental psychological, social and biological factors involved in normal and abnormal development through childhood and adolescence
• Describe key developmental psychological, social and biological factors involved in the onset, progression, natural history and treatment options in specific common child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
• Analyse key continuities and discontinuities between adult and child and adolescent psychiatric practice
• Apply the bio-psycho-social approach to the assessment and treatment of child and adolescent disorders at different developmental stages
• Critically reflect on the influences of chronic illness, impairment, disability and handicap on development at an individual, interpersonal, family and social level
• Transfer theoretical readings and synthesis of the available evidence base into key ideas, and develop skills in succinct communication (orally and in professional written form) of these ideas to ones peers.

1. Oral presentation as part of a series of related presentations and discussion that totals 10 minutes, during semester (40% of assessment)
2. Written essay on child and adolescent psychiatry 2500 words, due end of semester (60% of assessment)
3. Hurdle requirement: 75% attendance of sessions (for face to face students) OR 75% completion of online modules (for online students)
4. Hurdle requirement: Fieldwork - either: 3 RANZCP workplace based assessments (WBAs) by workplace supervisors (approx. 90min each, or more time depending on competency), OR 3 Workplace Practical Activity Log sheets (WPALs) to be taken away and then checked by the subject coordinator after submission.

• Quay, H C, Werry, J S (eds) (1986) Psychopathological Disorders of Childhood, 3rd edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York
• Rutter, M (ed) Developmental Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Press, Washington DC, 1987
• Rutter, M., Taylor E. (eds) (2002) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Modern Approaches, 4th edition, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford
• Rutter M, Tumma, Lann (eds) (11988) Assessment and Diagnosis in Child Psychopathology, Guildford Press, New York

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.