{"title":"Psychotherapy with Schizophrenic Children","authors":"SHEILA CANTOR M.D., CLARICE KESTENBAUM M.D.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60286-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60286-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The therapeutic modality adopted with schizophrenic children has more often reflected the therapist's clinical bias than the child's treatment needs. Clinical case material is used to illustrate how the treatment modality utilized should be fitted to an individual child's needs. It is suggested that the therapist of schizophrenic children be prepared to function as auxiliary ego, as facilitator of sensory perceptions, and as coordinator of a multidisciplinary treatment team.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 623-630"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60286-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HARRY H. WRIGHT M.D., M.B.A., S ROBERT YOUNG Ph.D., JANICE G. EDWARDS M.S., RUTH K. ABRAMSON Ph.D., JOANN DUNCAN M.A., M.S.W.
{"title":"Fragile X Syndrome in a Population of Autistic Children","authors":"HARRY H. WRIGHT M.D., M.B.A., S ROBERT YOUNG Ph.D., JANICE G. EDWARDS M.S., RUTH K. ABRAMSON Ph.D., JOANN DUNCAN M.A., M.S.W.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60288-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60288-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fragile X syndrome, a recently described form of X-linked mental retardation, has been reported to be associated with infantile autism. In chromosomal analysis of 40 children who met DSM-III criteria for infantile autism, a large number of possible autosomal fragile sites were noted, but only one child was positive for fragile X. The authors concluded that the association of fragile X syndrome and infantile autism may be less frequent than previously thought.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 641-644"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60288-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Measures, Methods, and Models","authors":"NORMAN GARMEZY Ph.D.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60303-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60303-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 727-729"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60303-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55307727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Scott May M.D. (Film and Videotape Review Editor)
{"title":"Suicide: The Warning Signs","authors":"D. Scott May M.D. (Film and Videotape Review Editor)","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60312-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60312-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Page 736"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60312-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136650741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DAVID A. BRENT M.D., ROBERT KALAS M.S.W., CRAIG EDELBROCK Ph.D., ANTHONY J. COSTELLO M.D., MINA K. DULCAN M.D., NOELLE CONOVER B.S.
{"title":"Psychopathology and Its Relationship to Suicidal Ideation in Childhood and Adolescence","authors":"DAVID A. BRENT M.D., ROBERT KALAS M.S.W., CRAIG EDELBROCK Ph.D., ANTHONY J. COSTELLO M.D., MINA K. DULCAN M.D., NOELLE CONOVER B.S.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60292-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60292-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A sample of 231 children referred for psychiatric treatment were assessed with structured diagnostic instrument, the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC). A hierarchy of suicidal ideation from nonspecific ideation to suicidal behavior was empirically derived. Both the symptoms and syndrome of depression were correlated with the severity of suicidality, but there was considerable overlap between categories. Parents and their children showed low agreement, but high internal consistency for ratings of suicidality. The continuity between suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior is explored. These findings are compared to those of others in the literature, and implications for further research are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 666-673"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60292-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WILLIAM A. SONIS M.D., FLORENCE COMITE M.D., ORA H. PESCOVITZ M.D., KAREN HENCH R.N., CHARLES W. RAHN M.S.W., GORDON B. CUTLER Jr. M.D., D L LORIAUX M.D., Ph.D., ROBERT P. KLEIN Ph.D.
