An Investigation of a Group of Patients who have Attended both the Child and Adult Departments of the same Psychiatric Hospital

Pritchard, Michael; Graham, Philip

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“…Even the identification of groups with multiple risk factors (Tables 7 and 8) did not yield high numbers of cases and attempts to improve on poor sensitivity by lowering thresholds for selection inevitably led to corresponding falls in specificity. These modest relationships between childhood behaviour and temperament and adult neurosis were consistent with previous work using patient samples (Warren, 1965;Pritchard& Graham, 1966;Robins, 1966;Mellsop, 1972;Kupferetal., 1975;Zeitlin, 1986) and population samples (Livson & Peskin, 1967;Block, 1971;Abe, 1972;Kandel & Davies, 1986). Gontinuity was in fact greater than expected from some studies (e.g.…”

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Behaviour and Personality in Childhood as Predictors of Adult Psychiatric Disorder

Rodgers

1990

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Associations between childhood behaviour and personality and adult affective disorder were investigated in a 36-year follow-up of a national birth cohort. A number of early characteristics were significantly related to adult outcome including enuresis, nailbiting, speech problems, truancy and composite indices of behaviour and personality. Continuity was not explained by factors acting independently on child and adult measures. Prediction of adult disorder, although better for women, was modest in both sexes and sensitivity and specificity would not justify widespread intervention. However, childhood measures should prove valuable in investigating chains of influence on adult disorder, occurring throughout individuals' life histories.

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Behaviour and Personality in Childhood as Predictors of Adult Psychiatric Disorder

Rodgers

1990

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…This can be demonstrated for psychological health potential by research showing that childhood behaviour and personality are associated with adult psychiatric disorder or tendency to psychiatric disorder.56 This is further supported by work linking childhood behaviour and temperament with adult neurosis.57"' Similarly, height has been shown to be an indicator for the risk of future morbidity, as can be demonstrated by the association of short stature with a higher mortality from stroke, ischaemic heart disease, rheumatic heart disease and chronic bronchitis.62 However, the associations between childhood health potential and later excess mortality and morbidity should not be thought of as a direct link. A study of Finnish men aged [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] years,6" found that adult socioeconomic conditions were far more important in determining risk of all cause cardiovascular mortality than childhood conditions. This highlights the importance of conditions throughout life for their contribution to risk of excess morbidity.…”

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Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men in Great Britain.

Montgomery

Bartley

Cook

et al. 1996

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

122

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Objective -To identify health and socioeconomic factors in childhood that are precursors of unemployment in early adult life and to examine the hypothesis that young men who become unemployed are more likely to have accumulated risks to health during childhood. Design -Longitudinal birth cohort study. The amount of unemployment experienced in early adult life up to age 32 years was the outcome measure used. Exposure measures to indicate vulnerability to future ill health were: height at age 7 years and the Bristol social adjustment guide (BSAG) at age 11 years, a measure of behavioural maladjustment. Socioeconomic measures were: social class at birth, crowding at age 7, qualifications attained before labour market entry, and region of residence. Setting -Great Britain. Subjects -Altogether 2256 men with complete data from the national child development study (NCDS). The NCDS has collected data on all men and women born in one week in 1958 and has followed them up using interviews, self completion questionnaires, and medical examinations at birth and at ages 7, 11, 16, 23 and 33 years. Results -A total of 269 men (11.9%) experienced more than one year of unemployment between ages 22 and 32 years. Poor socioeconomic conditions in childhood and a lack of qualifications were associated with an increased risk of unemployment. Geographical region was also significant in determining the risk of unemployment. Men with short stature and poor social adjustment in childhood were more likely to experience unemployment in adult life, even after controlling for socioeconomic background, education, and parental height. These differences remained when those with chronic childhood illnesses were excluded from the analysis. The adjusted relative odds for experiencing more than one year of unemployment between ages 22 and 32 years for men who were in the top fifth of the BSAG distribution (most maladjusted) compared with those in the bottom fifth were 2.36 (95% CI 1.49, 3.73). The adjusted relative odds for experiencing more than one year of unemployment between ages 22 and 32 years for men who were in the bottom fifth of the distribution of height at age 7 years (indicating slowest growth) compared with those in the top fifth, were 2.41 (95% CI 1.43, 4.04). Adult height was not significantly associated with unemployment.

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“…It has been found that socially incompetent children are more likely to drop out of school (Ullmann, 1957), become juvenile delinquents (Roff, Sells, and Golden, 1972), underachieve academically, and exhibit high levels of physical and verbal aggression (McCandless, 1967). Similarly, several retrospective studies of adult psychiatric patients (e.g., Pritchard and Graham, 1966;Watt, Stolurow, Lubinsky, and McClelland, 1967) have indicated that those patients diagnosed as schizophrenic, sociopathic, and/or mentally deficient frequently have psychiatric records dating from early childhood.…”

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Issues in the Assessment of Social Competence in Children

Foster

Ritchey

1979

J of App Behav Analysis

181

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Recent interest in children's social competence has been prompted by findings of correlational and retrospective studies that indicate a positive relationship between early social adjustment problems of children and their adjustment later in life. To date, the assessment methodology in the area has pursued two directions: (1) sociometric measures (peer nomination and peer rating scales), which have provided the major means of identifying the socially competent child, and (2) direct observation, principally employed in the specification of socially competent behaviors. The current uses and the inherent assets and limitations of both strategies are discussed along with suggestions for enhancing current data collection methods. Issues concerning the definition of social competence, generalizability of current findings, and social norms are also examined.

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An Investigation of a Group of Patients who have Attended both the Child and Adult Departments of the same Psychiatric Hospital

Abstract: The relationship between child and adult psychiatric illness, though of fundamental importance, has received scant attention, perhaps because of the split which exists between the study and treatment of children and of adults.

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Behaviour and Personality in Childhood as Predictors of Adult Psychiatric Disorder

Behaviour and Personality in Childhood as Predictors of Adult Psychiatric Disorder

Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men in Great Britain.

Issues in the Assessment of Social Competence in Children

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