Topics
Development
Brain development
Developmental psychopathology including development of attention regulation, affective regulation, anxiety, immune mediation, thought, language, attachment, aggression and other mental abilities
Developmental theories
Gender issues
Groups With Special Needs
Identity development
Molecular genetics
Moral development
Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders
Neurophysiological,psychoneuroimmunological and psychoneuroendocrinological aspects of development
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics
Temperament
Assessment
Advances in neuroimaging
Advances in psychometric assessment methods
Assessment of the family
Assessment through interviewing and observational methods
Diagnostic classification systems: DC:0-3R, DSM-IV, ICD-10
Etiological factors, risk factors, preventive and protective factors in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
Neurodevelopmental and psychoeducational assessment
Psychiatric evaluation of perceptually impaired children
Psychiatric evaluation of abused children
Psychodynamic evaluation of children and adolescents
Clinical conditions
Acute stress reactions and post-traumatic stress disorder
Adjustment disorders
Anxiety disorders
Attachment disorders
Attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Borderline disorders and other self pathologies
Child maltreatment
Chronic illness and the child
Dissociative disorders
Dying and death
Eating and feeding disorders
Elimination disorders
Identity problems, gender identity disorders
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Juvenile delinquency
Language and learning disorders
Loss and bereavement
Mood disorders
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Others
Parent child relationship disorders
Psychosomatic disorders
Regulation disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
School avoidance\ school phobia
Substance abuse
Suicide
Sleep disorders
Tic disorders
Treatment:
Day treatment
Evidence based treatment
Family and Marriage Counseling
Family therapy
Group therapies and psychodrama
Hospitalization
Individual therapies (psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and others)
Planned environment therapy
Play therapy
Psychological Counseling and Guidance
Psychopharmacology
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Counseling
Residential treatment
School Counseling
Social skills training
Special education
Therapeutic Community
Treatment of emergencies
Treatment planning
Public Health and Social Aspects of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Children in war
Children in labor
Children’s rights
Clinical psychiatric nursing
Clinical social work
Controversial issues: seclusion and restraint, electro-convulsive therapy
Cross-cultural and transcultural research
Effects of health delivery systems
Effects of media and inernet
Effects of video/computer games
Epidemiology
Ethical considerations in assessment, treatment and research of children and families
Gay and lesbian families and parenting
Globalization and child mental health
Government politics on mental health
Homeless children
Immigration
Impact of early/unwilling marriage and parenthood
Institutional care, foster care and adoption
Juvenile detention and correction
Legal aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry
Mental health policies
Multi-ethnicity and multi-cultural societies
School mental health
Sterility and egg donation parents
Religious belief systems and the child
Training
Developing international standards for training in child and adolescent psychiatry
Undergraduate training in child and adolescent psychiatry
Subspecializations in the field
Training in psychiatric social work
Training in psychiatric nursing
Undergraduate training in child and adolescent psychiatry |
