Training in child and adolescent psychiatry in Europe

Forensic child and Adolescent Psychiatry and mental health in Europe

Editorial The medical and educational interests of young people who find themselves in the police and justice systems are the main aims of the European Association for Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology and other involved professions, EFCAP-EU, which was officially founded in 1997. Two years earlier the first youth forensic symposium was held at the ESCAP Congress in Utrecht, ...

Child and adolescent psychiatry: the need for training and development.

In the last few decades, it has been continuously stressed that the significance that mental disorders have for patients and society should be acknowledged. This is due to both the elevated frequency of such disorders and the social and economic burden they represent.1,2 Generalised acceptance of the fact that there are elevated pre-adult rates of these pathologies has been especially slow. Chi...

Model curriculum for academic child and adolescent psychiatry training.

OBJECTIVE The United States is facing a severe shortage of academic child and adolescent psychiatrists. This article reviews a model integrated pathway to improve recruitment. METHODS The authors review training portals for research in child and adolescent psychiatry. There is a summary of a focus group discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the Integrated Research Pathway in Child...

Functional neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Multidisciplinary audit in child and adolescent psychiatry

Recent guidelines recommend that where appro priate, procedures for the development of audit in medicine and professions allied to medicine can be replaced by comprehensive multidisciplinary audit of services. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1990) suggests that clinical audit, involving the work of other staffin the multidisciplinary team, is preferable to purely medical audit. Given the im...