{"title":"Biobehavioral Aspects of Precocious Puberty","authors":"WILLIAM A. SONIS M.D., FLORENCE COMITE M.D., ORA H. PESCOVITZ M.D., KAREN HENCH R.N., CHARLES W. RAHN M.S.W., GORDON B. CUTLER Jr. M.D., D L LORIAUX M.D., Ph.D., ROBERT P. KLEIN Ph.D.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60293-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60293-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Precocious puberty is an experiment in nature from which we can learn about the effects of early and continuous exposure to sex steroids on human behavior. We studied the relationships between behavior problems, brain lesions, height, and two measures of sex steroid exposure in 77 children with precocious puberty. Behavior problems were assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist. We found that the diagnosis of precocious puberty regardless of the etiology was a risk factor for increased behavior problems. Although there may be important effects related to environmental and psychological variables, we found that older girls with idiopathic precocious puberty who looked closer to expected peer height and who had less pubic hair had more behavior problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 674-679"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60293-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological Adjustment of Seriously Ill Children","authors":"LaRUE ALLEN Ph.D, EDWARD ZIGLER Ph.D.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60299-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60299-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Twenty-three boys and girls with cancer, ages 5-10, were matched with a comparison group of healthy children. They were administered measures of cognitive development, adjustment, and humor. Few differences were found between ill and well children across a broad array of measures. Ill children were found to have lower scores on two measures of cognition, and more frequently rated a cartoon funny when they did not understand the joke. The generally comparable performances of ill and well children were interpreted as a manifestation of healthy denial among the ill group. Age and health group interactions offered evidence of the effects of age as a moderating variable in the relationship between a stressor and its impact.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 708-712"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60299-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schizophrenia in Children","authors":"PETER E. TANGUAY M.D., SHEILA L. CANTOR M.D.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60282-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60282-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>DSM-III-defined schizophrenia is rare in children, but because it can be severely disruptive to children's lives, continuing investigation of its clinical manifestations, pathophysiology, and treatment are important. Recent studies of the offspring of schizophrenic parents suggests that Bender and Fish's ideas concerning the phenotypic manifestations of schizophrenia in young children may be correct. Few studies of treatment have been undertaken to date. Recent investigations of risk factors in the families of adult onset schizophrenics have suggested ways in which innovative treatment programs could be developed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 591-594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60282-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92121213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VICTOR J. BERNSTEIN Ph.D., RITA JERUCHIMOVICZ JEREMY Ph.D., JOSEPH MARCUS M.D.
{"title":"Mother-Infant Interaction in Multiproblem Families: Finding Those at Risk","authors":"VICTOR J. BERNSTEIN Ph.D., RITA JERUCHIMOVICZ JEREMY Ph.D., JOSEPH MARCUS M.D.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60287-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60287-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The authors evaluated mother-infant interaction in multiproblem families to help identify those children vulnerable to development of psychopathology. They videotaped 16 infants exposed prenatally to methadone and 23 comparison infants interacting with their mothers at ages 4 and 12 months. Using a scale they developed, the authors rated the quality of communication. Neither maternal resources nor infants' level of neonatal risk predicted infant interaction or infant Bayley Scale performance. At infant age 12 months, mothers' interactive behavior was a significant concurrent predictor of infant functioning. The authors conclude that the variability of the lives of multiproblem families makes prediction over time very difficult. However, evaluating mother-infant interaction was a helpful “marker” of infants who were contemporaneously experiencing problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 631-640"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60287-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KEITH MARRIAGE M.B., F.R.C.P.(C), STUART FINE M.B., F.R.C.P.(C), MARLENE MORETTI M.A., GLENN HALEY M.A.
{"title":"Relationship between Depression and Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents","authors":"KEITH MARRIAGE M.B., F.R.C.P.(C), STUART FINE M.B., F.R.C.P.(C), MARLENE MORETTI M.A., GLENN HALEY M.A.","doi":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60295-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60295-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Of 60 children and adolescents referred for assessment of depression, 11 cases were found which met diagnostic criteria for both conduct disorder and affective disorder. These 11 subjects could not be distinguished from those with major depression on the basis of psychiatric ratings of depressive symptoms—both diagnostic groups were characterized by multiple depressive symptoms of high severity. Psychiatric ratings also indicated that depressive symptoms were more severe in cases of conduct disorder with depression than in cases of dysthymic disorder. Child and adolescent self-reports of depression were consistent with this pattern of results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":76025,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 687-691"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60295-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14877772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}