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BMRI5052: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
2024 unit information
This unit of study is designed for psychiatrists in training, doctors working in paediatrics and general practice and other health professionals working with children and adolescents with mental health and with their families and carers. The unit will draw on the clinical and research experience of child and adolescent psychiatrists, including those with subspecialty interest (addiction, forensic, consultation-liaison and perinatal included) from a group of professionals who work with children and young people (including paediatricians, psychologists, nurse practitioners and those working in health advocacy). This unit provides an overview of child development and mental health from conception through adolescence, looking at key genetic and environmental factors that contribute to clinical disorder. Major psychopathologies such as mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis and neurodevelopmental disorders will be examined. Particular attention will be given to presentation across contexts, from community care to specialist inpatient and consultation settings. A key objective of this unit is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge required to assess and formulate child, adolescent and youth psychopathology. Students will be provided with an opportunity to develop skills in the assessment of young people and their families and carers and will learn about management options for common psychiatric presentations including psychological and pharmacological treatments as well as approaches to working with families, carers and wider systems including multidisciplinary teams, education and welfare sectors.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Brain and Mind Science
| Code | BMRI5052 |
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| Academic unit | Brain and Mind Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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BMRI5011 or BMRI5010 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Clinical experience in psychiatry or general practice or paediatrics or equivalent is essential |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the importance of child and adolescent mental health, child development, and the evolution of child and adolescent psychiatry.
- LO2. develop an approach to a comprehensive psychiatric assessment of a child or young person as informed by child development and by key principles for engaging and working with children and adolescents.
- LO3. demonstrate the application of systemic and attachment theories to better inform biopsychosocial formulation.
- LO4. utilize diagnostic systems in child and adolescent psychiatry to develop and support diagnostic prioritisation and differential diagnoses.
- LO5. discuss specific issues of assessment, diagnosis and management for child and adolescent psychiatric presentations, including for neurodevelopmental disorders and those disorders subsumed by the constructs of internalising and externalising disorders.
- LO6. develop working knowledge of specific issues of assessment, diagnosis and management across a range of contexts, including from parent and early childhood (perinatal), forensic, consultation and addiction subspecialties, whilst adhering to the relevant legislative framework.
- LO7. synthesise the evidence base for psychopharmacology and psychological interventions to construct a comprehensive management plan in children and young people.
- LO8. understand the impact of trauma, including colonisation on indigenous people today.
- LO9. develop an awareness of reflective practice as a means of integrating knowledge, skill and clinical experience to produce and effectively communicate synthesised information.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Modes of attendance (MoA)
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