Psychiatry across the lifespan

Psychiatry across the lifespan

Level ~ Graduate Diploma
Availability ~ Semester 2

Mental health, mental illness, needs, communities and capabilities continue to change through our lifespan. In this Semester you will enhance your knowledge of these changes from infancy to very old age: and their implication for psychiatric practice. Individual topics are those described in the Psychiatric Medicine Units Developmental Perspectives in Context 1 and 2.

Exam Preparation sessions will focus on understanding and preparing for the RANZCP Essay Exams.


Learning Outcomes

Available in MyHETI.


Teaching Schedule
Topic 1 Developmental theories
Topic 2 Introduction to Working with Children and Adolescents
Topic 3 Perinatal psychiatry: Focus on the Infant
Topic 4 Preschool to Early Primary School Child psychiatry in the
Topic 5 Consultation-Liaison setting
Topic 6 Adolescent and Youth Psychiatry
Topic 7Perinatal Psychiatry & Systemic Interventions
Topic 8MEQ Workshop
Week 9Undertaking and Reporting
Week 10Critical Appraisal of Practice
Week 11Working with/ for Older People
Week 12Can I look forward to older age?
Week 13Depression and Suicide in Older People
Week 14Is my memory going?
Week 15Capacity and Consent
Week 16Psychiatric Emergencies and Behaviour Changes
Week 17“He’s not how he used to be…”: Personality change and Psychosis in
Older People
Week 18Anxiety in later life
Week 19 RANZCP - "Program of Assessment"
Week 20How might the principles of Child & Older Adult services inform
practice across the lifespan