ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a study involving child and adolescent psychiatric trainees that explored the impact of systemic training on their child psychiatric practice as consultants. The original idea was to provide child psychiatrists with the tools to work as family therapists. The Child Psychiatry Faculty did previously value acquiring therapeutic skills, but the emphasis on competent practice and self-reflexivity is new. Supervision is a task that all child psychiatrists are asked to perform in their daily work. The comments about working in a small peer group supported the vision in establishing a uni-disciplinary training to integrate systemic thinking and practice with child psychiatric practice. The course was seen as benefiting all aspects of the child psychiatrist's work, related in the trainee's mind to the specific focus of the course on their needs. The most popular components of the course were training in systemic interviewing, use of live supervision, training in a small peer group, and clinical work in a team.
