Postgraduate - UnitMPM5002 - Child and adolescent psychiatry

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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8 points, SCA Band 3, 0.1666667 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	School of Psychological Sciences
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Sandra Radovini

Synopsis

A developmental perspective on the evolution of human behaviour through the lifecycle. Developmental issues such as continuities and discontinuities between childhood and adulthood in health and psychopathology; the extent to which normality merges with pathology; facilitating and inhibiting factors influencing transitions between developmental phases; age-appropriate, accelerated and delayed development; the effect of individual differences on developmental processes; and the clinical applications of these principles to psychiatric conditions in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

describe key developmental life stages through childhood and adolescence;
to describe key developmental psychological, social and biological factors involved in normal and abnormal development through childhood and adolescence;
to 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;
to describe key continuities and discontinuities between adult and child and adolescent psychiatric practice;
to outline and discuss the developmental context within which the bio-psycho-social approach is used for the assessment and treatment of child and adolescent psychiatry disorders;
to describe the influences of chronic illness, impairment, disability and handicap on development at an individual, interpersonal, family and social level.