After completing the course, participants should:

• Be able to explain ethical issues related to having children and adolescents as research subjects
• Be able to conduct preparatory groundwork for clinical trials in psychiatric research, including development of a study protocol, ethical application and trial registration
• Be able to describe study monitoring and study documentation routines in child psychiatric research
• Be able to register and report adverse events and side effects in studies with children and adolescents
• Be able to account for relevant considerations in the choice of assessment method (e.g., childadapted diagnostic interviews) and explain the implications of having multiple informants (children, parents and clinicians) in clinical trials with youths
• Be able to desribe procedures for blind assessments with children and adolescents