PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition

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Attachment theory began when John Bowlby rebelled from the psychoanalytic establishment by, for the first time, observing families interacting in order to understand individuals. Bowlby was later joined by Mary Ainsworth who developed on of the most iconic clinical tools in the history of child psychology: The Strange Situation. This episode begins with Bowlby and Ainsworth and explores the difference between their conceptions of attachment and those later proposed by Rudolf Schaffer and Peggy Emerson. It ends by relating how different parenting styles, as conceptualized by Diana Baumrind, Eleanor Maccoby and John Martin, can affect the development of attachment styles.

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While it may seem quaint today, the radical contribution that Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess made to child development was to look at children as unique individuals with very different innate approaches to the world that were present at birth. While processes like attachment and their psychosocial context help to determine a child’s outcome, what Thomas and Chess emphasized was a child’s temperament, their own style of thinking and of interacting with the world.

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Following Freud, there were many researchers trying to make sense of child development using his psychosexual approach as a framework. Among those that adopted the psychoanalytic approach was his daughter, Anna Freud, who has been called “the mother of child psychoanalysis.” Other mothers include the developers of Object Relations including Melanie Klein and Margaret Mahler.

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This episode focuses on communication disorders in children, specifically language, speech sound, fluency, and social communication disorders. It differentiates these disorders through case vignettes, comparing and contrasting DSM-5 TR criteria, and highlighting key features of each disorder.

Language Disorder is characterized by persistent difficulties in language acquisition and use, impacting both comprehension and production.

Speech Sound Disorder involves persistent difficulty with speech sound production, interfering with intelligibility.

Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering) is characterized by disturbances in speech fluency and time patterning, including repetitions, prolongations, and blocks.

Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder presents as persistent difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication.

These disorders can co-occur and that careful assessment is necessary for accurate diagnosis and differentiation from other conditions.

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Now that we carry around casinos in our pockets, the rates of gambling disorder among adolescents is skyrocketing. Yet, gambling disorder may be the most under-diagnosed disorder in the DSM. This is an exhaustive treatment of the neurobiological, psychological, and societal aspects of gambling addiction, featuring discussions on the brain's reward system, cognitive distortions, and the impact of advertising and the design of gambling products.

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Feedback can be emailed to [email protected] OR submitted via a form at https://psydactic.com.
This is not medical advice. Please see a licensed physician for any personal questions regarding your own or your child's health.