Description
Education & Professional Development team
This one day course brings together a multi-professional team to deliver an exciting programme. It is a useful practical course covering main areas of paediatric mental health.
Date: 7 December 2018 – 7 December 2018
Time: 8.45am – 4.45pm
Location RCPCH
5-11 Theobalds Road
London
WC1X 8SH
United Kingdom
Spaces available
RCPCH members – Consultants – £190
RCPCH members – Trainees – £150
SAS doctors, allied Healthcare professionals (AHPs) and nurses – £150
Non-RCPCH members – £250
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Learning aims, objectives and outcomes
Understand the prevalence and importance of mental health in the paediatric outpatient setting
Gain a framework for understanding adherence, and be able to select appropriate interventions for particular situations
Understand the factors underlying disruptive behaviour, and the options for intervention
Understand the paediatrician’s role in the management of eating disorders, and know what is important in the initial assessment of ill patients with eating disorders
Understand the importance of attachment behaviours in the assessment of patients in paediatric clinics
Understand that MUS (Medically Unexplained Symptoms) and FII (Fabricated and Induced Illness) are part of a spectrum of perplexing presentations, and that a nuanced and careful approach is the best way of dealing with these complex families
Understand the range of neuro-immunological presentations
Feedback
89% of delegates attending the last course went away confident or very confident in their ability to recognise mental health problems in children.