The Developmental Psychiatry Course comprises a skills component, with placements at Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, and a theory component, held at Mindful.
Skills Component
The skills component runs from 9am-Noon on Wednesdays, starting mid-year (exact date TBD) and takes place at pre-assigned Victorian CAMHS/CYMHS sites.Small groups of trainees are placed at a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
A Consultant gives an initial demonstration of the assessment process, and trainees observe through a one-way screen. In turn, each trainee undertakes a new case assessment supervised by a Consultant and conferenced with other members of the group. For each session, the Consultant discusses the content, technique and process with the group. By the end of the year each participant will have conducted at least one assessment and observed four further assessments. When participants conduct assessments, they are required to fulfil liaison, record keeping, and other relevant tasks concerned with the appropriate professional management of the case.
Theory Component
The theory component runs from 1:30-3:30pm on Wednesdays during the Victorian school term, starting 3 February and is delivered via live Zoom videoconference.
The seminar presentations focus on normal development through the life cycle, systematically focusing on infancy, the toddler, the pre-school child, the school-age child, adolescence, and parenting. The series of presentations includes attention to disturbances of development and clinical problems relevant to each phase being studied.