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Mental health crisis in children and adolescents: The hidden harm of COVID-19

Given the atypical scenario caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years and the changes it brought to daily routines, particular attention should be paid to the mental health of children and adolescents. During this period, child and adolescent psychiatrists faced challenges in their clinical practice and had to adjust to the new reality. There was a significant increase in consultation referrals due to eat...

The boy to whom things happen: case report of a condition once named “hysteria”

Introduction: Although banished from current mental disorders classifications, the condition formerly known as hysteria has clinical manifestations still puzzling to clinicians. Herein is briefly revised the historical concept of hysteria, as well as, psychological mechanisms underlying some of its current derivatives: conversive and dissociative disorders. Case report: A previously healthy 17-year-old boy pres...

The boy to whom things happen: case report of a condition once named “hysteria”

Introduction: Although banished from current mental disorders classifications, the condition formerly known as hysteria has clinical manifestations still puzzling to clinicians. Herein is briefly revised the historical concept of hysteria, as well as, psychological mechanisms underlying some of its current derivatives: conversive and dissociative disorders. Case report: A previously healthy 17-year-old boy pres...

The influence of socio-cultural features in the contents of delusions, football...

We describe the clinical cases of two 17 year-old patients presenting a first psychotic episode in which football was central to their delusional beliefs. These two patients were admitted with a five-month’s gap in an inpatient clinic after the intervention of the authorities who conducted them to the emergency room.Football has become the main global mass entertainment phenomenon of the contemporary European s...

Readmission to an Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit: Readmission Rates and R...

Introduction: Most mental disorders have a chronic evolution and therefore a certain amount of psychiatric readmissions are inevitable. Several studies indicate that over 25% of child and adolescent inpatients were readmitted within one year of discharge. Several risk factors for psychiatric readmissions have been reported in the literature, but the history of repeated readmissions is the most consistent risk f...

Descodificação dos comportamentos autolesivos sem intenção suicida - estudo qua...

Descodificação dos comportamentos autolesivos sem intenção suicida : estudo qua...

Resumo: Os comportamentos autolesivos sem intenção suicida devem ser vistos como um modo de expressão de um conflito ou dificuldade vivencial do adolescente e, por isso, carecem de uma “descodificação” atenta. O presente estudo qualitativo teve como principal objetivo conhecer os significados e funções subjacentes a estes comportamentos numa amostra clínica de adolescentes. A amostra foi constituída por 25 part...

O outro lado das birras: Alterações de comportamento na 1.ª infância

As alterações de comportamento são um sintoma, que pela disrupção que provocam na dinâmica familiar constituem um dos principais motivos de consulta pedopsiquiátrica na 1.ª infância (cerca de 1/3 do totaldos casos). Trata-se contudo de um sintoma que é comum a diversos quadros clínicos e que corresponde a diferentes situações do ponto de vista psicopatológico, cuja compreensão é fundamental para uma adequada in...