PSY - 793 Child Psychiatry

Students will work with the Rush Therapeutic Day School, the medication clinics, a residential treatment center for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed students, and other outpatient services for children and adolescents. The student will attend seminars in child development, psychopathology, psychopharmacology, and therapeutic modalities. The student will participate in multidisciplinary staffings, case conferences, departmental grand rounds, and the journal club. Optional experience in school consultation at a therapeutic school for autistic children, and Consult Liaison is available. Students will be supervised by faculty members and child psychiatry fellows. Elective