Applied Clinical Issues – Child & Adolescent Mental Health

To provide students with an understanding and critical awareness of the primary issues involved in clinical interventions within child and adolescent mental health settings.

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
?Understand the role of clinical psychology in a child and adolescent mental health settings;
?Discuss the emergence of current perspectives in clinical settings;
?Explain the contribution of empirical research to our understanding of psychological dysfunction;
?Describe the commonly presented disorders in a child and adolescent mental health setting;
?Identify appropriate psychological interventions and models of practice for various disorders;
?Evaluate a variety of clinical interventions and describe how they may be tailored to particular patient needs;
?Critically evaluate intervention outcomes.