Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Dr Ouzhan

Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Dr. Oğuzhan Zahmacıoğlu

AIMS • a) Learning about the issues of child and adolescent psychiatry • b) Understanding the importance of child and adolescent psychiatry as a preventive discipline for promoting community mental health. • c) Learning about common childhood psychiatric problems.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: • Considers childhood mental disorders as developmental variations/deviations. • Needs to know normal development • Needs to consider child with his/her environment (family/community) • Needs to find ways to promote healthy development as well as treating mental problems so it is a preventative discipline of medicine • Child advocacy is part of child psychiatry

Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood or adolescence • • • Intellectual Disability Learning Disorder Motor Skills Disorder Communication Disorders Autism Spectrum Disorders Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Feeding and Eating Disorders Tic Disorders Elimination Disorders Seperation Anxiety Disorder Selective Mutism Reactive Attachment Disorder

Other Psychiatric Disorders • • Mood Disorders (Depression) Anxiety Disorders (Phobias, OCD, PTSD) Schizophrenia Somatoform Disorders (Conversion Disorder) Gender Identity Disorders Adjustment Disorders Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa) Sleep Disorders (Nightmare and Sleep Terror Disorders)

FORMULATION OF A CASE • • • Complaints History of complaints Background factors Tetikleyen Sürdüren

We need to know • • • Normal motor and mental development Family system Education system the child is in Health system Legal issues Factors that are related to child mental health e. g: child abuse and neglect, violence, bullying