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School of Medicine
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Course Coordinator
- For questions regarding to the timetable, please contact Saira Khan (s.khan@auckland.ac.nz).
- For questions regarding to the course and exams, please contact Dr. Louise Webster.
Introduction
Welcome to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry!
As child psychiatric disorders are common (around 17% prevalence), under-recognised, and under-treated, we would like to ensure that you leave 4th year with an understanding of how to assess mental health problems in children and adolescents within a family context, a knowledge of common child and adolescent psychiatric illnesses, and how to manage them.
We have a limited time to achieve these aims and unfortunately the child and adolescent services are too under-resourced to provide a worthwhile clinical experience, although we hope this will change in the next few years. We have organised the teaching in child and adolescent psychiatry to optimise the resources we have available but we welcome feedback and suggestions, and are always keen to do better!
Outline of teaching in Child Psychiatry
There are two components of the Child Psychiatry teaching:
- Assessment - These sessions are on Wednesdays.
Dates |
Time |
|---|---|
| Wednesday 30 March | 1:00pm – 4:30pm |
| Wednesday 11 May | 1:00pm – 4:30pm |
| Wednesday 20 July | 1:00pm – 4:30pm |
| Wednesday 31 August | 1:00pm – 4:30pm |
| Wednesday 9 November | 1:00pm – 4:30pm |
| Timetable |
|---|
- Lecture - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Video session - 2:30pm - 4:30pm
2. Overview of Disorders and the management
| Campus Block Teaching | |
|---|---|
| Thursday 15 September | 8:30am - 10:30am |
| Thursday 22 September | 8:30am - 10:30am 11:30am - 1:30pm |
Child Psychiatry will be included in the end of year exam.
Essential reading
In response to student feedback in the past we have organised videos and vignettes to demonstrate different disorders in the campus block teaching. To get the most out this you need to know the disorders beforehand. Please read the following texts which are available as a desk copy in the library.
Management of Mental Disorders WHO
- Vol 1 Chapter 3 – Mood Disorders
- Vol 1 Chapter 4 - Anxiety and Somatoform Disorders
- Vol 2 Chapter 5 - Schizophrenia
- Vol 2 Chapter 8 - Child & Adolescent Disorders
