Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (CAPMH) has recently become the official journal of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). This joint venture can have profound implications for the flourishing of scientific research on child and adolescent mental health where it is most needed – in lowand middleincome countries. Alth...

OBJECTIVE The United States is facing a severe shortage of academic child and adolescent psychiatrists. This article reviews a model integrated pathway to improve recruitment. METHODS The authors review training portals for research in child and adolescent psychiatry. There is a summary of a focus group discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the Integrated Research Pathway in Child...

Child and adolescent psychiatry is a relatively new subspeciality and it is only recently that its practitioners have started to examine the problems of teaching it on the under graduate curriculum. Questions about when it is best taught during the undergraduate years and what constitutes a core curriculum are still contentious. Indeed some psychiatrists have yet to be convinced that it should ...

he recently revised American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice T Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder highlights the importance of clinicians maintaining an active role in family and individual support. Its evidence-based recommendations coincide with those of the International Association for Child and Adolescent...

1) Psychiatric Electrophysiology Unit Translational Research Center University Hospital of Psychiatry University of Bern, Switzerland Tel: ++41 0(31) 930 9369, Fax: ++41 0(31) 930 9961 mail: [email protected] 2) Brain Mapping Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Zürich, Switzerland 3) Developmental Clinical Neurophysiology Department of Child and Adolescent Psych...

how to cite this article: fayyazi a, salari e, khajeh a, ghajarpour a. a comparison of risperidone and buspirone for treatment of behavior disorders in children with phenylketonuria. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn; 8(4):33-38. abstract objective many patients with late-diagnosed phenylketonuria (pku) suffer from severe behavior problems. this study compares the effects of buspirone and risper...

This paper presents a person-centered perspective to child and adolescent psychiatric care first through an examination of the particular specificities of diagnosis in child and adolescent psychiatry and then through a review of the importance of empathy to approach subjectivity in clinical care. As such, this discussion highlights some key issues for person-centered care in psychiatry and medi...

Background The aim of the study was to examine coercive treatment in Swedish child and adolescent psychiatry from different scientific perspectives. The study was done in a multidisciplinary group comprised of researchers and PhD-students from child and adolescent psychiatry, law, philosophy, education and sociology. In this presentation, the design of the study will be presented and also some ...