(Written in 1997 for the Bulletin of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions) More than one-third of Turkey’s sixty million people are children and adolescents. To many, Turkey may be known as a tourist destination…
Until recent years, whenever a resident or a candidate for a residency program in Turkey pronounced the word “psychotherapy”, all but few members of the senior staff have considered them as unaware of the huge changes in neuroscience which, they…
Abstract Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorders among school-age children worldwide. In a more recent follow-up study, Biederman et al. found that 78% of children diagnosed with ADHD between the ages of 6-17 years continued to…
Abstract: Grief and dissociation after traumatic exposures are among the most important predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This article introduces the Traumatic Dissociation and Grief Scale (TDGS), a 23-item measure easily adminis- tered. The TDGS, the Child PTSD-Reaction Index…
*Written by Idil Yazgan, Yale Med., Class of 2024 There is a Turkish saying: “The healthy forget about the gift of health”. You don’t anticipate anything in your life to change, until you become sick. This is exactly how my…
(1991) I was an adult psychiatry resident at the time of this writing, about 25 years ago. Later on, I moved to the US where I finished my fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry along with a research training. I…
Commentary on: “CHILD PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND CLASSIFICATION: CONCEPTS, FINDINGS, CHALLENGES & POTENTIAL” by Sir Michael Rutter Mothers may be among the best diagnosticians of developmental and behavioral problems in young children. If not for the positive predictive power of the mother’s…
Some highlights from the speech; Earlier and repeated exposure to words in familiar contexts increases vocabulary. Words are the tools for faster and elaborate processing of the internal and external world. The initial steps for expanding vocabulary requires a lot…