Chair: Jeffrey Rowe, M.D.
Tuesday, October 24
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ticket)
Each Clinical Practicum is limited to 30 AACAP/AMPI members.
This Clinical Practicum experience has been developed to help us identify the profound effects of social context on children’s mental health symptoms. In particular, it focuses on the areas most of us tend to treat with medication: mood problems and aggression. The attendees visit two school settings, one designed to match the child’s learning methods with project-based learning tasks and the other where a social change model has been put in place to decrease student violence on campus. Both sites are regular education campuses that have undertaken the radical task of changing the social context. High Tech High has developed a model in which the academic demands, performance expectations, and social interactions between students and the interactions between a student and his/her teacher have been carefully structured in order to improve children’s ability to learn, feel confident, and feel capable. Naranca Elementary School has put a social change model called “Peacebuilders” in place in order for their students to feel safe, act in a peaceful and non-violent manner, and be able to manage conflicts and difficulties between students. Attendees can ask questions of the children, parents, and school staff about the programs, their effects, and their experience of using psychiatric medications before and now. These experiences add to the psychiatrists’ knowledge of how social context interventions can significantly alter their patients’ expressions of illness and improve their functioning.
Sponsored by the AACAP Local Arrangements Committee
Schedule:
8:00 a.m
Meet at Marriott in the Mission Hills room
8:15 a.m.
Introduction
9:00 a.m.
Board bus for trip to High Tech High School (HTH)
9:30 a.m.
Arrive at HTH for a presentation with staff and discussions with students and parents
12:00 p.m
Lunch together and guided discussion of observations and questions
1:30 p.m.
Board bus for trip to Naranca Elementary School
2:00 p.m.
Arrive at school for presentations about Peacebuilders (a violence prevention model) and by school staff and discussions with students and families.
4:00 p.m.
Wrap up, questions, observations of the participants
4:30 p.m.
Board bus for return to Marriott
Tuesday, October 24
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ticket)
Each Clinical Practicum is limited to 30 AACAP/AMPI members.
This Clinical Practicum experience has been developed to help us identify the profound effects of social context on children’s mental health symptoms. In particular, it focuses on the areas most of us tend to treat with medication: mood problems and aggression. The attendees visit two school settings, one designed to match the child’s learning methods with project-based learning tasks and the other where a social change model has been put in place to decrease student violence on campus. Both sites are regular education campuses that have undertaken the radical task of changing the social context. High Tech High has developed a model in which the academic demands, performance expectations, and social interactions between students and the interactions between a student and his/her teacher have been carefully structured in order to improve children’s ability to learn, feel confident, and feel capable. Naranca Elementary School has put a social change model called “Peacebuilders” in place in order for their students to feel safe, act in a peaceful and non-violent manner, and be able to manage conflicts and difficulties between students. Attendees can ask questions of the children, parents, and school staff about the programs, their effects, and their experience of using psychiatric medications before and now. These experiences add to the psychiatrists’ knowledge of how social context interventions can significantly alter their patients’ expressions of illness and improve their functioning.
Sponsored by the AACAP Local Arrangements Committee
Schedule:
8:00 a.m
Meet at Marriott in the Mission Hills room
8:15 a.m.
Introduction
9:00 a.m.
Board bus for trip to High Tech High School (HTH)
9:30 a.m.
Arrive at HTH for a presentation with staff and discussions with students and parents
12:00 p.m
Lunch together and guided discussion of observations and questions
1:30 p.m.
Board bus for trip to Naranca Elementary School
2:00 p.m.
Arrive at school for presentations about Peacebuilders (a violence prevention model) and by school staff and discussions with students and families.
4:00 p.m.
Wrap up, questions, observations of the participants
4:30 p.m.
Board bus for return to Marriott
