Journal of The American Academy of Child Psychiatry 

About: Journal of The American Academy of Child Psychiatry is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Child and adolescent psychiatry & Poison control. Over the lifetime, 1727 publications have been published receiving 58151 citations.

Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships

Abstract: In every nursery there are ghosts. They are the visitors from the unremembered past of the parents, the uninvited guests at the christening. Under favorable circumstances, these unfriendly and unbidden spirits are banished from the nursery and return to their subterranean dwelling place. Even among families where the love bonds are stable and strong, the intruders from the parental past may break through the magic circle in an unguarded moment, and a parent and his child may find themselves reenacting a moment or a scene from another time with another set of characters. In still other families there may be more troublesome events in the nursery caused by intruders from the past. There are, it appears, a number of transient ghosts who take up residence in the nursery on a selective basis. Ghosts who have established their residence privileges for three or more generations may not, in fact, be identified as representatives of the parental past.

The Infant's Response to Entrapment between Contradictory Messages in Face-to-Face Interaction

Abstract: The normal feedback infants receive from their mothers in face-to-face interaction was distorted by having the mothers face their infants but remain facially unresponsive. The infants studied reacted with intense wariness and eventual withdrawal, demonstrating the importance of interactional reciprocity and the ability of infants to regulate their emotional displays.

Psychiatric Status of Hyperactives as Adults: A Controlled Prospective 15-Year Follow-up of 63 Hyperactive Children

Abstract: Sixty-three hyperactive adults aged 21–33 and 41 matched normal controls were evaluated for their psychiatric status by means of (a) psychiatric interviews and histories using the DSM-II diagnosis; (b) psychiatric interviews carried out “blind” as to which group the subject belonged, using the SADS-L diagnosis; and (c) by means of self-rating scales. Each subject was assigned a number on the Global Assessment Scale of the SADS which measures general overall functioning. Results indicated that about half of the probands continued to have mild to severely disabling continuing symptoms of the syndrome. A significant percentage (23%) of the hyperactive adults had an Antisocial Personality Disorder on both the modified SADS-L and the DSM-I diagnostic criteria. Schizophrenia and alcoholism or alcohol abuse was not found more commonly in the hyperactive group. There was evidence that the hyperactives had more overall psychopathology and functioned generally less well than did normal controls.

Retrospective Assessment of Prepubertal Major Depression with the Kiddie-SADS-E

Abstract: The Kiddie-SADS-E is a structured psychiatric interview designed to elicit and record past episodes of child and adolescent psychiatric disorder. In order to test the accuracy of retrospective diagnoses made with this instrument, a blind interviewer reassessed 17 children. The children had been initially evaluated with a parallel instrument, the K-SADS-P (present episode), between 6 months and 2 years prior to reassessment. Diagnostic agreement between the two different assessments of the same episode of disorder was high. Although this is only a pilot study, it does suggest that the retrospective assessment of child psychopathology based on interviews with parent and child may be a technique capable of yielding reliable information.