Education and learning
In our education programs, we are committed to training the next generation of mental health professionals through interdisciplinary collaboration. Training at all levels – undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education – emphasizes the value of contributions by a wide range of disciplines, from psychology to clinical nutrition to social work to speech and language pathology, to name only a few.
Teaching and learning how to treat childhood mental illness is a vocation at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). We honour a long tradition of compassionate care, while building new knowledge to help children and families rescue and retain their mental health.
The modern practice of mental health care is based on interdisciplinary collaboration. Through our education programs, we emphasize the value of contributions by the many disciplines involved in research and clinical practice, including child and youth counsellors, clinical nutrition, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social work, speech and language pathology, and molecular genetics. We believe we learn from and teach each other across disciplines and across the boundaries of student and teacher.
Undergraduates, postgraduates, and fellowship trainees experience work in an advanced care paediatric health sciences centre – from innovative therapies for anxiety disorders to crisis management to integrated medical and psychiatric approaches for complex child and adolescent problems. Education with the Department of Psychiatry at SickKids comprises the largest training component of the Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
This section contains information about the learning and education opportunities in the Department of Psychiatry.
- Anxiety Disorders Program
- Attention Deficit and Related Disorders Program (ADHD Program)
- Eating Disorders Program
- Medical Psychiatry Program
- Psychiatry Assessment and Treatment Unit (PATU)
- Psychiatry Emergency and Crisis Service
Also see Research.