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Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds

First- and Second-Year Residents, First- and Second-Year CAP Track Residents Visiting lecturers and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital investigators present innovative and current work three times a month during the academic year. A monthly clinical case conference is presented by a child and adolescent psychiatry resident.

Introductory Summer Course

First-Year Residents and First-Year CAP Track Residents Introduction to child psychiatry including assessment, diagnosis, classification, education and child abuse laws, psychological testing, and principles of pediatric psychopharmacology are presented in lecture form supplemented with both live and videotaped patient interviews.

Development/Psychopathology Course

First-Year Residents and First-Year CAP Track Residents
This course begins with an in depth review of normal development by age and stage with specific lectures on developmental topics such as attachment, language and cognition. This is followed by a psychopathology section in which the participants are exposed to the range of disorders seen during childhood and adolescence with an overview of therapeutic interventions. Faculty experts in the Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry contribute to this course. Clinical vignettes and videotapes complement the lectures.

Continuous Case Conference

First-Year Residents and First-Year CAP Track Residents
The conference begins with an overview of the principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents and then moves into an in depth discussion of one or two resident treatment cases. This class uses a continuous clinical case to develop diagnostic skills, facilitate psychodynamic formulations, and explore therapeutic principles and techniques. In addition, collateral work with the parents and families of identified patients advances psychotherapeutic training.

Family Therapy

First-Year Residents and First-Year CAP Track Residents

This course provides beginning child psychiatry residents with an overview of systems theory and common concepts that cross all forms of family therapy. Residents learn how to perform a systemic family assessment and develop brief family treatment plans.

Developmental Neuroscience Seminar

First-Year Residents and First Year CAP Track Residents
This seminar provides an introduction to translational developmental neuroscience taught by experts in the field from the Sackler Institute of Developmental Psychobiology. Topics reviewed include the adolescent brain and risk for depression, affective neuroscience, and imaging and genetics of autism and ADHD.

Journal Club

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
Bimonthly, residents in rotation present in depth a recently published paper from a leading peer reviewed journal. The resident's presentation is followed by a discussion by a senior faculty member of six to ten other relevant publications from that same journal.

Empirically Supported Therapies

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
This course provides a review of the major studies of psychotherapy for child psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, and CD. The trainees are provided with teaching in the major evidence-based therapy techniques for anxiety and depression, including CBT and IPT. Trainees are taught relaxation training, systematic desensitization, exposure/response prevention, how to conduct an interpersonal inventory, affect regulation, interpersonal problem solving, and current concepts in group and family therapy.

Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
This summer course provides an introduction to statistics and research and facilitates the residents' ability to critically evaluate the literature.

Classics and Clinical Issues

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
Classic papers are read by all participants, but presented by one trainee in rotation. Clinical examples are described, along with the didactic presentations of visiting guest lecturers. Discussions focus on the evolution of concepts in child psychiatry and provide a historical perspective on current concepts.

Reading Seminar/Advanced Case Conference

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
The reading seminar provides an opportunity for residents to review concepts as they have developed historically in the area of development and child psychiatry through the review of the classical and modern literature. Several residents will be assigned articles to read, summarize and present during class to stimulate discussion. The second half of the allotted time is devoted to a continuing case conference geared for the more advanced resident.

Culturally Diverse and Special Populations

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents

This is a series of lectures with invited speakers that address relevant issues affecting urban, culturally diverse, and special populations of children and adolescents. Themes as varied as substance abuse, school consultation, and AIDS are presented. Issues of culture, assessment, and policy incentives are discussed. Specific clinical and research interventions for African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American children are reviewed.

Forensics

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
Reading seminar reviewing forensic psychiatry, child custody, civil litigation, and courtroom testimony as an expert witness. Summer experiences observing courtroom proceedings enrich the educational content.

Adolescent Substance Abuse

Second-Year Residents and Second-Year CAP Track Residents
This course includes a series of lectures on substance abuse and a four-hour block of time divided into observation of group process within a therapeutic community (a family meeting and the adolescent encounter group). Meetings with some of the adolescents who are residents in the program provide additional insight into substance abuse and treatment.