Psychosis is a severe disruption of thought, perception, and behavior resulting in loss of reality testing. Psychosis can occur as part of a mood disorder, such as major depressive disorder or bipolar I disorder; between mood disorder episodes, as in…
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Lying There are various reasons why a child might lie. For children between ages 2 and 4 yr, lying can be used as a method of playing with language. By observing the reactions of parents, preschoolers learn about expectations for honesty…
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The disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders are interrelated sets of psychiatric symptoms characterized by a core deficit in self-regulation of anger, aggression, defiance, and antisocial behaviors. The disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders include oppositional defiant, intermittent explosive, conduct, other specified/unspecified…
Youth suicide is a major public health problem. In 2014 for all youth between ages 10 and 19 yr in the United States, suicide was the 2nd leading cause of death, with approximately 5,500 lives lost each year. The suicide rate…
Mood disorders are interrelated sets of psychiatric symptoms characterized by a core deficit in emotional self-regulation. Classically, the mood disorders have been divided into depressive and bipolar disorders, representing the two emotional polarities, dysphoric (“low”) and euphoric (“high”) mood. Major…
Motor disorders are interrelated sets of psychiatric symptoms characterized by abnormal motor movements and associated phenomena. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), motor disorders include tic, stereotypic movement, and developmental coordination disorders. Tic disorders…
Pediatric psychosomatic medicine deals with the relation between physical and psychological factors in the causation or maintenance of disease states. The process whereby distress is experienced and expressed in physical symptoms is referred to as somatization or psychosomatic illness .…