The infrequent referral of Asian children to child psychiatry clinics was noted. By administering Rutter's scale A2 to samples of Gujarati and English parents with children between the ages of 4 and 7 years a lower rate of disturbance was demonstrated among the Asian sample providing an explanation for the original observation. Family and child-rearing factors associated with disturbance were i...

Today the prevailing view in child psychiatry is the biopsychosocial model of child development, but this was not always the case. Prior to World War II, and even in the post-war period, the environment was considered the major determinant of the child's development; the role of the child's constitutional characteristics was overlooked. The theory of temperament, formulated by the author and he...

2 Infant, Child, Adolescent Psychiatrist, IWK Health Centre; Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; member joint advocacy committee Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Canadian Pediatric Association; conference organizing committee, Infant Mental Health Prevention and Promotion (IMPH); Co-chair, Infant Mental Health Interest group Canadian Academy of C...

The Munro Review of Child Protection approached the problem of child protection from an understanding based upon systems analysis. Risk assessment in psychiatry has similarities to the assessment by social workers of child protection issues. Psychiatry as a profession could learn from the Review, and, in doing so, be supported in recovering and communicating the requirements for good clinical p...

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...

IN this new book Professor Illingworth is principally concerned with applying the fundamental and pioneering observations of Dr. Arnold Gesell and others to everyday paediatric practice. After quoting a number of cogent reasons why paediatricians, general practitioners and others should be fully conversant with the normal pattern of child development and its variations, the author proceeds to e...

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 ...

We begin this article by examining the role of intellectual disabilities within child psychiatry, highlighting the relatively steady role of disabilities and the recent movement to examine behavior in specific genetic syndromes. We next propose five questions for future work. Questions relate to (1) specifying the nature of gene-brain-behavior connections; (2) delineating environmental effects ...

As reported in previous issues of Mental Health, arrangements are being made to hold, under the auspices of the National Association for Mental Health and in co-operation with the International Committee for Mental Hygiene, an International Congress on Mental Health in London in August, 1948. The dates originally fixed were August 12th to 21st, but the Committees responsible for the Child Psych...