Children and adolescent victims of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglectmay initially present to an emergency department or primary care office. The patient– health care provider encounter may have significant emotional, legal, forensic, and medical implications for a child/adolescent and his/her family. In general, the emergency department setting is not ideal for the comprehensive,mult...

This study investigated genetic and environmental influences on the associations between mother–child relationship quality (warmth and hostility) and adolescent conduct problems and cigarette use. Participants included 601 mothers and adolescent twin pairs (aged 12–17 years). Mothers and adolescents provided separate reports of mother-to-child warmth and hostility. A combined measure of mother ...

The progress of child and adolescent psychiatry has been greatly influenced by the development and implementation of diagnostic reliability studies. The key components of these studies have been the use of standardized structured interviews, the use of trained interviewers, and reliability designs that confirm the level of interrater reliability for a diagnosis or a number of diagnoses in a spe...

BACKGROUND The importance of epidemiological studies lies in recognition of cases that do not come to treatment settings. The increasing focus on child adolescent mental health in India points to the necessity of epidemiological studies on children. Although there are a few such studies done in different parts of India in different socio-cultural settings, data from those cannot be generalized ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between social contextual factors and child and adolescent labor. METHODS Population-based cohort study carried out with 2,512 families living in 23 subareas of a large urban city in Brazil from 2000 to 2002. A random one-stage cluster sampling was used to select families. Data were obtained through individual household interviews using questionnaires. Th...

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...

Pub Date 67 Note-94p. Abstracts are presented for 140 masters' theses and doctoral dissertations in the area of family relations and child development completed in 1%6 at 32 institutions. They are grouped according to the age of the subjects used in the investigations. Child development studies are classified as infant and young child, elementary school age, adolescent, and miscellaneous; famil...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a survey about teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in German-speaking countries. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to the 33 academic departments of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. RESULTS All departments responded. For teaching knowledge, the methods most commonly re...

AIMS This study examines associations between maternal smoking and family, social or child risk factors when the child is aged 5 and adolescent smoking. The influence of mothers who smoke in pregnancy or continue to smoke at 14 years was also examined. DESIGN The Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy is a prospective cohort study. PARTICIPANTS Participants included 8556 women en...

Systematic evaluation of child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient treatment is important but time-consuming. The aim of this paper was to study whether Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is a more effective method than a questionnaire sent by post when following up outpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry. Eighty patients were recruited from a child and adolescent psychiatric ou...