Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

CHAPTER 23 Introduction to Adolescence and Its Disorders Since adolescence falls between childhood and adulthood, it is not sur- ...

188 Chapter 23 Rules and autonomy During adolescence there is a shift from accepting rules and boundaries imposed by others to s ...

Introduction to Adolescence and Its Disorders 189 sample of girls entered puberty at least two years earlier than average. As ad ...

190 Chapter 23 authority and adult norms, predisposing them to delinquency and sub- stance abuse. An identity based on the rejec ...

Introduction to Adolescence and Its Disorders 191 Box 23.1Isle of Wight follow-up (Rutteret al., 1976) Method A total population ...

192 Chapter 23 to adulthood.Journal of Youth and Adolescence 14 , 267–283. (Investigates the effects of early and late puberty i ...

CHAPTER 24 Schizophrenia Childhood-onset and adolescent-onset schizophrenia are pretty similar to adult-onset schizophrenia – bu ...

194 Chapter 24 Box 24.1Some symptoms that can occur in a psychotic episode Perplexity (typically at the onset of a psychotic epi ...

Schizophrenia 195 Box 24.1 provides examples of some of the symptoms that can occur during a psychotic episode. Schizophrenic sy ...

196 Chapter 24 remember that the classical emphasis on there being a clear distinction between schizophrenia and bipolar disorde ...

Schizophrenia 197 Causation Twin studies suggest that the heritability of schizophrenia is around 80%, that is, genes account fo ...

198 Chapter 24 of serious side effects (for example, agranulocytosis). It is because of these side effects that clozapine should ...

CHAPTER 25 Eating Disorders Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the two best-described eating disorders. People affected by ...

200 Chapter 25 Box 25.1ICD-10 criteria for anorexia nervosa 1 Underweight:<85% of expected weight for age and height (due to ...

Eating Disorders 201 the disorder, perhaps particularly when the individual is apprehensive about the shift from childhood depen ...

202 Chapter 25 disorders, and less than half succeed in making a stable long-term intimate relationship. Around 2% die from star ...

Eating Disorders 203 Binge eating disorder Though this disorder is being considered for inclusion in forthcoming ver- sions of D ...

CHAPTER 26 Substance Use and Abuse In a society that permits adults to use selected psychoactive substances for pleasure or the ...

Substance Use and Abuse 205 Box 26.1Volatile substance abuse (VSA) Inhaling organic solvents, also known as glue sniffing, is a ...

206 Chapter 26 sensitive to repeated alcoholic binges, with hippocampal cell loss, poten- tially resulting in impaired memory an ...