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Psychiatry conference: child mental health
3 September 2009
Psychiatry conference: child and adolescent mental health
Alcohol and drugs, behaviour disorders, infant mental health, attachment, trauma, early intervention and prevention, eating disorders, anxiety and many other topics relating to the mental health of children and adolescents will be discussed at the upcoming Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Conference on 7 to 9 September 2009.
Sessions at the conference will cover a broad range of child and adolescent psychiatry mental health issues. Key speakers and experts in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry include:
• Dr Peter
McGeorge, Chair of the New Zealand Mental Health Commission
and a child, adolescent and general psychiatrist, Monday 7
September 9.15am
• Professor Richie Poulton, Director
of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development
Research Unit which conducts the Dunedin Longitudinal Study,
one of the most detailed studies of human health and
development ever undertaken, Long-term benefits of
preventing exposure to alcohol and drugs among teenagers,
Monday 7 September 11.30am and Psychiatric status and
physical health: A life course perspective, Monday 7
September 2pm
• Professor Ian Goodyer, Professor of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of
Cambridge and expert in the origins, treatments and outcomes
of emotional and behavioural disorders in adolescents, The
treatment and management of clinical depressions in the
adolescent years, Monday 7 September 10.30am and The
biological basis of emotion, Tuesday 8 September
9am
• Professor Philip Hazel, Director of Rivendell
Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Services in
Concord, Sydney with expertise in the areas of youth
suicide, mood disorders, autism and children in out-of-home
care, Management of disruptive behaviour disorders with
comorbid mood disorder, Monday 7 September 11.30am and I
look ahead: Equipping trainees for future practice in child
and adolescent psychiatry, Wednesday 9 September 1pm
• Dr Sally Merry, child and adolescent psychiatrist
and Director of Research at the Werry Centre for Child and
Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Auckland with
expertise in adolescent depression, Depression,
deconstruction and Pandora’s box, Tuesday 8 September
10am
• Professor Peter Gluckman, Foundation Director of
the Liggins Institute for Medical Research of the University
of Auckland, Program Director for Growth, Development and
Metabolism at the Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences
and expert in fetal and postnatal growth and developmental
neuroscience, Evolutionary perspective on adolescence,
Wednesday 9 September 10am
• Bridget Greaney, a youth
consumer advisor for the Capital and Coast District Health
Board, Outside in, Wednesday 9 September
9.30am
• Ngaire Kerse, GP academic, Associate Professor
at the University of Auckland and carer of a daughter with
severe anorexia nervosa, Surviving Anorexia – the
Carer’s lot, Wednesday 9 September 9am
Details of the conference program to be held in Queenstown are available at: www.child2009.co.nz
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