Background Child mental health and child and adolescent psychiatry is increasingly becoming an indicator for any modern society to bring up child perspectives preparing for prosperous future. This field was lacking as an own medical speciality in the Middle East until the establishment of the Department of Child Mental Health at the College of Medicine, University of Duhok in 20 September 2001....

OBJECTIVE Since 2005, after a pilot program, the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) has provided point-of-care psychiatry expertise and referral assistance by telephone to primary care providers. We examined its adoption and use and the practice characteristics associated with different adoption timelines and use patterns. METHODS We merged data on calls to MCPAP in 2005 to...

introduction: the purpose of our study was to evaluate the frequency of behavioral problem in pre school-aged children with visual problem. methods: in this expost facto study, which was selected via convenient sampling , 143 children ranging in age from 3-6 years that refer to optometry clinic for routine eye examination were evaluated . after complete ocular exams including evaluation of visu...

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...

In October, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Association called for urgent attention to child adolescent mental health during COVID-19, noting that children families “have experienced enormous adversity disruption.” The pandemic has compounded problems “the inequities result from structural racism” which disproportionately affected communi...

Attending Psychiatrists/Psychologists (Child and Adolescent) [1] Attending Psychiatrists/Psychologists (Adult) [2] Attending Public Psychiatrists [3] Basic Neuroscientists [4] Chief of Psychiatry & Vice Chair for UCSF Fresno [5] Chief of Psychiatry & Vice Chair for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center [6] Clinical and Translational Researchers [7] Clinical Psychologists [...

Attending Psychiatrists/Psychologists (Child and Adolescent) [1] Attending Psychiatrists/Psychologists (Adult) [2] Attending Public Psychiatrists [3] Basic Neuroscientists [4] Chief of Psychiatry & Vice Chair for UCSF Fresno [5] Chief of Psychiatry & Vice Chair for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center [6] Clinical and Translational Researchers [7] Clinical Psychologists [...

Attending Psychiatrists/Psychologists (Child and Adolescent) [1] Attending Psychiatrists/Psychologists (Adult) [2] Attending Public Psychiatrists [3] Basic Neuroscientists [4] Chief of Psychiatry & Vice Chair for UCSF Fresno [5] Chief of Psychiatry & Vice Chair for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center [6] Clinical and Translational Researchers [7] Clinical Psychologists [...

one of the most sensitive problems, facing child psychiatry, is tire attempt to destroy oneself among children and adolescents. consideration of a child’s way of thinking in regards of self-destruction and parents understanding of the problem is of utmost importance. suicide constitutes the third most prevalent cause leading to untimely deaths among adolescents between 15 and 24 years of age, a...

1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M, Germany; 2Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 3Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M, Germany; 4Psychiatric University Clinics, Uni...