Windsor Site - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Windsor has accreditation for core and elective rotations in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Dr. Yousha Mirza, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, will coordinate your child psychiatry experience.
Options may include inpatient exposure at Maryvale Adolescent and Family Services which administers acute care Windsor Regional Hospital mental health beds for children and youth in serious crisis. The building is recently built and has specific design features supporting the program. It houses 6 of these beds along with a range of outpatient services. It is one of two centers in the province where acute care beds for youth are purposely placed in a child and youth facility, considered leading practice. Currently, 5 Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists provide coverage for this program.
Outpatient experiences at both Maryvale and Regional Children’s Center (RCC) include a consultation service for community doctors and an adolescent clinic. Multidisciplinary services include interprofessional colleagues. A number of faculty participate in these clinics. There are opportunities for telepsychiatry and shared care.
In addition to interviewing children and seeing community referrals of patients under 18 years with a variety of diagnoses, you will also have a chance to observe neuropsychiatric testing and autism evaluations with Psychologists Dr. Marcia Gragg and learn about other psychological testing with Dr. S. Horlick.
A number of faculty can involve you in therapy for youth in a number of modalities, including cognitive behavioural therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Opportunities exist to review developmental psychology with Dr. S. Ahmad, or work in the local eating disorders program with Dr. A. Steen, all members of UWO faculty.
