Focus: The Use of Rating Scales to Track Therapeutic Progress: General Rating scales in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Hirschtritt ◽  
Denise Bedoya
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry

scholarly journals Classifications in child and adolescent psychiatry: A risky business?

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. 911-912
Author(s):  
Falissard B.
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Media ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Risky Business ◽  
Art Critics

Psychiatrists, like most physicians, are fascinated by their classifications. Like art critics that distinguish surrealists, cubists, hyperrealists, minimalists, etc. psychiatrists try to reveal patterns of symptoms, emotions or behaviors from the patients they see in their day-to-day practice. But psychiatric disorders are not used and determined only by psychiatrists. As pointed by P. Zachar (2015), psychiatric disorders can be considered as biological dysfunction, patterns of symptoms helpful for treatment and prognosis, categories used by health insurances, categories used by judges, words used in the media, concepts used by sociologists (“The weariness of the self”, Alain Eherenberg).We will discuss in the conference what science can say about this confusion and what clinicians should consider for their clinical practice.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Equality in a child and adolescent psychiatry multidisciplinary team

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mathai
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Good Clinical Practice ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Medical Authority

The multidisciplinary team and its functioning have been much debated. Such teams have been encouraged as a basis for good clinical practice. However, exactly how these teams should function has gone through various phases. With the advent of family therapy, some teams have experienced a process of crisis and the dismantling of more traditional ways of working. This has brought about a lot of disillusionment within teams and also a challenge to medical authority in the team. Unfortunately, it seems that family therapy as a treatment approach has been confused with the organisation of a multidisciplinary team. Considerable stress has been produced in the process as each professional has vied for a position and role in the team.

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