a Editor in Chief, International Journal of Person Centered Medicine; Secretary General, International College of Personcentered Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA. b President, International College of Person-centered Medicine; Former President, World Medical Association, London, United Kingdom. c Board Director, International College of P...

a Editor in Chief, International Journal of Person Centered Medicine; Secretary General, International College of Person Centered Medicine; Former President, World Psychiatric Association; Vice-President, World Federation for Mental Health; Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA. b Board Director, International College of Person Centered Medicine; Chair,...

Japan has been facing a serious shortfall of child and adolescent psychiatric workforce relative to increasing service needs. Likely because of a combination of limited workforce supply and limited trust or perception of effectiveness, mental health services are under-utilized by the educational and child welfare systems. Child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) has not been a formally established...

As reported in previous issues of Mental Health, arrangements are being made to hold, under the auspices of the National Association for Mental Health and in co-operation with the International Committee for Mental Hygiene, an International Congress on Mental Health in London in August, 1948. The dates originally fixed were August 12th to 21st, but the Committees responsible for the Child Psych...

The School of Medicine, TCD (Trinity College Dublin) has developed the undergraduate degree in Medicine in accordance with the Medical Council and the World Federation of Medical Education guidelines. The course is 5 years. At TCD, clinical and theoretical aspects of psychiatry for 4th-year medical students are delivered during a two-month attachment. Four days of the two months are allocated e...

OBJECTIVE A new Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Medical Education (CAPME) Task Force, sponsored by the Association for Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP), has created an inter-organizational partnership between child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) educators and medical student educators in psychiatry. This paper outlines the task force design and strategic plan to...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper is to review the evolution of the concept of countertransference, its clinical utility and unique features in the child and adolescent psychiatry setting. METHODS This article employs a selective literature review of papers relevant to countertransference in general and in child and adolescent psychiatry. RESULTS Reviewed papers indicate that countertran...