Hypotheses about the environmental variables that interact with constitutional factors in the development of schizophrenia or affective disorders include neurophysiological dysfunctions, which can be tested in a laboratory, as well as family interaction patterns and coping skills, which are currently being examined by accurate measurements outside the laboratory. Pooling data from different research projects provides a massive amount of information about the at-risk children so that it should become easier, in time, to isolate those variables that predict eventual breakdown. (54 pp.)
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American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 2
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Sociocultural & Community Psychiatry. Download the entire volume or choose any of the individual chapters below. (2178 pp.)
American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 7
Among the topics considered are endorphins and psychosis, implications of split-brain studies, the latest findings on the genetic models of mental illness, psychopharmacotherapy as applied exclusively to children, the child at risk for major psychiatric illness, borderline syndromes in childhood, new changes in the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism, new concepts of masked depression, biofeedback, concepts of human sexuality, new management of sleep disorders, the role of adult play in mental health, the prevention and treatment of mental retardation, the roles of computers in psychiatry, changes in law that pertain to psychiatry, current ideas on art, poetry, and music therapy, and the family of the schizophrenic as a participant in the therapeutic task. (2079 pp.)
