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Child and adolescent psychiatry Flashcards

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When do we get involved with children’s mental health?

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1 - some kind of probably mental illness

2 - functional impairment or risk

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What risks are we worried about in younger people?

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Suicide
Self harm
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse
Abuse toward the person
Groomed
Running away
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What function do we look at?

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Grades

Friends

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4
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What is a hallucination?

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Perception of a stimulus in absence of a stimulus

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Does children hearing voices mean psychosis?

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Not necessarily - imaginary friend, etc

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6
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What neurological conditions can cause hearing voices?

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Complex temporal seizures

Brain tumours

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What non neurological conditions can cause low mood and depressive symptoms?

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Anaemia

Endocrine disorders - hypothyroid

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What should be asked about in personal history?

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Ask about school they go to
Moving houses
How they get on with friends and family
Life events - death of parent, parental separation, breakups, major physical illness
Bullying
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What should you ask about the patient’s future?

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Ask about their goals and family’s goals
Check what their expectations of progress are
Formulate a plan

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What are the 4 p factors?

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Predisposing factors
Precipitating factors
Perpetuating factors
Protective factors

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11
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Is mental state examination past or present?

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Present

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12
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What is developmental psychopathology?

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Science underpinning psychiatry

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How can we find genetic factors in psychopathology?

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Twin studies, adoption studies

Calculate %of variance due to environment and % due to genetics

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14
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What psychiatric conditions are highly genetic?

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Autism

ADHD

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15
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What factors come into play in psychiatry?

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Environmental and genetic factors together

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What intra-uterine/perinatal factors can contribute to psychiatric health?

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Maternal health - antibodies, obesity, diabetes
Substance misuse - alcohol, marijuana
Toxins - lead, mercury
Drugs - psychotropics/antiepileptics
Epigenetics - folate controlled methylation
Endorine environment
Immune environment
Premature birth
Twinning
Impressive levels of resilience
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What are features of fetal alcohol syndrome?

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Growth retardation - head, brain, eyes, body
Facial features
Neurodevelopmental defects - sensorimotor, cognitive, executive function, language

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What are facial features in fetal alcohol syndrome?

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Short palpable fissure length in orbit
Thin upper lip
Smooth philthrum

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What is white matter connectivity?

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Functions that require interplay between brain areas

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20
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What is low white matter connectivity linked to?

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ADHD, poor concentration, distractability

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21
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What are outcomes of fetal alcohol syndrome?

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Learning difficulties
Conduct disorders
Combined ADHD and ADD
Anxiety disorders

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What are environmental factors during childhood that can affect psychiatry?

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Carer - child relationship
Parenting skill and parental mental disorder
Marital harmony, family function
Nutrition, poverty, deprivation
Abuse, neglect
Discipline
Day-care and schooling
Peer relationships
Life events
Physical disability
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23
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How does the brain respond to stress?

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Development and function of limbic circuit and amygdala

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24
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What happens if children experience early adversity?

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The brain is trained to adapt to a hostile environment
Increases perceived aggression
Increased limbic response
Preparation of aggressive response
Aggression
25
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How does head injury affect behaviour?

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Behavioural regulation is diminished

26
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What is executive control?

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Taking control over automatic and learned behaviours

27
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What is required for executive control?

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Self-awareness and capacity to self-monitor

28
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What is delay aversion?

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An inability to wait and maintain attention in the absence of immediate reward

29
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What is expressed emotion?

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Increased worry and stress from carer increase risk of relapse of conditions in child

30
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What is the difference between school refusal and truancy?

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School refusal is a fear of leaving home or going to school, truancy is unwilling to go

31
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What mental health problems are associated with being out of school?

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Anxiety
Conduct disorder
Autism
Depression
OCD
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What are effects of mental health problems on school attendance and performance?

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Learning difficulties due to poor attention
Co-morbid or specific learning problems
Difficulty controlling emotion
Anxiety
Lack of energy
Difficulties joining in
Sensory problems
Preoccupation
Associations between mental health and learning difficulties ie dyslexia
33
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What are motivational factors for school attendance?

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Learning difficulties
Lack of friends
Bullying
Lack of parental attention or concern
Being encouraged to stay at home - maternal depression
34
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What physiologically causes anxiety disorders?

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Amygdala is suppressed by right ventrolateral amygdala

35
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How can anxiety disorders be treated?

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Behavioural - learning alternative patterns of behaviour
Desensitisation
Overcoming fear
Managing feelings
SSRI
36
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What is feeding fear and escalation?

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A child has a physical anxiety symptom and is allowed by parents and/or doctor to avoid the cause, the child becomes more comfortable through avoiding it and anxiety becomes worse

37
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What are long term effects of behavioural treatment?

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The patient successfully overcomes a challenge, which increases self confidence, leading to increased resilience allowing the patient to challenge themself further

38
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What are long term effects of no behavioural treatment?

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Challenge leads to avoidance
Avoidance leads to lower self confidence
Lower self confidence leads to vulnerability
Vulnerability leads to the challenge being worse

39
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How do we do CBT with children?

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Children are less likely to have cognitive awareness
Parents are collaborators in the team
Step-wise approach
Overcome barriers to change

40
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How can we overcome barriers in CBT in children?

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Psychoeducation - explain the problem so it makes sense to everyone
Goal setting - setting reasonable objectives
Motivating
Externalising - taking blame, guilt, and anger out of the equation

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How is autism spectrum disorder defined?

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A syndrome of distinctive behavioural abnormalities

42
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How long does autism last?

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Life

43
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Are men or women more susceptible to autism?

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Men

44
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What is pathophysiology of autism?

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Synaptic protein abnormalities

45
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What changes within the brain going along the autism spectrum?

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Effects on synaptic function, neural migration, and brain development

46
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What are distinctive social features of autism?

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Reciprocal conversation
Expressing emotional concern
Non-verbal communication

47
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What non-verbal communication features are in autism?

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Declarative pointing
Modulated eye contact
Other gestures
Facial expression

48
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What repetitive behaviours are seen in autism?

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Mannerisms and stereotypes
Obsessions
Preoccupations
Rigid and inflexible patterns of behaviour - routines, rituals

49
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What are 3 domains of autism?

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Reciprocity
Language
Obsessions

50
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What is the difference between people lower on the autism spectrum compared to higher?

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Can see more than one perspective
Can give something divided attention
Flexible learning
Social understanding

51
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What are clinical problems in autism?

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Learning disability 
Disturbed sleep and eating
Hyperactivity
High levels of anxiety and depression
OCD
School avoidance
Aggression
Temper tantrums
Self injury
Suicidal behaviour
52
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What is the main cause of autism?

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Genetic

53
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What genetic disorders are co-morbid with autism?

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Rubella
Callosal agenesis
Down's
Fragile X
Tuberous sclerosis
54
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How is autism managed?

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Recognition and acknowledgement
Establishing needs
Appreciating can't and won't
Broken leg metaphor
Decrease demands - reduce stress and improve coping
Medication
55
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What are features of oppositional defiant disorder?

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Refusal to obey adults request
Often argues with adults
Often loses temper
Deliberately annoys people
Touchy or easily annoyed by others
Spiteful or vindictive
56
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What is the main difference between oppositional defiant disorder and ADHD?

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ODD is mainly learned/ environmental, ADHD is heavily genetic

57
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What are outcome risks for hard to manage children?

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Antisocial behaviour
Substance misuse
Long-term mental health problems

58
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How do we train parents?

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Inform by social learning theory

Focus on positive reinforcement of desired behaviour and developing positive parent-child relationships

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