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Medicine Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
MPM2002
Developmental psychiatry (semester 2)
Professor R Adler and Professor B Tonge
Synopsis This subject provides candidates with the opportunity to view
the evolution of human behaviour through the lifecycle from a developmental
perspective. This implies an appreciation of developmental issues such as
continuities and discontinuities between childhood and adulthood in both 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. Seminars will focus on bio-psychosocial influences
on development from infancy, through childhood, adolescence to adulthood.
Emphasis will be placed on the appreciation of interaction between innate
biological determinants with environmental provisions (parental, social,
cultural) and the developmental lines of an individual's development from
biological and early parent-infant relationships. Clinical illustrations will
highlight the influence of disability and chronic illness on individual
development, both directly and through altered family relationships.
Assessment Essay (3000-5000 words)
Recommended texts
- Quay H C and Werry J S (eds) Psychopathological disorders of
childhood 3rd edn, Wiley, 1986
- Rutter M (ed.) Developmental psychiatry American Psychiatric Press,
1987
- Rutter M and Hersov L (eds) Child and adolescent psychiatry: Modern
approaches 2nd edn, Blackwell, 1985
- Rutter M and others (eds) Assessment and diagnosis in child
psychopathology Guilford Press, 1988
- Tonge B J and others (eds) Handbook of studies on child psychiatry
Elsevier, 1990
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