Service innovations: second opinions in child and adolescent psychiatry

Innovations: child & adolescent psychiatry: use of collaborative problem solving to reduce seclusion and restraint in child and adolescent inpatient units.

The authors describe "collaborative problem solving," a cognitive-behavioral approach for working with aggressive children and adolescents. The model conceptualizes aggressive behavior as the byproduct of lagging cognitive skills in the domains of flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving. The goal is to train staff to assess specific cognitive skills that may be contributing to c...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

Functional neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Multidisciplinary audit in child and adolescent psychiatry

Recent guidelines recommend that where appro priate, procedures for the development of audit in medicine and professions allied to medicine can be replaced by comprehensive multidisciplinary audit of services. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1990) suggests that clinical audit, involving the work of other staffin the multidisciplinary team, is preferable to purely medical audit. Given the im...