child psych

This systematic review and meta-analysis examines similarities and differences in intrusive parenting between mothers and fathers and relations between intrusive parenting and early childhood development. The authors integrated 55 studies and differentiated cognitive skills and socio-emotional problems as developmental outcomes. The present study employs three-level meta-analyses to reliably estimate effect sizes and examine a range of moderators. It finds a moderate effect size of similarities in intrusive parenting within a family (r = 0...

ITS MEANS AND PURPOSES. Obesity among children, like any other chronic pathology, has noticeable consequences on the patient's body and on his overall quality of life. As psychologists, we aim to explore not only the child's family environnement but also the way he relates to food and perceives his own body. As it is often the case with any medical symptoms, weight gain paves the way to the patient's psyche and internal conflicts. A kind approach is fundamental, respectful of the family's intimacy as well as the child's temporality...

Parents' perception of parental involvement or that of children has been found to be associated with the mental health of children. Rather than scrutinizing whether parents' perception or children's perception matters more, this study investigated whether and how parent-child perception differences (parents' perceptions minus their children's perceptions) in home-based parental involvement were related to anxiety, depression, and stress in children. We surveyed 2219 adolescents (approximately 12-14 years old) and their parents in nine middle schools in eastern China...

Most mental disorders appear by age 14, but in most cases, they remain undiagnosed and untreated well into adulthood. A scoping review showed an absence of systematic reviews that address prevalence rates of mental disorders among children and adolescents in Europe that are based on community studies conducted between 2015 and 2020. To estimate the updated pooled prevalence of Anxiety Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Conduct Disorder (CD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Eating Disorders, Substance Use Disorders (SUD), among children and adolescents living in Europe, a search strategy was conducted using MEDLINE, Embase and Psych Info and studies were also identified from reference lists and gray literature...

BACKGROUND: Foster carer commitment to the child has been shown to be of paramount importance in young children's recovery and development following abuse and neglect. In Dozier's definition of commitment in the US, there is a focus on both emotional investment in the child and committing to an enduring relationship with the child. How this relates to the routine practice of short-term, temporary, foster care has not been studied. OBJECTIVE: This is the first qualitative study to explore the drivers of, and barriers to, commitment in short-term foster care within the broader aim of examining whether short-term care is meeting the needs of maltreated young children...

BACKGROUND: Sleep problem is a highly prevalent health issue among pediatric populations across the world. In this review, we aimed to identify risk factors contributing to sleep deficiency and poor sleep hygiene in children. Potential biological, psychosocial, and environmental mechanisms as well as research gaps in the literature are also discussed. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive search for relevant English language full-text, peer-reviewed publications was performed focusing on pediatric sleep studies from prenatal to childhood and adolescence in a variety of indexes in PubMed, SCOPUS, and Psych Info...

The majority of psychoanalysts today admit that the body and the mind are not separate, but are on the contrary deeply intertwined with each other. Thus, it is possible to consider the psychic life as stemming from the vital necessity to process sensory information. Based on the recent discoveries of embryology, it becomes possible to rethink the consequences of the first inscriptions in the construction of the psyche, in connection with sensory experiences. This new knowledge makes it necessary to revise the metapsychology, making the first impulse appear as "tact-pulsion"...

BACKGROUND: Sleep problems in children have been increasingly recognized as a major public health issue. Previous research has extensively studied and presented many risk factors and potential mechanisms for children's sleep problems. In this paper, we aimed to identify and summarize the consequences and implications of child sleep problems. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive search for relevant English language full-text, peer-reviewed publications was performed focusing on pediatric sleep studies from prenatal to childhood and adolescence in a variety of indexes in PubMed, SCOPUS, and Psych Info published in the past two decades...

INTRODUCTION: Diseases, especially those related to the psyche produced by demons, are an accepted belief in many communities. This paper elaborates on the death of a child, a victim of an exorcism ritual, and calls for adequate awareness and preventive measures. CASE REPORT: The deceased, a 9-year-old child, was taken by her mother to an exorcist to 'expel a demon from her body. The exorcist caned the child for two days while giving 'water' to drink. On the second day, the child lost consciousness and was pronounced dead on admission...

Drawing on a historical ethnography of how Brazil's post-dictatorial psychiatric reforms have shaped young people's lives, this paper builds on Eve Sedgwick's analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion to show that narrow applications of Foucault's biopower concept nurture forms of resistance to bio-reductionism centred primarily on epistemic deconstruction. To unsettle this hermeneutic, I put young people's theories of power into conversation with Georges Canguilhem's concept of the milieu and with feminist scholars' work on prefigurative politics...

