Showing papers in "Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America in 2009"

TL;DR: Diagnostic crossover from bulimia nervosa to other eating disorders is a rather rare phenomenon, whereas the high rates of partial eating disorders may explain a large proportion of chronic courses.

TL;DR: An up-to-date review on recent developments and expanding knowledge in adolescent anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related disorders covers diagnoses and assessment, recognition of typical symptoms, medical and psychiatric comorbidities, and current trends in epidemiology.

TL;DR: This article reviews the use of the broad category of internalizing disorders and data on young children using this definition, and the emerging support for more specific internalizing diagnoses in very young children.

TL;DR: Treatment of sleep disruption, by improving sleep hygiene or treating specific sleep disorders, is often associated with improvements in daytime performance, suggesting a common mechanism for the behavioral manifestations.

TL;DR: The first polygenes involved in body weight regulation have been detected, thus for the first time allowing in-depth analyses of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions and implications for treatment and prevention of childhood obesity are assessed.

TL;DR: Although the understanding of the mechanisms of change in eating disorder treatment remain limited, the empiric evidence for the effectiveness of family therapy for adolescent Anorexia Nervosa is gaining strength.

TL;DR: Although the development of sleep is a dramatic and relatively rapid process during the first decades of life, changes in sleep continue across the life span.

TL;DR: Developmental outcomes so far indicate significantly better outcomes for young children in this foster care program than children who remained in institutions, and earlier placement was associated with better outcomes but for others, timing of placement did not appear to matter.

TL;DR: A range of problem feeding and eating presentations seen in infants and children are described, some of which are childhood presentations of the eating disorders "anorexia nervosa," "bulimia nervosa", and atypical forms of these.

TL;DR: What is known about genetic and environmental risk factors with an emphasis on gene-environment interplay is discussed to improve clinicians' comfort level in discussing these complex issues with their patients.

TL;DR: A positive public health approach encompassing environmental, regulatory, sociocultural, and educational strategies offer the best chance of reducing obesity without increasing disordered eating patterns.

TL;DR: The sleep problems experienced by children with autism spectrum disorders are presented in this article.

TL;DR: A review of eating disorder (ED) prevention programs can be found in this article, highlighting features that define successful programs and particularly promising interventions, and how they might be further refined.

TL;DR: The authors present original research findings to support that the presence and severity of maternal violence-related PTSD were significantly associated with secure base distortion in a community pediatrics sample of 76 mothers and preschool-age children.

TL;DR: The authors consider attachment theory and the social context of trauma and sleep disruption, which appears to be a core feature of other pediatric anxiety disorders and the therapeutic implications of these findings.

TL;DR: Sleep characteristics of children and adolescents who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are reviewed, and sleep alterations associated with medications used to treat ADHD and comorbid conditions are addressed.

TL;DR: Several screening tools as well as comprehensive assessment measures are described and how the family context is affected by the diagnosis, in terms of adaptation to the diagnosis and to treatment is discussed.

TL;DR: This review presents expert consensus guidelines for the use of these medications in clinical practice, with a focus on the different classes of pharmacologic agents that are most commonly prescribed.

TL;DR: Clinicians will have a framework and set of clinically useful tools with which to effectively make evidence-based decisions regarding the diagnosis of BPD in children and adolescents.

TL;DR: Data suggest that not only special developmental relationships are operant in the context of comorbidity but also that the presence ofComorbid disorders with BPD results in a more severe clinical condition.

TL;DR: Neuroimaging techniques have been widely used in a range of psychiatric disorders, providing new insights into neural brain circuits and neuroreceptor functions in vivo.

TL;DR: This article provides an overview of some specific sleep-related behaviors and practices highly influenced by different cultural contexts.

TL;DR: The authors chronologically review research on the phenomenology and treatment of sleep difficulties in youth with depressive and bipolar disorders and present research-based and clinically guided recommendations for the assessment andreatment of these problems.

TL;DR: The course of children and adolescents with BPD is manifested by frequent changes in symptoms polarity showing a dimensional continuum of bipolar symptoms severity from subsyndromal to mood syndromes meeting full DSM-IV criteria.

TL;DR: The technical and theoretical contributions of the most important video feedback-based interventions that are currently used with families that include young children are reviewed.

TL;DR: Besides different treatment settings, a multimodal treatment approach comprising nutritional rehabilitation, nutritional counseling, individual psychotherapy and family-based interventions emphazising a group psychoeducation program for parents is presented.

TL;DR: These discussions emphasize the importance of normalizing traumatic responses, supporting the parent-child relationship and restoring trust, desensitizing the child's distress to traumatic reminders, helping the child and parents to process and develop a meaningful narrative of the traumatic event through expressive therapeutic techniques, and promoting effective strategies of restoration and repair.

TL;DR: The continued study of adjunctive psychosocial interventions will help identify critical treatment ingredients that target specific areas of functioning and enhance overall treatment effectiveness for children and adolescents with BPD and their families.

TL;DR: It is nowadays readily comprehensible that obesity can entail psychiatric symptoms, because stigmatization of obese children and adolescents, including teasing and bullying, is a common event.

TL;DR: The clinical applications and community dissemination of child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) is described, a relationship-based trauma treatment for young children and their families that has substantial empirical evidence of efficacy in decreasing symptoms of traumatic stress and restoring young children's normative developmental trajectories.