Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Diagnostic Evaluation and Treatment

Learn to identify, classify and diagnose specific pediatric psychiatric conditions and understand treatment interventions for children and adolescents with mental illness. Cover the classification of pediatric psychiatric disorders and gain knowledge of the etiology of common conditions. Learn how mental disorders manifest at different developmental stages, and examine helpful screening and diagnostic tools for your practice. Learn the components of empirically supported treatments for different diagnoses as well as how to select the most appropriate empirically support treatment. At the end of the course, you should be able to define diagnosis in terms of specific disorders and their developmental variations, select appropriate interventions and evaluate outcomes. The intended audience for this workshop includes nonmedical licensed clinicians, psychiatric nurses and pediatricians.