Jung used creative methods such as picture-making and active imagination to work with complexes and in particular trauma and dissociation. A clinical example of a 60-year-old woman demonstrates the benefits of using creative methods to work with issues linked to early life, such as somatic intrusions of early childhood trauma. Significant inner figures were delineated, including the original figure associated with the infantile dissociative split. The figures illustrated Jung's complex theory by making visible the nonverbal inner states that were initially feared and experienced as Other...

We aimed to examine the subtype classification characteristics of depressive symptoms in Shidu parents (SDPs, parents who have lost their only child) and their associations with resilience and coping styles. The sample comprised 182 SDPs (Mean age = 59.93 ± 7.41 years, 61.5% females). Latent profile analysis and logistic regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Three subgroups of depressive symptoms in SDPs were identified: the depression and pessimism group (38.4%), the low depression symptoms group (30...

Being a victim of violence and neglect during childhood can expose minors to significant health repercussions on the physical, psychological, psycho-affective and neuro-developmental levels.. Self- and hetero-aggressive violences in all age groups are now considered to be possible consequences of these severe adverse experiences. The place of the body is essential in this context. The body, often considered as the only tangible and opposable marker of violence, has a singular and integral place in the psyche and overall health...

An increasing number of large-scale multi-modal research initiatives has been conducted in the typically developing population, e.g. Dev. Cogn. Neur. 32:43-54, 2018; PLoS Med. 12(3):e1001779, 2015; Elam and Van Essen, Enc. Comp. Neur., 2013, as well as in psychiatric cohorts, e.g. Trans. Psych. 10(1):100, 2020; Mol. Psych. 19:659-667, 2014; Mol. Aut. 8:24, 2017; Eur. Child and Adol. Psych. 24(3):265-281, 2015. Missing data is a common problem in such datasets due to the difficulty of assessing multiple measures on a large number of participants...

This paper presents a discussion of issues concerning the concept of borderline personality disorder. We start from the constitution of the borderline structure, and move towards understanding particular aspects of borderline development, both on an individual and a collective level. This discussion is based on the examination of a progression in three different concentric circles: first, the context of child-parent relationships; second, interpersonal relationships established in the school environment; and, finally, an amplification of some aspects of contemporary culture that could be related to the current importance of this condition...

The effects of parental migration on the well-being of left-behind children (LBC) are varied. Several studies demonstrated that parental migration reduces children's psychological health but other research showed contradictory results. This study sought to clarify this issue by examining the mediating role of psychological distress and the moderating role of parental migration status in the association between the parent-child relationship and children's psychological distress. A total of 743 LBC and 688 non-LBC self-reported their parent-child relationship, psychological distress, and well-being...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Parental depression affects as many as 1 in 5 US families. Pediatric professionals can play an important role in detecting parental depression, yet most studies on parental depression screening focus only on the postpartum period. The authors performed this scoping review to understand the existing literature on parental depression screening outside the postpartum period (child >12 months old) and to identify knowledge gaps. METHODS: Sources for this research include PubMed, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and APA Psych Info...

BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper is to illustrate a different way to take care of our little patients, starting from creating child-oriented environmental conditions and proceeding using a specific comfort technique in paediatric dentistry. CASE REPORT: This concept of treatment arises from the inseparable relationship between body and psyche. It starts with instructions aimed at informing parents or caregivers not to prepare the child for the visit but to explain the child that he/she will be taken care in new ways...

BACKGROUND: SRD5A2 deficiency leads to incomplete masculinization of individuals with a 46 XY karyotype. A definitive diagnosis in early infancy facilitates decisions concerning choice of sex of rearing and management. AIM: To review the clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of children with 46 XY DSD due to SRD5A2 deficiency at a Paediatric Gender Clinic. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Retrospective review of cases of SRD5A2 deficiency (2000-15) managed with a standard protocol at a multidisciplinary clinic...

PURPOSE: To identify and describe therapeutic services provided to children and youth with disabilities living in rural areas of mid- and high-income countries and to summarize the benefits, positive outcomes, and challenges related to these services. METHODS: This scoping review involved a systematic search of four academic electronic databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Psych INFO, using a combination of subject headings and keywords related to (1) child disabilities; (2) rehabilitation: occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physiotherapists, audiologists, and recreation therapists; (3) multidisciplinary care team; (4) rural areas...