The children of alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals have a greater risk of developing a psychiatric illness. New findings indicate that gender of AD parents and the gender of their children interact to influence the nature and extent of psychopathology in the children. This influence appeared strongest in the female parent-female child pairing.
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July 21, 2010
Genders of alcohol-dependent parents and children influence psychopathology in the children
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June 18, 2010
What Is Childhood Schizophrenia? What Causes Childhood Schizophrenia?
Childhood schizophrenia, also known as childhood-onset schizophrenia or early-onset schizophrenia is basically the same as schizophrenia in adults, but its onset occurs earlier in life. In some cases the patient may be ten years old, or even younger. Childhood schizophrenia can have a serious impact on the child's ability to function properly. Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric illness...
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January 11, 2010
Cultural Considerations in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The onset of psychiatric illness in a child is a life-changing event for families. Families from immigrant and ethnocultural communities often must come to an understanding of their child's psychiatric difficulties while simultaneously interacting with an unfamiliar health care system and its practitioners.
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December 27, 2009
What We’re Like in 2010
Americans in 2010:Belief in psychiatric illness and diagnosis is a pervasive fact of life. We think nothing of hearing people announce they are bipolar to explain why their lives are off track and why they are unhappy. This, after years of watching televised ads about depression - could that be you and I? It's as though a single polarized condition were no longer enough to describe our emoti
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May 2, 2009
Tell me about your mother superior
I found this fascinating aside in a 1969 article on 'Psychiatric Illness in the Clergy' about a group of monks who underwent psychoanalysis, causing two thirds of them to realise they were "called to married life".The Pope immediately banned psychoanalysis from the priesthood as a result:[Bovet] suggests that many clergy would benefit from psychotherapy during their training. This was attempted i
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