CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY PROGRAM
All of our clinical rotation goals are organized by core competencies and reflect the critical knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are the focus of each specific service. In addition, the program has overarching goals and objectives that guide and shape the clinical programming and resident teaching.
Click here for a PDF file of complete program goals and objectives, including those for:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Day Hospital
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit
Young Adult and Adolescent Affective Disorders Service
Consultation Liaison Service
On-Call
Speciality Clinics
Resident Continuity Clinic
Cummunity Psychiatry
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Forensics
Mountain Manor
Preschool Rotation
General
1. Provide an educational program that offers a thorough understanding of the development, assessment, treatment, and prevention of psychopathology as it appears from infancy through adulthood.
2. Provide an introduction to this knowledge base in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for medical students and general psychiatry residents.
3. Provide an interdisciplinary setting for the training of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists to take a leadership role in working with other mental health professionals in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders in children and understand the role of an effective consultant.
4. Integrate findings in developmental neurobiology and neuroscience to develop an understanding of fundamental processes that may be involved in the etiology and treatment of childhood psychiatric disturbances and developmental disorders.
5. Provide treatment to children and families on a non-discriminatory basis, always considering the welfare and perspective of the patient, family, community, and utilizing evidence based approaches to clinical problem solving.
Educational
1. Skill in diagnostic interviewing, formulation, treatment planning, and implementation of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological management.
2. Familiarity with the theories of child development pertaining to children of all social and cultural backgrounds.
3. Skill in consultation with primary care, non-psychiatrist mental health providers, schools, community agencies, and other programs serving children and adolescents.
4. Skill in administration and teaching
5. Knowledge of the principles of research to encourage a scientific approach to clinical problems and skill in critical reading of the literature as it pertains to child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology
6. Familiarity with the function and organization of health, education and welfare institutions to promote normal development.
7. Understanding of legal and ethical issues in the practice of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
