The NSWIOP Clinic is the teaching, training and research unit of The NSW Institute of Psychiatry. The Clinic aims to provide a sound grounding and practical supervision in the development of professional skills, knowledge, values and conduct to students undertaking postgraduate training in specialised areas of mental health. Students include those enrolled in the range of Institute courses including the Postgraduate Course in Psychiatry, Advanced Training in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, and Diploma and Masters level courses in Infant Mental Health, Family Therapy and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
The Clinic offers specialised mental health assessment and intervention services to adults, children and families in the general community. This may include clinical assessment with feedback and recommendations to referring agents, brief focused interventions ('therapy'), medicolegal and developmental assessment. The Clinic aims to facilitate and support student learning and professional development whilst providing high quality evidence-based clinical services to the community. The Clinic provides students with an opportunity to integrate mental health theory and practice, and their supervisors with an opportunity to observe and assess the application of their course based knowledge to the process of clinical assessment and intervention. These practices embody a principle underpinning the NSWIOP's philosophy.
The Clinic also provides resources and support for clinically based research at the NSWIOP