Diagnosis
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Diagnostic framework for attachment disorders needs improving
Reactive and Disinhibited Attachment Disorders (RAD and DAD) occur when infants and young children have not been able to form an attachment to their primary caregiver, but questions have been raised as to whether these disorders are being over-diagnosed in adopted children.
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Tourette Syndrome
Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurological condition that is estimated to effect over 300,000 children and adults in the UK; and one school child in every hundred.
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Welsh branch puts on dyslexia day with academic heavyweights
Conference review Dyslexia: From assessment to intervention This September saw ACAMH’s Wales branch host a one day conference on dyslexia in Cardiff. Over sixty delegates made the trip to the city’s All Nations’ Centre to listen to talks from leading researchers and practitioners. The day was opened with a warm welcome from Dr Owen Barry, […]
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The pariah of dyslexia
Sometimes, academia calls for a thick skin, particularly if you’re notorious for denouncing an entire area of research.
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Dyslexia and developmental language disorder: same or different?
Maggie Snowling looks at how we understand the definition, development and relationship between dyslexia and developmental language disorder (DLD).
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 09, September 2017
“Basic science and treatment innovation” by Jonathan Green
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 57, Issue 08, August 2016
“The search for core symptoms – will this help clinical decision-making?” by Courtenay Frazier Norbury
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 57, Issue 01, January 2016
“Distinguishing between the challenges posed by surface and deep forms of heterogeneity to diagnostic systems: do we need a new approach to subtyping of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders” by Edmund Sonuga-Barke
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 56, Issue 07, July 2015
“Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): a new psychiatric nosology whose time has not yet come” by Bradley S. Peterson
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 56, Issue 04, April 2015
“The shape of the nosology to come in developmental psychopathology” by Joel T. Nigg
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