Is it possible to detect the mental illness in children early? If this illness is discovered in early stage what are the chances of complete recovery? What are the major alarming signs in early age?
Here is an examply of early screening of children in Finland :
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2009 Sep;68(4):386-93.
Screening infants with social and emotional problems: a pilot study of the brief infant toddler social and emotional assessment (BITSEA) in Northern Finland.
Haapsamo H, Ebeling H, Soini H, Joskitt L, Larinen K, Penninkilampi-Kerola V, Carter A, Moilanen I.
They included in their research: Fifty infants (18 months of age) and evaluated them through 3 questionnaires: (1) the Brief Infant and Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA), (2) the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and (3) the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI).
They concluded: The BITSEA questionnaire identifies developmental problems in the early stages and screens infants' social-emotional competence
A critical overview on reliability and validity of diagnostic criteria for identifying and assessing mental health problems and mental disorders in early childhood is given in:
- Egger HL & Emde RN. (2011). American Psychologist 66(2):95-106. Developmentally sensitive diagnostic criteria for mental health disorders in early childhood: The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders—IV, the research diagnostic criteria—preschool age, and the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood—Revised. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21142337; free available]
Anne Mette Skovgaard (www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Skovgaard/) wrote her thesis on "Mental health problems and psychopathology in infancy and early childhood".
- Skovgaard AM. (2010). Mental health problems and psychopathology in infancy and early childhood. An epidemiological study. Dan Med Bull. 57(10):B4193. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040689; free available]
Dear Ammar,
The CBCL Dysregulation profile can be diagnosed from the age of 4 years and potentially represents a developmental profile of major psychopathology in early adulthood (Bellani et al. 2012). The results of De Caluwé et al. (2013) showed that children assigned to the CBCL-DP class are at risk for elevated scores on a wide range of DSM-5 personality pathology features, including higher scores on hostility, risk taking, deceitfulness, callousness, grandiosity, irresponsibility, impulsivity and manipulativeness.
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greetings Egon
You might also look at: ZERO TO THREE (2016). Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood. Washington, DC:Author. Available at https://my.zerotothree.org/NC__Product?id=a1B1a0000023aqpEAA in print or digital versions.
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