Upon completion of the third postgraduate year, residents will have developed the skills necessary to evaluate psychiatric aspects of medical care, drug interaction problems, and interpersonal issues. Additionally, they will have the skills to provide both short- and long-term psychotherapy to patients with medical and surgical problems. Proficiency is developed in the diagnosis and treatment of children, adolescents, and their families.

The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers a fully accredited two-year Child Psychiatry Residency Education Program.

Cognizant of the fact that children's problems do not develop in a vacuum, the department has created a program with a strong family and community orientation. The program provides training in child and adolescent development, psychopathology, and a broad range of therapies – the full complement of experiences necessary for the resident to assume a role in private practice, community mental health, and/or academic medicine.

Primary Training Sites
The Division's faculty operates five training sites.

• Child Guidance Center (CGC) of Bexar County family-oriented outpatient facility for children and adolescents up to age 18.
• Southwest Mental Health Center Medical Center Campus, a 40-bed acute care children and adolescent psychiatric hospital.
• CHCS Dual Diagnosis Clinic a clinic that addresses the needs of patients who have the dual diagnoses of mental illness disorders as well as mental retardation.
• Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
• UT Behavioral Clinic, an outpatient clinic within the Department of Psychiatry

Additional Affiliations
Active working arrangements are maintained with the majority of programs, social service agencies and other institutions serving the children of Bexar County.

• The Departments of Pediatrics and Family Practice at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  
• Area schools
• Juvenile courts and juvenile detention
• Day care programs
• The Department of Family and Protective Services Division of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (which operates programs for children suffering from child abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect)

Rotations

• Southwest Mental Health Center
• Child Guidance Center
• Christus Santa Rosa Hospital (child and adolescent psychiatry consultation/liaison) & outpatient clinics
• UT Behavioral Clinic
• CHCS Dual Diagnosis Clinic (Mental Health/Mental Retardation)
• Project Headstart
• Juvenile Detention
• Each resident receives four hours of individual supervision/week
• Some time allowed for elective work
• CAP Seminars

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