Play in assessment and intervention in the childhood psychoses

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Atlas
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Psychoses

Childhood Autism and Social Class: A Question of Selection?

1980 ◽  
Vol 137 (5) ◽  
pp. 410-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Wing
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Early Years ◽  
National Society ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Class Bias ◽  
Class A ◽  
The Social ◽  
Autistic Behaviour ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

SummaryChildren with typical autism, other early childhood psychoses and severe mental retardation without autistic behaviour were identified in an epidemiological study in an area of South East London. The social class distribution of their fathers was examined and no significant differences were found between the groups, nor in a comparison with the general population of the area. Fathers of children with autism and related conditions referred to an out-patient clinic with a special interest in autism, mostly at their own request, and fathers joining the National Society for Autistic Children, were of higher social class than both the average for England and Wales and the fathers of the study children. Joining the NSAC during its early years, and keeping up membership were also linked with higher social class. The findings supported the view that reports of a social class bias in autism may be explained by factors affecting referral and diagnosis.

Childhood Psychoses

1978 ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Stella Chess ◽  
Mahin Hassibi
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Psychoses

III. the Family and Social Background in Childhood Psychoses

1971 ◽  
Vol 118 (545) ◽  
pp. 396-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kolvin ◽  
C. Ounsted ◽  
L. M. Richardson ◽  
R. F. Garside
Keyword(s):  
Late Onset ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gaze Avoidance ◽  
Clinical Pictures ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

The first paper of this sequence discussed the division of childhood psychoses into those with onset before the age of 3 (infantile psychoses, I.P.) and those with onset after the age of 5 (late onset psychoses, L.O.P.). The second paper described in detail the clinical phenomena in 80 psychotic children so classified at Oxford or Newcastle (see Table I), and showed that this division corresponded to clear-cut distinctions in the clinical pictures. The I.P. group showed gaze avoidance, abnormal pre-occupations, self-isolating patterns of behaviour, echolalia, overactivity. The L.O.P. group showed hallucinations and thought disorder. With these two groups clearly established we now look to see whether anything in their family and background also distinguishes them.

Season of birth in infantile autism and other types of childhood psychoses

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Mouridsen ◽  
S. Nielsen ◽  
B. Rich ◽  
T. Isager
Keyword(s):  
Infantile Autism ◽  
Season Of Birth ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

CSF Monoamines in Autistic Syndromes and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders of Early Childhood

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gillberg ◽  
L Svennerholm
Keyword(s):  
Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽  
Pervasive Developmental Disorders ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Homovanillic Acid ◽  
Monoamine Metabolites ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Nerve Fibres ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

Spinal fluid concentrations of the three major monoamine metabolites were examined in 25 infantile autistic children and 12 children with other childhood psychoses, and were contrasted with results obtained in normal children and in groups of children with neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders. Autistic children showed absolute and relative increases of the dopamine metabolite homovanillic acid. The group with other childhood psychoses also showed an increase in HVA level; in this group there were also indications of high levels of serotonin and norepinephrine metabolites. The results are discussed in the context of a pathogenetic model for autism involving hyperfunction of dopaminergic nerve fibres in the brain stem-mesolimbic system.

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