Adolescent Psychiatry in a Day Treatment Program in a Community Setting
Objectives: Experience working with an interdisciplinary team in a community high school setting, helping adolescents with major psychiatric disorders and school problems such as ADHD, depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder as well as school refusal and learning disorders.
Description: The student will work in an interdisciplinary team setting (multimodal treatment), and would be involved in rounds and team meetings, discussion and treatment plan formulations. Opportunity would be given for observation, interviewing and multimodal treatment involving the interdisciplinary team. Experience with a systemic, biopsychosocial treatment model involving the interdisciplinary team, families, community agencies and school. The student will learn more about treatment modalities in an adolescent population including supportive interpersonal therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, group and family therapy, pharmacotherapy and behavioural management. Opportunities exist for work in adolescent substance abuse treatment, as well as research.
SUPERVISOR(S): Dr. R. Milin, K. McCallum (psychological associate)
DURATION: 1-4 weeks |
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