Learners
The Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Zero to Thrive offer destination training for multiple disciplines interested in perinatal and infant and young children's mental health.
Multidisciplinary Training
The Perinatal and Infant and Early Childhood Psychiatry Clinics provide multidisciplinary training opportunities for medical students, Psychiatry Residents and Fellows, Psychology Trainees and Post-Doctoral Fellows, Social Work Interns and Post Graduate Fellows, and UM OB/GYN Women’s Health Fellows. UM students as well as students from other institutions have taken advantage of the opportunity to prepare to be a clinician that is able to provide women, infants, and young children with exceptional care. We provide opportunities to learn in a multidisciplinary setting among national and international leaders. We seek passionate, highly-motivated individuals across disciplines and levels who seek to have an impact on women, families, and young children.
Training includes, but is not limited to:
Observation & Learning Opportunities
The Zero to Thrive Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinic is a multidisciplinary, specialty team within Michigan Medicine Ambulatory Psychiatry that provides a range of clinical services for birthing parents with mood and related disorders (anxiety, trauma, depression, adjustment, hormone/reproductive concerns) around the time of childbearing. The team provides both consultation and time-limited continuing care to support the birthing parent, the infant-parent dyad as well as the family unit. Our team consists of psychologists, social workers, physician's assistants, psychiatrists, a perinatal case manager and clinic manager, interns and practicum students in psychology, social work as well as medical students. In addition to diagnostic assessment, we provide
individual therapy, group therapy, psychopharmacology, resource connection and coordination as well as relational health visits. Our relational health
visits offer the birthing parent an opportunity to see their strengths, notice their infant’s cues and development, express concerns/fears and to celebrate the
unique relationship that is growing. Our clinic runs on Tuesday morning 8-12pm and afternoon 1-5pm with an opportunity for learning in a virtual
platform as well as the individually arranged opportunity for in person learning.
The Zero to Thrive Infant and Early Childhood Clinic team members are national experts in early childhood mental health and represent a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, and social work. Using evidence-based strategies for evaluating child behavior and development, as well as family strengths and challenges, the team provides families with support and resources to strengthen parenting and address children’s needs. In addition to a diagnostic assessment of the child, the Infant and Early Childhood Clinic provides parents with individually tailored support and guidance.
APA-Accredited Postdoctoral Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Zero to Thrive Early Childhood Focus
Michigan Medicine and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS) have collaborated to create a Network of training programs, consisting of two dual-site programs and two single-site programs. The two dual-site programs are in Clinical Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, and the single-site programs are in Clinical Child Psychology and in Mental Health Treatment and Research (at SMITREC). The Clinical Neuropsychology and Clinical Child Psychology programs are both additionally accredited as specialty practice areas.
Relevant Courses at UM
For those seeking coursework in this area, a file put together by MPH student, Rachel Varisco, lists Zero to Thrive relevant courses across a broad range of University of Michigan departments: