Showing papers in "Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America in 2001"

TL;DR: It is suggested that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the etiology of ADHD, and data do implicate dysfunction in the frontosubcortical pathways that control attention and motor behavior.

TL;DR: Autism genetics has moved from a time of identification of heritability and determination of risk of "lesser variants" or the "broader phenotype" in relatives to a phase where some cases of autism have a definite basis such as maternally inherited duplications of 15q11-q13, identification of mutations causing AS, Rett syndrome, and FRAXA.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the research and theory on the psychosocial impact of armed conflict on children is presented, with a discussion of how research can contribute to improvements in assessment and intervention for children affected by wars in developing countries.

TL;DR: It is proposed that PMT should join the mainstream of broadly available health care provisions for children and their families, and this broad inclusion of PMT requires mental health educators to include PMT training as a standard part of provider training, and third-party payers have been reluctant to cover its costs.

TL;DR: Looking at the field as a whole through metaanalysis, Shadish et al concluded (based on 162 studies) that marital and family therapies were significantly more effective than no treatment and at least as effective as other forms of psychotherapy.

TL;DR: The "medical model" is an insufficient explanation for the high suicide rates, but it does not mean that suicide is a different phenomenon in China, and a multidimensional model is proposed to appreciate better the complexity of the problem, which can be applied to other countries.

TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of attachment theory and childhood depression and the link between the two is discussed, focusing both on pediatric and parental depression and their associations with attachment difficulties throughout the developmental periods, from infancy through adolescence.

TL;DR: The experience with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the development of a comprehensive system of care around it in Lebanon are described and recommendations for systems development in Third World countries are made.

TL;DR: Family therapy for eating-disordered patients attempts to facilitate the elimination of potentially life-threatening symptoms and begin a therapeutic process of change within the entire family.

TL;DR: The movement to develop expanded school mental health programs is still in its early stages, and for child and adolescent psychiatrists to become involved and effective means negotiating a culture that is novel for many schools and forming and maintaining relationships with diverse staff.

TL;DR: In this article, two relationship disturbances, sleep-onset protodysomnia and night-waking protody- somnia, have been defined, and a case that uses the nosology for diagnosis and treatment within the framework of parent-infant intervention is presented.

TL;DR: The first conclusion suggests that research in child development generally and child mental health specifically does not incorporate the social ecology of the child is seriously flawed and requires that intensive, sustained efforts be made to eradicate poverty and reverse the current economic trend toward growing economic disparity.

TL;DR: Cultural awareness and competence will continue to help clinicians understand better the impact of values and patterns in family cycles, family organization, child-rearing practices, and the expression of symptoms in family systems.

TL;DR: The advantages of classroom, playground, and hallway observation are that the diagnosing child and adolescent psychiatrist can directly observe the difficulties the child is having.

TL;DR: As the taxonomic approach is refined, there may be more success in identifying genetic and environmental risks for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

TL;DR: Preliminary studies of adolescent and young adult twins suggest a significant correspondence between the genetic contributions to some regional brain volumes and early-onset depression.

TL;DR: The genetics of reading disability, communication disorders, and mental retardation are reviewed and the first success story for identifying replicable quantitative trait locus linkage for behavioral disorders is identified.

TL;DR: The interwoven web of political, social, and cultural constructs must be considered to understand the context of mental illness, and therapists should not be content with the broad brush of cultural definition as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the relationship between family therapy and child and adolescent psychiatry by summarizing its historical background, highlighting points of conflict and polarization and areas of convergence between the two fields; identifying new directions for clinical practice stimulated by family research.

TL;DR: Problem-behavior prevention programs based in schools have been found to be feasible, acceptable, and desirable to school personnel, parents, and students for improving students' health status and educational outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, a family system approach to the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with physically manifested illness is presented, where a biobehavioral continuum of psychologically and physically manifested disease is offered to replace the false dichotomy of organic versus psychological illness.

TL;DR: The past two decades of research have demonstrated that Tourette's syndrome is likely to be more genetically heterogeneous than initially appreciated, and the combination of family and twin studies, segregation analyses, parametric and nonparametric linkage analyses, and association studies has made important progress.

TL;DR: The major challenges in cross-cultural research on child mental health and possible conceptualization and operationalization of culture and approaches to derive cross-culturally equivalent methods are discussed.

TL;DR: This work has consistently highlighted the importance of gene-environment interplay in antisocial behavior and the need to understand the role of environmental influences on conduct disorder.

TL;DR: The principles and articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child are introduced and the implications of this new conceptualization of childhood for child mental health are discussed.

TL;DR: The developmental perspective with its social and cultural contexts is an intrinsic complement to Kandel's framework for an expanded training of psychiatrists in the neurosciences and the associated innovative technologies for understanding the mechanism of structural and functional changes in the brain in various contexts and categories.

TL;DR: The role of culture in the diagnosis of children's mental health disorders is discussed in this article, where the authors advocate the integration of culture into clinical practice by balancing the use of categorical diagnoses with consensus-based assessment, including acknowledgment of the relative positions of clinician and child.

TL;DR: In this article, the types of families common in modern America and highlights sources of strength, factors that enhance resiliency, sources of stress for children, and challenges for the family found in each type.

TL;DR: As the myriad biopsychosocial factors contributing to school success become better understood, opportunities will expand for child psychiatrists to contribute to schools.

TL;DR: The goal is not to adopt the worldview of others but to learn about the view of others, respect those views, and use that knowledge as a foundation for creating culturally competent advocacy and practice methods.