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Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Karl Coldman. What Is Child And Adolescent Psychiatry? How Do We Work? What Types of disorder Epidemiology Aetiology Management. Outline. What do you think Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is? How do you think we work?

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Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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  1. Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Dr. Karl Coldman

  2. What Is Child And Adolescent Psychiatry? How Do We Work? What Types of disorder Epidemiology Aetiology Management Outline

  3. What do you think Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is? How do you think we work? What types of disorders do you think we see? How often do we see these problems? What causes these problems? How do you think we manage these problems? Outline

  4. What you really want to know? • Where do I go? • When do I go? • What do I do? • How do I do it?

  5. What is Child Psychiatry?How do we work? • The branch of psychiatry that specializes in: • Study • Diagnosis • Treatment and • Prevention of psychopathological disorders of children, adolescents, and their families. • Multiagency.

  6. What is Child Psychiatry?How do we work? • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry encompasses • the clinical investigation of phenomenology • biologic factors, • psychosocial factors, • genetic factors, • demographic factors, • environmental factors, • history, • and the response to interventions of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders (Kaplan and Saddock).

  7. What types of Disorder • Pervasive developmental disorders • Childhood Autism • Rett’s syndrome • Asperger’s syndrome

  8. What types of Disorder • Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood • Hyperkinetic disorders • Conduct Disorders • Emotional disorders with onset specific to childhood • Separation anxiety • Sibling Rivalry disorder

  9. What types of Disorder • Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood • Disorders of social Functioning • Elective mutism • Reactive attachment disorder • Tic Disorders • Combined vocal and multiple motor tic disorder • Other behavioural/emotional disorders • Nonorganic enuresis • Nonorganic encopresis • Pica

  10. Epidemiology • Overall Prevalence 7-25% • Common • Conduct disorder • Anxiety and depressive disorders • ADHD – 3-5% • ASD – 0.5 – 5 per 1000

  11. Aetiology • “surgical sieve”

  12. Aetiology /Management

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