Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Sleep Disorders 167 the sleep phase is only two or three hours delayed, it is possible to let the adolescent sleep in for a few ...

168 Chapter 20 Night terrorsaffect about 3% of children, mainly in the 6–12 year age range but they can start at any age includ ...

Sleep Disorders 169 1 Sleep attacks: sudden onset of sleep even during activities such as meals. 2 Cataplexy: sudden loss of mus ...

170 Chapter 20 induce dependence, and often result in ‘rebound’ worsening of sleep problems when they are finally discontinued. ...

CHAPTER 21 Psychosomatics Splitting off the mind as a completely separate entity from the body is often lamented in contemporary ...

172 Chapter 21 links are the focus of Chapter 29, which describes the common psycholog- ical complications of children and adole ...

Psychosomatics 173 brain tumour may sensitise all family members to possible organic causes of headache. In many instances, anxi ...

174 Chapter 21 Box 21.3Psychologically sensitive handling trains the children and adolescents or adolescent in psychological min ...

Psychosomatics 175 success. However, by the time their symptoms are being presented to health professionals, the child or adoles ...

176 Chapter 21 suggested risk and protective factors are certainly plausible, they derive primarily from clinical impressions (a ...

Psychosomatics 177 and adolescents who have a psychiatric disorder, such as depression, in addition to their somatic symptoms, m ...

178 Chapter 21 Natural history The great majority of children and adolescents grow out of RAP; very few turn out to have missed ...

Psychosomatics 179 Conversion disorders Conversion disorders involve the presence of symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary ...

180 Chapter 21 The family The family seems normal in most instances; only about a fifth are grossly abnormal. They are usually c ...

Psychosomatics 181 Edwards M, Titman P. (2010)Promoting Psychological Wellbeing in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness. Lond ...

CHAPTER 22 Preschool Problems Many children under the age of 5 years have attentional, emotional or behavioural problems, includ ...

Preschool Problems 183 Box 22.1The Preschool to School Study (Richmanet al., 1982) Method This study is a random 1 in 4 sample o ...

184 Chapter 22 disorders, and emotional disorders as they grow older. Retrospectively, this continuity is often evident when ass ...

Preschool Problems 185 Treatment When preschool children have one of the psychiatric syndromes covered elsewhere in this book, t ...

186 Chapter 22 Stevenson J, Goodman R. (2001) Association between behaviour at age three years and adult criminality.British Jou ...