In addition, we investigated whether
adolescent psychiatric symptoms mediate the association between childhood adversities and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood, as recent research8 has suggested.
Not exact matches
Along with associated
symptoms, there are a number of
psychiatric disorders that are commonly found in children and
adolescents who have been traumatized.
The
adolescents were divided into high and low risk groups based upon assessments of their
psychiatric symptoms.
«CBD may protect against
psychiatric risk from high - THC cannabis strains: Neuroscientists find cannabidiol reduces
symptoms such as impaired memory in
adolescent mice simultaneously exposed to THC.»
Despite high rates of trauma exposure (46 % -96 %) and significant posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; 21 % -29 %)
symptoms in
adolescent psychiatric inpatients, there is a dearth of research on effective
A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial
adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of
psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more
symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.
Also, anxiety and depression may impair
adolescents» ability to learn and thereby increase their risk of low educational attainment and school drop - out, which in turn are known to lower work participation and increase welfare dependence.28 The association between
adolescent anxiety and depression
symptoms and benefit receipt in young adulthood may also be influenced by factors that may increase both mental distress and the risk of receiving medical benefits such as the various somatic and
psychiatric conditions that are associated anxiety and depression.
Anxiety, disruptive, eating, mood, and substance use disorders were assessed during adolescence and early adulthood using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children.36 The parent and offspring versions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children were administered during the
adolescent interviews because the use of multiple informants increases the reliability and validity of
psychiatric diagnoses among
adolescents.37, 38
Symptoms were considered present if reported by either informant.
Compared to non-LD peers, youth with LD frequently report feelings of loneliness, stress, depression and suicide, among other
psychiatric symptoms.15, 16 For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers,
adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adulthood.
The Child and
Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment scoring algorithms can be used to generate either diagnoses made using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM - IV), 30 or scale scores that count the number of DSM - IV
psychiatric symptoms relating to any of 29 separate diagnoses or groups of diagnoses.
Such analyses are an important part of
psychiatric epidemiology, which in contrast with general epidemiology, deals with changing content of diagnoses and continuing refinement of taxonomic constructs.23 One important finding from these studies on TRAILS data was that only few
adolescents had exclusively DSM - IV anxiety or exclusively DSM - IV depressive
symptoms (DSM - IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, 4th edition).
The predictive value of childhood subthreshold manic
symptoms for
adolescent and adult
psychiatric outcomes.
When prescribed appropriately by an experienced clinician and taken as directed, medication may reduce or eliminate troubling
symptoms and improve daily functioning of children and
adolescents with
psychiatric disorders.
The recent trend in research funding at the National Institute of Mental Health indicates that there is interest in advancing
adolescent mental health research that takes a developmental - systemic approach in a field that currently relies predominantly on outpatient, short - term,
symptom - targeted
psychiatric and psychopharmacological interventions (NIMH 2008).
We can therefore draw no conclusions about the psychometric properties of the MAAS - A in
adolescents with
psychiatric symptoms or disorders.
The psychosocial variables were: exposure to childhood adversities; proximal negative life events;
psychiatric history; parental
psychiatric history;
adolescent self - reports of the quality of the family environment at age 14.49; and depression
symptoms at age 14.49.
Deficits in emotion regulation in many cases is the defining feature of
psychiatric disorder, and emotion regulation deficits predict multiple indices of child and
adolescent adjustment throughout development, including internalizing and externalizing
symptoms as well substance use and risk for addiction [e.g., 11 • •, 15, 17, 26, 47, 48, 52, 53 • •, 60].
According with the recent litterature on
adolescent psychiatric disorders, the internalizing
symptoms seem to coincide with a repressive, and thus maladaptive, management of affects and emotions (Rieffe and De Rooij, 2012).
Nevertheless a recent study (Gatta et al., 2016b), aiming to examine the usefulness of the LTP as an outcome measure, found that the LTP assessment of the family interactions might help clinicians to focus on the dysfunctional familial dynamics, thus improving the effectiveness of a video - feedback intervention with the families of children and
adolescents with
psychiatric disorders (i.e., significantly reducing internalizing
symptoms).
The results revealed that (1) for females and males, higher levels of depressive
symptoms correlated with a more depressive attributional style; (2) females and males who met diagnostic criteria for a current depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions than
psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed
adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms of attributional patterns for positive events, negative events, or for positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed on a number of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the relation between attributions and current self - reported depressive
symptoms was stronger for females than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.
The SDQ - s is a brief
psychiatric screening instrument for children and
adolescents consisting of 25 items, which make up five 5 - item subscales assessing Conduct Problems, Hyperactivity — Inattention, Emotional
Symptoms, Peer Problems, and Prosocial Behavior.
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