What is Clinical Child Psychology?
Clinical Child Psychologists have studied how children and adolescents develop, the problems families experience and the way that children and young people think and learn. They have developed a number of ways of looking at these problems and ways of trying to solve them. As these problems can be caused by emotional reactions, Clinical Child Psychologists are often consulted. The Clinical Child Psychologist on the Paediatric Cardiology unit at the LGI works with individual children, young people and their families. The Psychologist also works as part of the multidisciplinary team of Doctors, Nurses, Dieticians, Physiotherapists, Surgeons, liason Nurses, and many of the other professionals you may meet whilst on the unit or in clinics. The Clinical Child Psychologists work with CHD children and their families Researchers who have studied families who have a child or children with a chronic illness have recognised that having a heart condition, or bringing up a child, who has, can be str
