The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

Professional Development and Training - Psychology

Thursday 28th & Friday 29th July 2011 The Psychology Service is holding it's annual seminar series over two days. Topics are: Working with children and adolescents following traumatic events and Understanding learning difficulties - what is useful and what is probably not. Please see attached brochure for details (300 kb)

The Psychology Service offers a range of professional development and training activities for staff. We provide learning opportunities to assist clinicians to increase their competencies in providing professional care, and support attendance at local and international conferences and workshops, which provide up to date information on advances in clinical research and practice.

• Doctorate of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, University of Melbourne
• Annual seminars and workshop programs for professional and lay public.

Presentations by visiting scholars and practitioners are often open to the public.
Lectures and seminars and film/video presentations to professional colleagues and tertiary students.

Doctorate of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
University of Melbourne

The Doctor of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology program is designed to prepare graduates for work in settings that deal with problems of children, adolescents and their families. The training program has been developed through partnerships between the Psychology Department staff of the University of Melbourne and staff of the Psychology Department at Melbourne's major paediatric service provider, the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH). The staff of the program are senior clincians with a breadth and depth of clinical and research experience in the child and adolescent areas that is unique in Australia. RCH staff contribute core teaching at advanced levels, and provide placement opportunities covering experience in a range of agencies and units within the hospital and in community teams attached to the RCH. There are exciting opportunities for doctoral research in the child and adolescent area in mental health and medical psychological domains through collaborative programs with staff of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, ORYGEN Youth Health and the Early Psychosis Intervention Centre.

The program aims to train graduates with the knowledge and skills required for professional practice in agencies specialising in adjustment difficulties across the whole developmental period - infancy to young adulthood. Graduates will be able to provide assessment, therapy, and management for a range of commonly presenting disorders and understand the intrinsic and extrinsic influences on the development of adjustment difficulties. They will be expected to generate research and to be skilled in accessing and applying current clincal research findings to enhance and evaluate their practice.

Objectives

The objective of this specialisation is to provide graduates with specialist expertise in those areas of clinical psychology that pertain particularly to child and family adjustment and maladjustment. Graduates of the program should have a thorough knowledge of the major disorders of childhood and adolescence, methods of assessment of cognitive, emotional and family factors, and familiarity with a range of treatment approaches appropriate for the particular problems and the developmental stage of child clients. They should acquire experience in all facets of work in this specialty area, including inpatient, outpatient and community based practice. They should also be expected to generate and apply research knowledge in ongoing enhancement and evaluation of their professional work.

Course Convenor: Assoc. Professor Elisabeth Northam, Dept. of Psychology, Royal Children's Hospital

Further Information

Application form and further information regarding this course is available from:

School of Behavioural Science
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3052
Phone: (03) 9344 5998