Community nurses in child psychiatry

Asthma education by community child health nurses.

A randomised controlled study of an educational programme for children with asthma and their families was carried out by community child health nurses. Three hundred and sixty eight children aged 2 to 14 years were enrolled in the study after admission to hospital for asthma. The intervention group was visited monthly by a nurse for six months. The subjects were assessed six months later by a p...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...

Child Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, and Director, Children's Psychiatry Service, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Oxford. Second Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications. 752 pp. 45s. Students of child guidance, of whatever professional discipline, are usually told that there is at present no satisfactory comprehensive text-book on Child Psychiatry. At firs...

Risperidone in Child Psychiatry

Some children benefit greatly from atypical antipsychotics. In some cases, their use markedly improves these children‘s relational and developmental prognosis. The indications for use also include, as is well-known, non-psychotic diagnoses such as: Borderline Personality Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, manic states, and mood swings. This article is the fruit of clinical experience with o...