About the Academic Child Psychiatry Unit
What is the Academic Child Psychiatry Unit (ACPU)?
The Academic Child Psychiatry Unit is a clinical research unit operating through the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and is located at The Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville (Melbourne).
The ACPU is able to provide a comprehensive assessment of the following types of difficulties in children and adolescents: oppositional defiant problems, conduct problems, attentional problems, motor drivenness, impulsiveness, anxiety difficulties, depressive difficulties, autistic spectrum disorder problems and early-onset psychotic symptoms.
All the information collected during these assessments will be fed back to young people and their families. With the prior consent of the parent(s) this information, in number form, will be kept in our clinical research electronic record. Ongoing advice about particular medication and/or psychological treatments and the monitoring of these treatments is available.
For further information 'About ACPU' please click on the links below:
Establishment
Vision Statement
Key Elements of Assessment
Key Clinics and Standardised Assessments
Recent Event (2008)
Visit of Professor David Coghill, University of Dundee, Scotland
Clinical symposium: Monday 22 September 10am -12 noon, Ella Latham Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Main Building, RCH.
"How important are the developing brain, home and school for understanding ADHD and key comorbid disorders"
To download a copy of the presentations in PDF format please click on the links below.
"Biological underpinnings of ADHD and the progression over time" - Professor David Coghill
"Biological underpinnings of ADHD and depressive disorders" - Professor Alasdair Vance
Past Events (Symposia)
Please see the section under Training for details of past events.