How to Manage: Adolescent Health
This one-day online course will give you an understanding of issues facing young people as they develop, and practical tips of how to engage and work with them within the framework of developmentally appropriate healthcare.
What is the course about?
Young people come with their own specific challenges when it comes to healthcare. On this new and exciting course learn from experts in the field of adolescent health about adolescent development, developmentally appropriate healthcare (DAH) and practical tips such as how to talk to and write to young people, addressing the areas they may be experimenting with ( sex drugs rock and roll!). How to support sleep and how to support getting people back to school and activities.
You will hear patient journeys in their own words. You’ll work through complex cases interactively before learning from specialist consultants in the areas of rheumatology, gynaecology, gastroenterology and eating disorders as well as contextual safeguarding.
An experienced multidisciplinary team will support solutions for those young people and families who are challenging to engage and make these cases easier in practice!
This is a practical course allowing easy meaningful and achievable changes to your practice.
Target Audience
Trainees, Consultant Paediatricians, SAS Doctors
Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:
Aim:
To equip paediatricians with an understanding of issues facing young people as they develop, and practical tips of how to engage and work with them within the framework of developmentally appropriate healthcare. To use a case-based approach to common medical problems to add to their ‘tool kit’ to help manage this group.
Outcome:
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand adolescent development and national themes and developmentally appropriate healthcare.
- Recognise and manage common adolescent medical presentations in children and young people within the clinical setting.
- Improve their management of complex challenging interactions.
Faculty Leads
Dr Terry Segal
Dr Terry Segal has been a paediatric and adolescent consultant at UCLH since 2007. The leadership roles she holds include clinical lead for adolescent specialties at UCLH, Co-Lead Pan London Post COVID service and Transition for North Thames Paediatric Network. She is the CYP representative on the clinical leadership group of the post COVID society. She was convenor of YPHSIG ( YP health special interest group)2018-21. She is particularly interested in supporting young people with complex problems such as ME/CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long COVID, persistent physical symptoms, and emotional difficulties and really enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team. Her >20 publications include post COVID syndrome, ME/CFS, and adolescent communication.
Dr Margot Van de Vijver
Dr Margot van de Vijver is Consultant General Paediatrician with a special interest in Adolescent Health at University College London Hospital (UCLH) and works in the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Adolescent and Children with Complex Conditions service (TRACCS) at UCLH. Margot is passionate about the delivery of excellent care to Young People and ensuring their needs are met and voice is heard. In addition, the involvement of Young People in their own care and ensuring Young People are involved and influencing the delivery of care for all Young People is important to her whether that is through educating Health Care Professionals or through service development.