CAMS

Question 1

What are the aetiological factors under pining childhood psych?

Answer 1

• Genetics
• Drugs, alcohol, infections in utero
• Trauma
• Injury
• History of family mental illness
• Bullying
• Intelligence

Question 2

What are the most common emotional disorders in childhood and adolescence?

Answer 2

• GAD
• Separation anxiety
• Phobias
• OCD
• PTSD
• Conduct

Question 3

How does anxiety present in children?

Answer 3

Common at all ages but gets more common as you age.

Presentation changes with age e.g. fear of the dark in childhood, body anxiety in teenagers, kids can obsess over death at age around 10

Question 4

Why might a child refuse to go to school?

Answer 4

• Bullying
• Anxiety
• School refusal
• Parent victim of abuse

Question 5

How is anxiety in children managed?

Answer 5

• Behavioural therapy
• Psychotherapies e.g. psychodynamic, family
• Anxiolytics (only by specialists if patient is under the age of 18) and only Fluoxetine

Question 6

What is oppositional defiant disorder?

Answer 6

Kid who is…

• Uncooperative, unwilling to comply with requests, frequent temper tantrum
• Wilful, defiant, may also be aggressive
• Escalates if not managed
• Essentially not getting enough positive attention so gets into a loop of acting up to command negative attention

Question 7

What does ODD develop into?

Answer 7

Conduct Disorder.

Question 8

What are the two forms of conduct disorder?

Answer 8

Socialised: less serious, tends to be phasic

Unsocialised: link to criminality, antisocial personality disorder

Both linked to lying, stealing, truanting, violence to people and animals.