Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Insecure Attachment 267 respondents resemble children with type A attachments – attachment behaviours and feelings are denied, r ...

268 Chapter 32 clinicians should not forget to assess all the other factors that influence the life course. Over the longer term ...

Insecure Attachment 269 for example, between borderline personality disorder and preoccupied or unresolved attachment. Future re ...

CHAPTER 33 Nature and Nurture Until recently, many studies of children and adolescents’ difficulties as- sumed that poor outcome ...

Nature and Nurture 271 Before reviewing a number of commonly encountered family adversities (see Chapter 34), it is important to ...

272 Chapter 33 Children and adolescents inhabit three rather different social worlds: the family, the classroom and the peer gro ...

Nature and Nurture 273 twin is knocked down by a bus (resulting in brain damage or PTSD) or only one twin has a best friend who ...

274 Chapter 33 Genetic influence Most psychological traits have been found to have a heritability of around 40–60%, that is, gen ...

Nature and Nurture 275 Precautions required when interpreting behavioural genetic studies A number of problems can arise when be ...

276 Chapter 33 pre-existing differences between the participants who were and were not exposed to the changed environment. While ...

Nature and Nurture 277 not necessarily mean that there is nothing in the shared environment bringing out schizophrenia in those ...

278 Chapter 33 classified as receiving better rearing. Any risk transmitted from adoptive parents was probably mediated by psych ...

Nature and Nurture 279 irrespective of usual variations in the environment, as appears to be the case for autism. Second, geneti ...

280 Chapter 33 same genes in the pups reducing stress response. The evidence against this comes from the lab equivalent of an ad ...

Nature and Nurture 281 Dodge K, Rutter M. (eds) (2011)Gene-Environment Iinteractions in Develop- mental Psychopathology. Guilfor ...

CHAPTER 34 Coping with Adversity Overcoming difficult circumstances is essential for survival. The success of the human species ...

Coping with Adversity 283 anything. Likewise, there may be no psychiatric symptoms, and children may be functioning fairly well ...

284 Chapter 34 Hospital admission Since pain and illness activate a child’s drive to stay close to an attachment figure, being a ...

Coping with Adversity 285 Divorce This often follows years of decline in the parental relationship, and this needs to be borne i ...

286 Chapter 34 history, one can ask about disciplinary consistency, and observe the num- ber and tone of critical comments made ...