How to Manage: Child mental health in general paediatrics
Provided by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
About the course
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