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Child, Adolescent, Older Adult, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

0–2 Hours
English
Advanced Level
CPD Accredited Certificate

$45.00

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Mental Health & Behavioural Care • Advanced Level

Child, Adolescent, Older Adult, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Child, Adolescent, Older Adult, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry addresses how age, development, physical illness, cognition, family systems, and care environments shape psychiatric assessment and treatment.

Child, adolescent, older adult, and consultation-liaison psychiatry addresses how age, development, physical illness, cognition, family systems, and care environments shape psychiatric assessment and treatment. Learners work through developmental history, safeguarding, neurodevelopmental conditions, perinatal care, later-life mental illness, delirium, capacity, medically unexplained symptoms, and psychiatric consultation in hospitals. The course emphasizes adaptation of communication, careful collateral history, and collaboration with families and medical teams.

What You Will Learn In This Course

Explain the central concepts of lifespan-sensitive and consultation-liaison psychiatry using accurate psychiatric language.
Conduct or support structured, respectful, and culturally responsive assessment within professional scope.
Integrate symptoms, mental-state findings, physical health, development, social context, strengths, and patient preferences into a working formulation.
Recognize urgent safety concerns, uncertainty, diagnostic bias, treatment risks, and situations requiring senior or multidisciplinary escalation.
Communicate clinical reasoning clearly in handover, documentation, case discussion, psychoeducation, and shared planning.
Apply reflection, case analysis, and knowledge checks to improve safe, recovery-oriented practice.

Course Modules

10 modules
3

Module 3

Module 3: Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Conditions

6 topics

Who Is This Course For?

  • Psychiatrists, residents, paediatric and geriatric clinicians, liaison teams, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals supporting patients across the lifespan

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