ACE: Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

School of Medicine

Students will provide inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents aged 4 to 18. Students can expect to see a varied range of ages, diagnoses, and presenting complaints including depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders and autism. Students will join a multidisciplinary team working with nursing, social work, and mental health specialists to treat acute mental illness. The primary goals of treatment include comprehensive diagnosis, pharmacologic management, development of treatment plans, and implementation of behaviour management protocols. Students will also learn therapeutic family work focused on safe transition to outpatient care.