Integration of child psychiatry training into general psychiatric
residency programs is often unsuccessful. The authors describe an
innovative model of training in child psychiatry that involves the children
of adult inpatients. This model offers several advantages: splitting of
child-adult psychiatric training is avoided, child diagnostic and
evaluative skills tend to be learned rapidly, preventive orientations
develop, and family process is both learned and used. Preliminary
experience with this model on two inpatient services suggests that it is
both didactically effective and economical in child psychiatry staff
hours.Abstract Teaser