Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Catalog description

Goals: The student will be exposed to information about child development and child and adolescent psychopathology. Attempts will be made to offer both verbal and written sources of learning in these areas. In addition to the didactic exposure, the student will have the opportunity to observe and then perform interviews with families, children and adolescents. These interviews may then be followed up with subsequent visits by the student in order to get some mini-exposure to continued evaluation. Along with learning evaluations and interview techniques, the student will have the opportunity to observe adolescent group therapy process at Brentwood Hospital. The student will be under direct faculty supervision. Objectives: 1. Students will participate in patients’ interviews on initial (new patient) and follow up clinic visits under faculty and resident supervision. 2. Students will improve medical and psychiatric history skills, physical exam, and mental status exam skills 3. Students will learn to adapt the history, physical exam, and mental status exam to what is needed for different patients. 4. General medical and psychiatric knowledge and disease-specific information for common and major medical and psychiatric problems will be gained through conferences, seminars, and self-directed learning modalities. 5. Students will learn about aspects of preventative medical and psychiatric care 6. Students will learn documentation requirements.