title: Importance of communication training for psychiatric residents and mental health trainees.
abstract: Through the illustration of a clinical vignette and excerpts from interviews with trainees, this paper suggests that communication and communication disorders are essential issues in child psychiatry training. The vignette shows how communication issues pervade a multidisciplinary psychoeducational day treatment program. The importance of communication in the clinical experience and its impact on the professional preparation of psychiatry residents and mental health trainees are examined, and conclusions and recommendations for the goals of a training program in child psychiatry are presented which expand upon those findings.
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43699-0008, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Giddan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wahl
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brogan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003142:Communication; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D003479:Curriculum; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team