Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

PART 3 Risk Factors ...

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CHAPTER 28 Intellectual Disability Though both DSM-IV and ICD-10 use the termmental retardation,an increasing number of professi ...

230 Chapter 28 deviation of 15. Many of these individuals are never identified by medi- cal, educational or social services. Som ...

Intellectual Disability 231 Table 28.1Characteristics of mild and marked intellectual disability Mild intellectual Marked intell ...

232 Chapter 28 Several syndromes, including the fragile X syndrome and the fetal alco- hol syndrome, have already been discussed ...

Intellectual Disability 233 assessment generates a useful profile of the child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses. For childre ...

234 Chapter 28 short term. Continuing input in the school years may help maintain these gains in the long term. Just as there is ...

Intellectual Disability 235 routinely necessary, but may be helpful for the high proportion of individ- uals with intellectual d ...

236 Chapter 28 Specific behavioural patterns Some organic causes of intellectual disability are particularly associated with spe ...

Intellectual Disability 237 reasons, lower intelligence could well result in more anxiety, misery and anger. In the case of disr ...

238 Chapter 28 of neuroleptics can sometimes reduce stereotypies, ADHD symptoms, self- injury and agitation, perhaps particularl ...

CHAPTER 29 Brain Disorders The preceding chapter considered the psychiatric complications associated with intellectual disabilit ...

240 Chapter 29 Table 29.1Isle of Wight Neuropsychiatric Study Children with Percentage with at least one psychiatric disorder No ...

Brain Disorders 241 these are often marked enough to warrant a diagnosis of oppositional- defiant disorder, it is relatively unu ...

242 Chapter 29 resentment because of lost play time; and repeated hospitalisations can disrupt family interactions. Prognosis Is ...

Brain Disorders 243 purely psychosocial problems (such as sexual abuse), a dementing disor- der should be considered in any chil ...

CHAPTER 30 Language Disorders Many specific language impairments are associated with increased rates of child psychiatric proble ...

Language Disorders 245 Causation Twin studies show that SLI is highly heritable. Studies of one large family with a dominantly i ...

246 Chapter 30 disorderis rarer, and nearly always involves a mixture of problems with language comprehension, language expressi ...