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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