Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Retardation, and Geriatric Psychiatry

by P. Pichot (Editor)

Overview

The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further this purpose, the Association organizes mono- or multithematic Regional Symposia in different parts of the world twice a year, and World Congresses dealing with all individual fields of psychiatry once every five or six years. Between these meetings the continuation of the Association's scientific work is assured through the activities of its specialty sections, each covering an important field of psychiatry. The programs of the World Congresses reflect on the one hand the intention to present the coordinating functions of the Association and on the other to open a broad platform for a free exchange of views. Thus, the VII World Congress of Psychiatry, held in Vienna from July 11 to 16, 1983, was composed of two types of scientific events - those structured by the Association and those left to the initiative of the participants. The first type comprised Plenary Sessions, planned by the Scientific Program Committee, and Section Symposia, organized by the WPA sections; the second embraced Free Symposia, free papers, video sessions, and poster presentations prepared by the participants. Altogether, 10 Plenary Sessions, 52 Section Symposia, and 105 Free Symposia took place, and 78 free papers and poster sessions and 10 video sessions were held.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461593690
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/21/2013
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Some Critical Comments on the Problem of Classification and Nomenclature in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry.- Studies of Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience in Children.- Problems in Nomenclature and Classification of MBD.- Anorexia Nervosa in Early Adolescence.- Neuropsychological Disorders in Childhood and Schizophrenia.- Teaching Child Psychiatry in the U.S.A..- Training in Child Psychiatry in Indonesia.- Basic Concepts on Hyperkinesis in Children.- Early Childhood Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.- Effects of Brain Injury in Children.- Childhood Hyperkinesis: Symptom or Syndrome, Discriminating through the Use of L-Dopa as a Therapeutic Agent.- A Childhood Variant of Manic-Depressive Illness.- Epilepsy and Psychosis in Childhood.- Identifying Lithium-Responsive Children.- Lithium Responsive Children and Adolescents.- Altered Prolactin Response in Anorexia Nervosa.- Artistic Media in Therapy for Children with Developmental Problems.- Importance of Neuroleptics in Treating Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood and Acolescence.- Mental Health Screening of Children in Japan.- Use of Rutter Scales with Indo-Chinese Children.- The Psychopathic Nucleus in Adolescent Psychopathology.- Minor Psychiatric Illness in Mothers of Young Children.- Brain Dysfunction as a Cause of Reading Disabilities - Cross Cultured.- The Social-Class Background of Mentally Retarded Children: A Study in Mannheim.- The Immigrant Child in the School.- Sociocultural Determinants of Postnatal Depression and Postnatal Blues: How Important are Tests?.- Puerperal Psychosis: Definition and Future Directions.- Postnatal Depression: Aetiology and Consequences.- Post-Natal Depression and Subsequent Child Development: A Three Year Follow-Up Study.- Maternal Mental Illness and Mother-Child Bonding Disorders.-Psychiatry and Mental Retardation: A Historical Perspective.- Psychiatric Syndromes Affecting Retarded Persons in Residential Care.- Autism and Disturbance of Social Contact in Mentally Retarded Children.- Schizophrenia in the Mentally Retarded.- Psychiatric Consultation to a Residential Facility for the Mentally Retarded.- Specialised Needs of the Retarded: Epidemiological Surveys.- Problem Concerning the Relationship between Parents and their Handicapped Children.- Mental Health Treatment Modalities for the Mentally Retarded.- An Adaptive Handicap: Borderline Personality Disorder in the Mentally Impaired.- Community Based Programs for the Mentally Retarded.- Mental Health Services to Community-Based Retarded Citizens.- Issues and Day Treatment for the Dual Diagosed: Mental Illness/Mental Retardation.- Epidemiology of Dementia.- Risk Factors in Late Life Dementia.- Predictive Factors in Senile Dementia A Clinical and CT Scan Study.- Cerebral Insufficiency in First Stage Dementia.- Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Aging, Dementia, and Down Syndrome.- Psychophysiologic Disorders of the Elderly.- Hypertension in the Elderly: A Sleeping Dog?.- Quantitative Computed Tomography in Elderly Depressed Patients.- Seizure Disorders in the Aged.- The Dopaminergic and Noradrenergic Systems in Alzheimer-Type Dementia.- Dementia in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Review of Biochemical Data.- Vasopressin and Cognitive Performance in Man.- Clinical Assessment of Cognitive Decline in Normal Aging and Primary Degenerative Dementia: Concordant Ordinal Measures.- Pre-Dementia and Psychotropic Drug Treatment with Cerebral Specific Phospholipids.- Progressive Brain Failure - A Home Assessment and Treatment Program.- Diagnostic Problems with Aged People, Showing Demential Behaviour.-Dementias as Multi-Stage Processes.- Mental Impairment in the Aged: Towards Establishing a Differential Diagnosis.- The Contribution of Blood Levels to the Reversibility of “Resistant” Depression.- Psychogeriatrics and the Family Doctor: Collaboration in the Care of Dementia.- Affective Disorders in Late Life: Pharmacotherapy.- Pharmacotherapy of the Organic Brain Syndrome in Late Life.- Metabolic/Circulatory Aspects of Gerontopsychopharmacotherapy.- Neurophysiological Aspects of Gerontopsychopharmacotherapy.- Paradoxical Relationships between Services, Needs and Outcomes.- Problems of Patients and Relatives at Referral.- The Boundary between Psychiatry and Gerontopsychiatry.- Evaluation of Effectiveness of a Psycho-Geriatric Sector Organization.- Geropsychiatry - Status and Services in India.- Family Therapy in Serious and Terminal Illness.- Day-Hospital Care for the Elderly.- The Place of Day-Hospitals in a Psychogeriatric Sectorial Organization.- Day Centres, Day Care and Day Hospital in the United States and Canada - Or how to Compare Apples, Oranges, Carrots and Shoelaces.- The Geriatric Day Hospital in Frankfurt am Main-Höchst: An Alternative.- Tentative Approaches to Evaluating Psychogeriatric Day Hospital Treatment.- Day Hospital Care for the Elderly in the Netherlands.- Psychoinvolute Disturbances: Therapeutic Possibilities.- Author Index.- of Volume I–VIII.