Zeitschrift Fur Kinder-Und Jugendpsychiatrie Und Psychotherapie最新文献

The transition from preschool to elementary school places demands on children to pay attention, control their impulses, and avoid fidgeting. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have investigated whether these characteristics are influenced by elementary school entry. The current study compares same-aged preschool and elementary-school children regarding their attention performance, impulse control, and motor activity. A total of 60 children (30 preschool and 30 elementary school; 6 years old) underwent the Quantified Behavior (Qb) Test. The children's parents responded to a conventional questionnaire for measuring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. We found that formal schooling (mean: 3 months) did not significantly affect the examined variables (p > .05). The results imply that improvements in questionnaire and computer test scores shown by previous studies are rather caused by maturation than the educational context. The assumption that inattention ratings increase after school entry because inattention can be better observed in an academic setting could not be verified either. Our study substantiates that the normative data used in clinical practice need not consider the educational context.

Questionnaire on Treatment Satisfaction in Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (FBZ-KJP) - Results of a Swiss Pilot Study Abstract: Objectives: Patient satisfaction is an established indicator for medical interventions. Existing questionnaires for the assessment of patient satisfaction in child and adolescent psychiatry are too global to target quality improvement in child and adolescent psychiatric hospitals. The assessment of patient satisfaction in child and adolescent psychiatry is very challenging because specific demands (development status, role of parents in treatment) have been taken into account. Therefore, an expert team leaded by the Swiss Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry developed a targeted instrument to assess patient satisfaction in both language regions (i. e., German and French). Methods: The article reviews the development of a new child and adolescent psychiatric questionnaire for the assessment of patient satisfaction as well as the findings of a survey conducted in a representative sample of 174 patients and 145 parents in six hospitals. Results: The internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .93) is excellent. The questionnaire has high levels of both convergence and face validity, and the correlation with the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8) is ρ = .80 (patient-report) and .83 (parent-report). Furthermore, this questionnaire reveals the relative strengths and weaknesses of individual hospitals. The correlation between patient and parent assessment is, as expected, moderate (ρ = .29, for the total score and ρ = .39 for the CSQ-8). Conclusions: The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire can be recommended to professionals as a standard for collecting data on client satisfaction within child and adolescent psychiatry.

Honors granted by the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (DGKJP) and its predecessors Abstract. Abstracts: This research on the "honors" granted by the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (DGKJP) investigated all persons honored by the society from 1950 (following the postwar reestablishment of the society) up through 1990 (German reunification). We explored the adequacy of the honors regarding the professional ethics of the honorees during the NS-regime. Ethics violations included so-called T4-assessments (euthanasia) leading to death, working in "special units" where children were murdered using drugs, or any form of nontherapeutic experiments on humans. The Heinrich Hoffman Medal was first awarded in 1957, with honorary memberships being conferred from 1963 onward. From 1957 to 1990, the DGKJP awarded 19 honorary memberships and 9 Heinrich Hoffman Medal to 27 recipients (one person received both). Of those honored, three were detected as violators of professional ethics. After long internal discussions, the DGKJP had already distanced itself from Elisabeth Hecker (1895-1986), Hans-Alois Schmitz (1899-1973), and Werner Villinger (1887-1961). The ideology shared by these three was formulated by Villinger as the "ineducability" of their child victims because of an "inferiority paradigm." The rejection by the DGKJP went little noticed in public, and until 2021 was only briefly mentioned in the society's newsletter. Eleven honored persons were former members of the NSDAP without demonstrable ethical transgressions; the investigations are still ongoing for three others, whose ethical transgressions have neither been ruled out nor confirmed.

Development of Mental Health Problems of Girls and Boys in Residential Care Between 2008 and 2020 Abstract. Objective: Studies show a high prevalence of mental health problems in children and adolescents in youth-welfare facilities compared to the general population. However, to date, studies on this development over time are lacking. The present study examines the development of mental health problems and psychosocial functioning in the years 2008 to 2020. Method: Mental health problems were assessed with the CBCL, psychosocial functioning with Axis VI of the MAS. In total, data from 3,269 children and adolescents from residential-care facilities located throughout Germany were included in the analysis. Results: a decrease in externalizing behaviour was observed regarding the frequency of mental health problem in children and adolescents in youth-welfare facilities from 2008 to 2020. Particularly boys aged 12 and older show less deviant behavior. Older girls show high internalizing behavior problem scores over time, but there is no consistent trend. More than a quarter of the institutionalized children in youth-welfare institutions show severely impaired psychosocial functioning at a consistent level over time. Conclusions: In light of the age and gender effects associated with the development of mental health problems over time, there is a need to regard the care situation in youth-welfare institutions.