Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Classification 27 are more likely to be referring to similar conditions when they use a par- ticular diagnostic label. There are ...

28 Chapter 2 as a result of biological maturation. The partition of developmental disor- ders between different disciplines has ...

Classification 29 Table 2.2The multi-axial schemes of ICD-10 and DSM-IV ICD-10 axis DSM-IV axis What this axis covers 1 I Psychi ...

30 Chapter 2 Further reading American Psychiatric Association. (2000)Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ...

CHAPTER 3 Epidemiology Epidemiology can be defined as the study of the distribution of disorders and associated factors in defin ...

32 Chapter 3 2 Epidemiological studies rarely address pathogenesis – different ap- proaches are needed to clarify the processes ...

Epidemiology 33 negative’ subjects makes it possible to determine how often the screening procedure generates false negatives. E ...

34 Chapter 3 Comorbidity Many individuals have multiple diagnoses. These are the common overlaps: Anxiety Depression Hyperkinesi ...

Epidemiology 35 Looked-after children and adolescents Roughly 0.5% of British children and adolescents are looked after by local ...

36 Chapter 3 Epidemiological surveys vary not just by geographical location but also by focus: A survey may cover a wide age ra ...

Epidemiology 37 What is common? Most epidemiological studies show that disruptive behavioural disorders (oppositional-defiant di ...

38 Chapter 3 Persistence When an individual has a disorder at two different ages, the continuity is said to behomotypicif the di ...

Epidemiology 39 Table 3.2Age at onset of disorders Characteristic early onset Mostly teenage onset Autistic disorders Depression ...

40 Chapter 3 psychiatric disorders – much higher rates than those found among children and adolescents with chronic non-cerebral ...

Epidemiology 41 explanation is that this excess of autism is due to prenatal infections with viruses that immigrant mothers had ...

42 Chapter 3 Green Het al.(2005)Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain, 2004. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmill ...

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CHAPTER 4 Autistic Spectrum Disorders Childhood autism, also known as ‘infantile autism’ or simply ‘autism’ is the best known an ...

46 Chapter 4 determine whether autism reflects the co-occurrence of the three features by chance, or whether the combination is ...