Kovacs Questionnaire for Self-Assessment of Depression in Children
Are you worried about your child's mood? As parents, we sometimes notice changes…
Kovacs Questionnaire for Self-Assessment of Depression in Children
Are you worried about your child's mood? As parents, we sometimes notice changes in our children's behavior: they are more irritable, have lost interest in their favorite games, or seem tired for no apparent reason. It's normal to wonder, "Is this just a phase or something more?" The Kovacs Children's Depression Inventory…
RISK OF SUICIDE IN ADOLESCENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Joaquín Díaz Atienza Introduction In this review (1), the authors justify their literature review based on the importance of suicide in young people between the ages of 10 and 24 and the scarcity of research on patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). They believe that suicidal behavior in patients with ASD is underrepresented,…
PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR NON-PSYCHOANALYSTS. AFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD: 1) PRESENTATION
Joaquín Díaz Atienza As those of you who know me are aware, my training in child psychiatry took place in Paris, France, where the theoretical training was psychoanalytic, although during rotations through different hospitals we had the option of working in departments with this orientation or others. In this sense, while my academic training…
PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR NON-PSYCHOANALYSTS. AFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD: 2) SOME BASIC CONCEPTS.
Joaquín Díaz Atienza Introduction To understand the contributions of psychoanalysis to the psycho-affective development of childhood and adolescence, it is essential to grasp some fundamental concepts. Therefore, we will first define, very briefly, the topical, dynamic, and economic concepts of psychoanalytic theory and, subsequently, the concept of drive and its description…
SELF-HARM IN ADOLESCENCE. 1) CLINICAL DEFINITION
Joaquín Díaz Atienza, MD INTRODUCTION Self-harming behaviors are more frequent in adolescence than in other stages of life. A distinction is usually made between self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide. Although some researchers still maintain that there is an important link between them…
SELF-HARM IN ADOLESCENCE. 2) ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SUICIDAL BEHAVIORS. ETHOPATHOGENIC MODELS.
Joaquín Díaz Atienza, MD INTRODUCTION Most authors are interested in finding any connections between self-harm and suicidal behavior in children and adolescents. The reasons are obvious, since confirming or refuting this connection would have implications for treatment and, especially, for prevention. But does such a connection exist?
LORENZO MILANI: A POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY PEDAGOGY FOR THE POOREST
Joaquín Díaz Atienza (Updated: 12/19/22) My experience as a child psychiatrist in the public health system, and my special interest in children with learning difficulties, have given me the great opportunity and satisfaction of meeting Lorenzo Milani, a pedagogue and priest born in Florence in 1923 and who died in Barbiana in 1967. Lorenzo…
PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR NON-PSYCHOANALYSTS. AFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT: 3) LATENCY STAGE AND ADOLESCENCE
Joaquín Díaz Atienza Introduction I will briefly describe the key points of the latency stage and adolescence. While psychoanalysis has written surprisingly little about the latency stage, there are numerous works on adolescence, although they barely develop puberty, which, in my humble opinion, is a time of…
THE PSYCHIATRIST: A STIGMATIZED PROFESSIONAL. SOME STEREOTYPES
Joaquín Díaz Atienza INTRODUCTION The social stigma surrounding psychiatrists is closely linked to the stigma suffered by the mentally ill. Contrary to what we might think, the stigmatization of psychiatrists is not only maintained by the general population, but is also widespread in some (perhaps most) of the faculties of…
What is Child and Adolescent Psychiatry?
I began my work with a specialist degree in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, awarded in 1988 by Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), having previously specialized in General Psychiatry. It wasn't until 2021 that this specialization became available in Spain. Joaquín Díaz Atienza. Child psychiatry…
PSYCHIATRY: A STIGMATIZED SPECIALTY. SOME STEREOTYPES
As long as psychiatry, psychology, psychiatric nursing, and other mental health professions use their status as a service to the established power, the mentally ill person will remain marginalized. Joaquín Díaz Atienza INTRODUCTION As I did in the post about the stigmatization of psychiatrists, the opinions expressed here, which I share,…
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING THE IMAGE OF PSYCHIATRY
Joaquín Díaz Atienza INTRODUCTION In this third post, we present the recommendations made by the World Psychiatric Association to improve the public image of both the psychiatry specialty and psychiatrists. These are general measures that should be adapted to each specific geographical area: the situation is not the same in every country…
