Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Juvenile Delinquency 87 Box 7.3Elements of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) 1 Family therapy which focuses on effective communication ...

88 Chapter 7 delinquency. One problem with all prevention approaches is the difficulty of enrolling those families whose childre ...

CHAPTER 8 School Refusal Roughly 5% of referrals to child and adolescent mental health services present with refusal to attend s ...

90 Chapter 8 to leave home or attend school. In other cases, school refusal assumes a ‘somatic disguise’ without overtly express ...

School Refusal 91 herself feel happier and more secure when she has her child around during the day. The child or adolescent may ...

92 Chapter 8 3 Physical illnessis by far the commonest reason for non-attendance at school, except during the last year or so of ...

School Refusal 93 Once school refusal has become chronic, there are a variety of additional obstacles that need to be overcome. ...

94 Chapter 8 successful, emotional symptoms and relationship problems commonly persist. Though most school refusers become norma ...

CHAPTER 9 Anxiety Disorders Worries, fears and misery often cluster together, along with somatic complaints in many cases. Given ...

96 Chapter 9 disorder. Instead, what is inherited seems to be a broad vulnerability to many anxiety disorders (though post-traum ...

Anxiety Disorders 97 Varieties of anxiety disorder The three most common anxiety disorders are specific phobias, separation anxi ...

98 Chapter 9 takes only a few hours of skilled treatment to bring about a complete and lasting cure. Separation anxiety disorder ...

Anxiety Disorders 99 anxiety is increased or maintained by the parents’ own need to stay close to their child, by the parents’ o ...

100 Chapter 9 Treatment It is often possible to enlist the help of parents and teachers to reduce avoidable stresses in the youn ...

Anxiety Disorders 101 Subject review Pine DS, Klein RG. (2008) Anxiety disorders.In: Rutter Met al.(eds)Rut- ter’s Child and Ado ...

CHAPTER 10 Depression To avoid confusion, it is useful to distinguish between three distinct meanings of the term ‘depression’. ...

Depression 103 sleep. The symptom cluster of depression is not necessarily abnormal: it can, for example, be a part of normal gr ...

104 Chapter 10 they are probably the rule rather than the exception and they are not simply due to co-existing anxiety. Depressi ...

Depression 105 month according to ICD-10 and within three months according to DSM- IV) and do not outlast the stressor by more t ...

106 Chapter 10 Treatment Family therapy, school liaison, and supportive individual therapy are com- monly used to tackle depress ...