CoMUI E-Learning: All courses

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Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Course created by Dr Abdurahman at beta testing of elearning

Provide students with theoretical and practical skills needed to:

1. Perform mental health assessments of infants, children and adolescents

2. Carry out structured or semi-structured forms of mental health interviewing of infants, children and adolescents

3. Perform psychological and neuropsychological assessments of infants, children and adolescents

4. Carry out mental health formulations and integration using the bio-psycho-social model

The overall aims of the module are to provide students with the basic theoretical and practical skills needed to:

1. Recognise specific symptoms and presentations of common disorders and syndromes in CAMH

2. Understand the basic management options for common disorders and syndromes in CAMH

The overall aims of the module are to provide students with basic theoretical and practical skills needed to:

1. Understand normal infant, child and adolescent development

2. Understand the psychological theory of development from birth to adolescence

3. Describe factors influencing child development

4. Describe basic developmental assessment of infants and children

In two main topics, namely -

this course provides knowledge on service development as well as the requisite skills to establish

common child and adolescent mental health services. Concept such as task-shifting/sharing and WHO Mental Health GAP would be discussed.

Course Coordinators:

Professor Olayinka Omigbodun

Dr. Kehinde Lawal