Child Psychiatry: A Developmental Approach

Services: primary and secondary health care mental health services for children social welfare services and child protection school influences and special education.

Abstract

Part 1 Overview: assessment family influences and parenting disturbances. Part 2 Development and its disorders: foetal and infant development feeding and eating control disorders sleep and its disorders motor development and disorders of movement language and its disorders intelligence and learning disorders emotional development and disorders of mood later social development sensory development sphincter control sexual development personality development. Part 3 Adult-type psychiatric disorders: psychoses neurotic, somatoform and stress-related disorders drug and alcohol use and abuse child-adult - continuities in psychiatric disorders. Part 4 Psychosocial aspects of physical disorders - general: impact on parents, the child, the sibs principles of psychosocial management of physically handicapped children and their families hospitalization care of the dying child. Part 5 Psychosocial aspects of specific physical conditions: stillbirth and neonatal death sudden infant death syndrome (cot death) chromosomal abnormalities malformations injuries to children infectious diseases disorders of the central nervous system and muscle metabolic disorders endocrine disorders blood disorders respiratory disorders genitourinary disorders disorders of the alimentary tract congenital heart disease skin disorders immunodeficiency disorders juvenile chronic arthritis. Part 6 Prevention and treatment. Part 7 Services: primary and secondary health care mental health services for children social welfare services and child protection school influences and special education.