The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder

Chang, Kiki; Shah, Deval

doi:10.1001/jama.298.1.96

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“…Should the same criteria be used for bipolar disorder in children and adolescents as are used for adults and in later life? Many have argued that there are important differences in the phenomenology and associated features of pediatric bipolar disorder, and that the use of adult definitions would contribute to misdiagnosis in children (Biederman et al, 2003;Geller, Tillman, & Bolhofner, 2007;Papolos & Papolos, 2002). However, there are several examples where apparent differences in presentation have turned out to be artifacts of definition and calibration.…”

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Definitional issues in bipolar disorder across the life cycle.

Youngstrom¹

2009

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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This article reviews the current diagnostic criteria for bipolar mood episodes and disorders, emphasizing gaps and limitations in the current definitions. The review also discusses terms that have been perceived as inconsistent between child versus adult presentations of bipolar disorders, such as "rapid cycling." The review links the DSM diagnoses to broader discussions of a bipolar spectrum, and to alternate definitions of "narrow," "intermediate," and "broad" phenotypes. Strengths and limitations of dimensional models of bipolar disorder are discussed. The bulk of the evidence suggests that research and clinical practice will advance more rapidly by using a consistent set of definitions for bipolar disorder across the life cycle.

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Definitional issues in bipolar disorder across the life cycle.

Youngstrom¹

2009

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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“…20 20 This disagreement is open and obvious even within advice literature to parents. See for example Kaplan (2011), Papolos and Papolos (2006). …”

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The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry

Hirshbein

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children (JCMHC) was a sprawling, multidisciplinary project that took shape in the years immediately after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Participants included child psychiatrists, educators, psychologists, social workers, philanthropists and other laypeople and professionals interested in the plight of children. While the original inspiration for the JCMHC was to address the potential for violence from disturbed children and adolescents, its findings and recommendations were an indictment of American society itself in which poor children went hungry, minority children were oppressed and there were not sufficient resources dedicated to the mental health of the nation's population of young people. The task forces and committees of the JCMHC spent significantly more time addressing prevention and mental health rather than mental illness. Two years into the work of the JCMHC, the leadership formed a committee to specifically examine issues related to race. The final report, published in popular book form as Crisis in Child Mental Health, arrived after the unraveling of the liberal consensus that had fueled President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. Most of the proposed solutions for government intervention were ignored by the Nixon administration. The focus on mental health and the willingness to take a critical look at the detrimental effects of racism had represented child psychiatry at that time. In the decades that followed, however, child psychiatrists turned away from issues about prevention, race and environment and instead focused on the problems of mental illness in individual children.

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The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder

Cited by 2 publications

References 10 publications

Definitional issues in bipolar disorder across the life cycle.

Definitional issues in bipolar disorder across the life cycle.

The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry

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