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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The emotional wellbeing of children and young people is just as important as their physical health. Most children grow up mentally healthy, but certain factors make some more likely to experience problems than others.

The mental and emotional health of children and young people can affect their mental health in adulthood and later life. Good mental health is characterised by a person's ability to fulfill a number of key functions and activities, including:

• the ability to learn
• the ability to feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions
• the ability to form and maintain good relationships with others
• the ability to cope and manage change and uncertainty

Our child and adolescent psychiatry clinics are focused on common and severe disorders of childhood that often persist into adulthood such as hyperactivity, autism, conduct disorder, depression and learning difficulties.

 

Consultants: (click name to view bio)

• Dr Catherine Mangan

  Dr Catherine Mangan

  Ulster Hospital

  Dr Catherine Mangan is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based in the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald. She is a graduate of medicine from Queen's University, Belfast. Dr Mangan has specialist training and qualifications in child and adolescent mental health and holds qualifications in cognitive behavioural therapy and family therapy.

  She has extensive experience working with a wide range of childhood and teenage difficulties including forensic and medico-legal complications. Dr Mangan has lectured at QUB for the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology, Masters of Educational Psychology and Applied Social Learning Theory Courses. She acts as an expert witness for children within the NI Court and legal system. Catherine is married with two children.

• Dr Margaret Grace

  Dr Margaret Grace

  Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children

  Dr Margaret Grace is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. She graduated as a doctor from the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in Dublin.

  Subsequent to this Dr Grace specialised in psychiatry and completed higher specialist training in child and adolescent psychiatry in Northern Ireland. She holds a Diploma in Child Health and is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatry. In addition, Dr Grace has a Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from University College, Dublin. She holds an advanced diploma in the management of psychological trauma from Nottingham University.

  In the past she has taught on the Social Learning theory diploma course at QUB and lectures regularly to medical students and doctors training in psychiatry. Dr Grace previously worked in the speciality of Forensic Psychiatry and regularly provides medico-legal reports for the legal system. Margaret is married and has a son and a daughter.